Glynrhonwy quarries

The Glynrhonwy quarries (also known as the Glyn-Rhonwy quarries) were two adjacent quarries in the Glynrhonwy area, north-west of Llanberis, in Carnarvonshire (now Gwynedd), Wales.

They were:

• Upper Glynrhonwy quarry, known locally as "Glyn Ganol" or "Middle Glyn", which operated from 1861 to 1930,^[1] and
• Lower Glynrhonwy quarry, known locally as "Captain Taylor's Quarry", which operated from the early 1700s to 25 January 1930.^[2]

The quarries operated internal railways of 2 ft (610 mm) gauge and were served by Glynrhonwy Siding off the LNWR's Caernarfon to Llanberis branch.^[3][4]

Lower Glynrhonwy was acquired by the Air Ministry in 1939 for munitions storage. It occupied the site until 1961.^[5] During the Second World War the site generated two extra trains per day on some occasions.^[6] The railway siding was taken out of use on 18 December 1956.^[7]

A 100 MW pumped storage project, marketed as a "quarry battery", received approval in 2017 and as at 2019 had reached the "detailed engineering design" stage.^[8][9]

References

Sources

• Boyd, James I.C. (1990) [1972]. Narrow Gauge Railways in North Caernarvonshire, Volume 1: The West. Headington: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-273-5. OCLC 650247345.
• Dunn, J.M. (October 1958). Cooke, B.W.C. (ed.). "The Afonwen Line-2". The Railway Magazine. 104 (690). London: Tothill Press Limited. ISSN 0033-8923.
• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2010). Bangor to Portmadoc: Including Three Llanberis Lines. Country Railway Routes. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 978-1-906008-72-7.

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