Padarn Railway

The Padarn Railway was a narrow gauge railway in North Wales built to an unusual 4 foot gauge, opened on 3 March 1843 to replace the earlier Dinorwic Railway. It transported slate seven miles from Dinorwic Quarry to Port Dinorwic near Llanberis, running horse drawn at first before converting to steam power on 23 November 1848; formally titled the Dinorwic Quarries Railway, it was informally known as the Padarn Railway and closed officially on 3 November 1961, with part of its route later reopened in 1971 as the Llanberis Lake Railway. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/