Hendreddu quarry was a slate quarry about three miles west of Aberangell in Merioneth (now Gwynedd), North Wales, near Nant Hendreddu on the slopes of...
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Hendre-Ddu Tramway (redirect from Hendre Ddu quarry)
branch lines and spurs serving other quarries, local farms and the timber industry. The Hendreddu slate quarry opened in August 1868, on the north slope...
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that run across it. On the northern slope of the mountain lay the Hendreddu quarry which was connected to Aberangell by the Hendre-Ddu Tramway. Mynydd...
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the Bradwells buy the Hendreddu Slate quarry. Ownership of the quarry included the Hendre Ddu Tramway which linked the quarry to Aberangell railway station...
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Alexandra quarry was a slate quarry in North Wales, on the slopes of Moel Tryfan in north Gwynedd. It was part of one of the major slate quarrying regions...
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Mawddwy Railway (section Slate quarrying: 1790s – 1865)
connect Buckley's Hendreddu quarry to the Mawddwy Railway at Aberangell. Further quarries were connected to the tramway – Maes-y-gamfa quarry in 1886, Gartheiniog...
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stored in the Hendreddu Quarry, arriving by Great Western Railway trains and being taken by lorry along the tramway trackbed to the quarry. Quick, M E (2002)...
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The Cambrian quarry was a slate quarry, located to the west of Glyn Ceiriog in Denbighshire, North Wales. There was some small-scale extraction of slate...
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in the construction of narrow gauge railways and the ownership of slate quarries in North Wales during the second half of the 19th century. Hugh Beaver...
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