Harlech Tramway
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 Harlech Tramway, 1887
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The Harlech Tramway was a 550 m long horse-drawn railway operated from July 1878 to 1886 from Harlech in Gwynedd in Wales to the west to the beach.
The tramway was laid by Godfrey Morton from Tremadog . The exact course and its gauge are not known, but it is shown on an Ordnance Survey map from 1887. It started at Quarry Cottage about 600 m south of the Harlech station of Cambrian Railways and led over an area where the Royal St. David's Golf Course is today in 2016 . On another map, the line is called Harlech Quarry . It was believed to have been used primarily to load ships lying on the beach with slate from the Noddfa Slate Quarry at low tide , although facilities for tourists were also being developed at the time, initially funded by the area's MP Samuel Holland .
The railway line is not identical to the World War II Harlech Military Railway , which ran north of Harlech.
Web links
- The inland end of the tramway from above. In: Britain from Above. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Alun Turner: Gwynedd's Lost Railways . Stenlake Publishing, Catrine, Ayrshire 2003, ISBN 978-1-84033-259-9 , pp. 49 .
- ^ Keith Turner: North Wales Tramways . David and Charles, Exeter 1979, ISBN 978-0-7153-7769-7 , pp. 150-152 .
- ↑ The Tramway on an Ordnance Survey map from 1887. In: National Library of Scotland. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .
- ↑ The railway line and neighboring railway lines. In: Rail Map Online. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .
- ^ Seascape Character Area 21: Dwyryd Estuary and Morfa Harlech.
- ↑ D. Rh. Gwyn: Llanbedr to Harlech Link Main - Archaeological Assessment (G1417). July 1996, p. 4.
- ↑ D. Clayron: The Harlech Tramway in The Narrow Gauge No. 84, pp. 20-21 (and correspondence in The Narrow Gauge No. 86, pp. 28-29).
Coordinates: 52 ° 51 '34.9 " N , 4 ° 6' 58.6" W.