Little Ormes Head Quarry tramway

Little Ormes Head Quarry tramway

Infobox rail
railroad_name=Little Ormes Head Quarry tramway
gauge=RailGauge|36
start_year=1889
end_year=1931
length=1 mile
hq_city=Porth Dyniewyd
locale=Wales
successor=Abandoned

The Little Ormes Head Quarry tramway was an industrial narrow gauge railway operating at three levels within the extensive limestone quarry on the Penrhyn Bay side of the Little Orme at Llandudno on the North Wales coast.

History

Locomotives

References

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ee also

* British industrial narrow gauge railways


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