Narrow Gauge Railways
As the slate industry flourished in the nineteenth century many railway lines were built across Snowdonia to transport slate from the quarries to the ports to be exported to the four corners of the earth.
Most of these slate quarries have now closed with Blaenau Ffestiniog, Dyffryn Nantlle and Bethesda being the only remaining working sites – but that is not the case with the railways that hauled slate through Snowdonia’s countryside. Today, these railways are part of a completely different industry in Snowdonia - tourism.