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The Railway Museum, Penrhyn Castle, Bangor, Caernarfonshire, Wales
Some steam locomotives the largest of which is 'Haydock'. The Penrhyn slate quarry at Bethesda was closely associated with the development of industrial narrow-gauge railways and in particular the Penrhyn Quarry Railway which was one of the earliest industrial railways in the world.
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A saloon coach, built in around 1896 and was used by quarry officials on the Padarn Railway.
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Beckton Locomotive No.1 is a 4ft 8.5 inch gauge 0-4-0 Well Tank locomotive.
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Amanda at the controls of 'Charles' - one of the steam locomotives. I'll give this journey a miss if you don't mind.
Charles, a saddle tank locomotive, has close connections with Penrhyn being one of the so called 'main line' engines used at the Penrhyn Quarry. Built by Hunslet Engine Co in 1882, Charles worked until the 1950s.
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'Fire Queen' was one of the first two engines to be used on the Padarn Railway immediately after it opened in 1849. The railway was opened in 1840 using horses to pull the slate trains and it replaced the even earlier Dinorwic Railway which opened in 1824.
'Fire Queen' was built by marine engineers A. Horlock and C. The locomotive was based on an 1847 patent of Thomas Crampton, which specified a locomotive with driving wheels positioned at the ends of the boiler driven by steeply inclined cylinders placed between the wheels. The locomotives lacked a frame, and the wheels and cylinders were attached directly to the boiler. 'Fire Queen' continued working until the late 1880s.
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