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Baldwin Locomotive Works
The Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American manufacturer of railroad locomotives from 1825 to 1956.
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Bangor, Gwynedd
Bangor is a city in Gwynedd, northwest Wales.
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Bethesda, Gwynedd
Bethesda is a town on the River Ogwen and the A5 road on the edge of Snowdonia, in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, colloquially called Pesda by the locals.
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Bressingham Steam and Gardens
Bressingham Steam & Gardens is a steam museum and gardens located at Bressingham (adjacent to a Wyevale garden centre), west of Diss in Norfolk, England.
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British narrow-gauge railways
There were more than a thousand British narrow-gauge railways ranging from large, historically significant common carriers to small, short-lived industrial railways.
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Cable railway
A cable railway (also known as an incline or inclined plane) is a steeply graded railway that uses a cable, rope or chain wound about a cable winch system (similar to a ski lift mechanism) powered by a stationary engine to haul trains on adversely steep grades.
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Caernarfon
Caernarfon is a royal town, community, and port in Gwynedd, Wales, with a population of 9,615.
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Catrine
Catrine is a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland which was formerly a centre of cotton manufacture.
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Chert
Chert is a fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline silica, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).
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Chester and Holyhead Railway
The Chester and Holyhead Railway was incorporated out of a proposal to link Holyhead, the traditional port for the Irish Mail, with London by way of the existing Chester and Crewe Railway, and what is now the West Coast Main Line.
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Clophill
Clophill is a village and civil parish located in the Flit river valley, Bedfordshire, England.
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De Winton
De Winton & Co (1854-1901) were engineers in Caernarfon, Wales.
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Dinorwic Quarry
The Dinorwic Slate Quarry is a large former slate quarry, now home to the Welsh National Slate Museum, located between the villages of Llanberis and Dinorwig in North Wales.
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F&W Media International
F&W Media International Limited, formerly known as David & Charles Publishers (also styled as David and Charles), is a publisher of illustrated non-fiction books, eBooks, digital products, craft patterns and online education courses.
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Felin Fawr Slate Works
Felin Fawr Works is a former slate works to Penrhyn Quarry Railway in Bethesda, Wales.
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Ffestiniog Railway
The Ffestiniog Railway (Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a narrow-gauge heritage railway, located in Gwynedd, Wales.
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Garndolbenmaen
Garndolbenmaen, known colloquially as Garn, is a village in the county of Gwynedd, Wales.
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Hunslet Engine Company
The Hunslet Engine Company was founded in 1864 in Hunslet, Leeds, England.
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Ian Allan Publishing
Ian Allan Publishing is a UK publisher, established in 1942, which specialised in transport books.
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Lôn Las Ogwen
Lôn Las Ogwen is a cycle route in the National Cycle Network which runs south from the NCN 5 at Porth Penrhyn on the north coast of Wales to Llyn Ogwen in Snowdonia.
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Llanrwst
Llanrwst (meaning "church or parish of Saint Grwst") is a small market town and community on the A470 road and the River Conwy, in Conwy County Borough, Wales.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Moseley Railway Trust
The Moseley Railway Trust is a major British collection of industrial narrow gauge locomotives and other equipment.
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Narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.
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Newton Abbot
Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England, with a population of 25,556.
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Oxford
Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.
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Padarn Railway
The Padarn Railway was a narrow gauge railway line in North Wales, built to the unusual gauge of.
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Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum
The Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum is a museum of industrial railway equipment, located at Penrhyn Castle near Bangor in Wales.
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Penrhyn Quarry
The Penrhyn Slate Quarry is a slate quarry located near Bethesda in north Wales.
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Port Penrhyn
Port Penrhyn (Porth Penrhyn) is a harbour located just east of Bangor in north Wales at the confluence of the River Cegin with the Menai Strait.
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Shepperton
Shepperton is a suburban village in the borough of Spelthorne, in the county of Surrey in England, southwest of Charing Cross, London, bounded by the Thames to the south and much of the east and which is in the northwest bisected by the M3 motorway.
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Slate industry in Wales
The existence of a slate industry in Wales is attested since the Roman period, when slate was used to roof the fort at Segontium, now Caernarfon.
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Stephen Lewin
Stephen Lewin or Stephen Samuel Lewin was an architect, artist, civil engineer and an iron-founder, who was a builder of steamboats and steam locomotives.
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Talyllyn Railway
The Talyllyn Railway (Rheilffordd Talyllyn) is a narrow gauge preserved railway in Wales running for from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn.
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The Railway Magazine
The Railway Magazine is a monthly British railway magazine, aimed at the railway enthusiast market, that has been published in London since July 1897.
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The Spooners of Porthmadog
The Spooners of Porthmadog refers to the Spooner family of Porthmadog, North Wales who made important contributions to the development of narrow gauge railways both locally and throughout the world.
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Track gauge
In rail transport, track gauge is the spacing of the rails on a railway track and is measured between the inner faces of the load-bearing rails.
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Transportation Corps
The Transportation Corps was established 31 July 1942 by Executive Order 9082.
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Truro
Truro (Truru) is a city and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.
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War Department Light Railways
The War Department Light Railways were a system of narrow gauge trench railways run by the British War Department in World War I. Light railways made an important contribution to the Allied war effort in the First World War, and were used for the supply of ammunition and stores, the transport of troops and the evacuation of the wounded.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrhyn_Quarry_Railway
