Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum
.jpg) Steam locomotive Charles of the Penrhyn Quarry Railway |
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Llandygai , Gwynedd , Wales 
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The Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum is a railway museum in Penrhyn Castle near Bangor in Wales .
In the 19th century, the Pennant family, which was called Douglas-Pennant from 1840 and owned the slate quarry of Penrhyn near Bethesda , lived in Penrhyn Castle.
The quarry was opened up early on with a narrow-gauge railway , the Penrhyn Quarry Railway (PQR). This ran near Penrhyn Castle. That is why a small works railway museum was set up there in 1951 in the former horse stables .
The first locomotive to be bequeathed to the museum was the Charles steam locomotive , one of the three remaining steam locomotives from the PQR. Over time, the collection was expanded to include additional exhibits.
Locomotives
| Surname | Gauge | Manufacturer | Wheel alignment | Construction year | Serial no. | Remarks |
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| Charles | 1 foot 10¾ inches (578 mm) | Hunslet | 0-4-0 ST | 1882 | 283 | Originally Penrhyn Quarry Railway |
| Hugh Napier | Hunslet | 0-4-0ST | 1904 | 855 | Originally Penrhyn Quarry Railway, operational | |
| Fire Queen | 4 feet (1219 mm) | Horlocks | 0-4-0 | 1848 | Originally Padarn Railway | |
| Watkin | 3 feet (914 mm) | De Winton | 0-4-0VB | 1893 | Originally Penmaenmawr & Welsh Granite Co. | |
| Kettering Furnaces No. 3 | Black, Hawthorn & Co | 0-4-0ST | 1885 | 859 | Originally Kettering Ironstone Railway | |
| No. 1 | 4 feet 8½ inches (1435 mm) | Neilson and Company | 0-4-0 | 1870 | 1561 | Originally Beckton Gas Works Railway |
| Hawarden | Hudswell Clarke | 0-4-0ST | 1899 | 526 | ex Globe Ironworks, Stalybridge | |
| Vesta | Hudswell Clarke | 0-6-0 T | 1916 | 1223 | Originally Hawarden Bridge Steel Works | |
| Haydock | Josiah Evans / Richard Evans and Co. | 0-6-0T | 1879 | 2309 | Originally Haydock Foundry, Haydock |
literature
- Penrhyn Castle Industrial Railway Museum , 3rd edition, The National Trust , 1982.
Web links
Commons : Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
