Little Ormes Head Quarry tramway

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Little Ormes Head Quarry tramway
Locale Wales
Dates of operation 1889 – 1931
Track gauge 3 ft (914 mm)
Length 1 mile
Headquarters Porth Dyniewyd

The Little Ormes Head Quarry tramway was an industrial narrow gauge railway operating at three levels within the extensive limestone quarry on the Penrhyn Bay side of the Little Orme at Llandudno on the North Wales coast.

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[edit] History

[edit] Locomotives

Name Builder Wheel arrangement Date Works number Notes
Mona Hughes Foundry 0-4-0VB
Little Orme Manning Wardle 0-4-0ST 1873 478 Built for the Leeds Corporation Water Works at Swinsty Reservoir
Ellesmere Kerr Stuart 0-4-2ST 1912 1255
Garth Kerr Stuart 0-4-2ST 1914 1257
Penrhyn Kerr Stuart 0-4-2ST 1918 3092 Scrapped 1940
No. 1 Sentinel 4wVB 1926 6256
No. 2 Sentinel 4wVB 1926 6255
No. 3 Sentinel 4wVB 1926 6257

[edit] References

    • Boyd, James I.C. (1990). Narrow Gauge Railways in North Caernarvonshire, Volume 3. The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0853613281.

    [edit] See also

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