This was a near 100 yard tunnel that once played a vital role in the area's slate trade. The Dinowic Quarries Railway - also ...

Back in the late 60s some friends and I would follow the disused narrow gauge lines that would bring the slate down from the quarries. "There were many tunnels leading into the mines but we never ...

A ‘LOST’ tunnel from nearly 200 years ago has been discovered under a UK village. The tunnel has been out of use since the ...

The tunnel, built in 1824, was once an integral part of the slate trade. Part of the wider ... friends when they would follow the disused narrow gauge lines in the 1960s. He said: "There were ...

The Ffestiniog Railway is the world’s oldest narrow-gauge railway ... with a unique tour of the Llechwedd slate quarry. Their robust, former army truck will take you to a 1,400 ft height ...

There are also remains of the trackways used with the quarries. Transporting the slate to the ports and harbours was undertaken using narrow gauge railways, some of which survive as for example the ...