Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales' has mentioned 'Railway' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| [25] In 1798, Lord Penrhyn constructed the horse-drawn Llandegai Tramway to transport slates from Penrhyn Quarry, and in 1801 this was replaced by the narrow gauge Penrhyn Quarry Railway, one of the earliest railway lines. | WIKI |
| [26] The Padarn Railway was opened in 1824 as a tramway for the Dinorwig Quarry, and converted to a railway in 1843. | WIKI |
| The Nantlle Railway was built in 1828 and was operated using horse-power to carry slate from several slate quarries in the Nantlle Valley to the harbour at Caernarfon. | WIKI |
| [28] The Ffestiniog Railway line was constructed between 1833 and 1836 to transport slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to the coastal town of Porthmadog, where it was loaded onto ships. | WIKI |
| The railway was graded so that loaded slate waggons could be run by gravity downhill all the way from Blaenau Ffestiniog to the port. | WIKI |
| In 1843, the Padarn Railway became the first quarry railway to use steam locomotives, and the transport of slate by train rather than by ship was made easier when the London and North Western Railway built branches to connect Port Penrhyn and Port Dinorwic to the main line in 1852. | WIKI |
| [27] The Corris Railway opened as the horse-worked Corris, Machynlleth & River Dovey Tramroad in 1859, connecting the slate quarries around Corris and Aberllefenni with wharves on the estuary of the River Dyfi. | WIKI |
| [33] The Ffestiniog Railway converted to steam in 1863, and the Talyllyn Railway was opened in 1866 to serve the Bryn Eglwys quarry above the village of Abergynolwyn. | WIKI |
| [34] The Cardigan Railway was opened in 1873, partly to carry slate traffic, and enabled the Glogue quarry in Pembrokeshire to grow to employ 80 men. | WIKI |
| The Deep Mine, opened in 1979, is accessed by Britain's steepest passenger railway, with a gradient of 1:1.8 or 30xc2xb0. | WIKI |
| A number of the railways which carried the slates to the ports have been restored as tourist attractions, for example the Ffestiniog Railway and the Talyllyn Railway. | WIKI |
| [89] The areas included in the nomination include Penrhyn quarry and the Ogwen Valley,[90] Dinorwig quarry,[91] Nantlle Valley,[92] Gorseddau and Prince of Wales quarries,[93] Ffestiniog and Porthmadog, including the Ffestiniog Railway,[94] and Abergynolwyn and Bryn Eglwys quarry, including the Talyllyn Railway. | WIKI |