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permanently it was however decided that some final work could be done by clearing some of the waste from the garret fall this involved making an access road for more modern quarry vehicles across some of the terraces to the rockfall this amount of slate won by this method was small and all production stopped by 1969 at the receiver s instruction a public auction was arranged intended to pay off some of the quarry s debts the auctions were held on 12 and 13 december 1969 the auctioneer s national advertisement in the guardian 29 november 1969 the event was described as an auction sale of machine tools and stocks four hunslet locos and engine and boat fittings the locomotives referred to lots 613 616 were dolbadarn red damsel wild aster and irish mail before the bidding started it was announced that gwynedd county council had placed a preservation order on the gilfach ddu workshops and many items within it transport edit main articles dinorwic railway and padarn railway the vivian transporter incline completed in 1873 and restored in 1998 the transporters run on 5 ft 6 in 1 676 mm gauge tracks the original connection between the quarry and the company s port at y felinheli was the dinorwic railway a 2 ft 610 mm gauge line built in 1824 this was worked by horses and it soon became apparent that it was inadequate for the traffic generated by the quarry a number of surveys of alternative routes were undertaken by members of the spooner family the result of which was the construction of a new railway which opened in 1848 the 4 ft 1 219 mm gauge padarn railway which operated as the quarry s main transport link until closure in 1961 2 tramways edit the first use of railways at the quarry came around 1800 when the first internal tramways were in use these first lines were worked using horse and hand power for the next seventy years the tramway system grew until it reached the point where more powerful traction was required the first steam locomotives used were small vertical boiler locos supplied by de winton s of caernarfon in 1870 the first locomotive supplied by the hunslet engine company arrived at the quarry and the majority of the locomotives that worked at dinorwic were eventually supplied by hunslet 2 between 1935 and 1949 the quarry acquired 22 light internal combustion rail tractors for use on the levels half of these were new the other half second hand their survival rate did not match those of the steam locomotives and when the quarry closed in 1969 only three still survived although a nominal two foot gauge the actual gauge between the rails at dinorwic was 1 ft 10 3 4 in 578 mm 6 in common with its neighbour penrhyn but fractionally narrower than the public lines of the ffestiniog railway or north wales narrow gauge railway which were 1 ft 11 1 2 in 597 mm locomotives edit early steam locomotives were used by the quarry and built by de winton co but from 1870 the quarry acquired most of its locomotives new from the hunslet engine company of leeds these were purpose built initially using a series of hunslet general unclassified designs but after 1886 these fell into one of three classes alice port larger and designed primarily to work at port dinorwic although michael never did tram or mills worked on marshaling duties on the padarn peris tram line which linked the quarry mills to the padarn railway for transportation to port dinorwic orig name number later name image builder year acquired year sold notes wellington de winton c1870 1898 harriet de winton 1874 pre 1895 peris de winton 1875 pre 1895 victoria de winton 1876 pre 1895 padarn de winton c1898 dinorwic charlie hunslet 1870 by 1919 george minstrel park hunslet 1877 by 1919 louisa hunslet 1877 by 1989 sybil w g bagnall 1906 restoration project taking place at the west lancashire light railway no 70 barclay sons 1931 1962 elidir avonside engine 1933 1966 velinheli hunslet 1886 1965 alice class now preserved at the launceston steam railway currently on loan to the ffestiniog railway 7 alice king of the scarlets hunslet 1889 1965 alice class preserved at the statfold barn railway enid red damsel later elidir hunslet 1889 1969 alice class no 1 rough pup hunslet 1891 1968 alice class preserved at the ngm no 2 cloister hunslet 1892 1962 alice class preserved at the statfold barn railway the first bernstein hunslet 1892 1967 alice class the second covertcoat hunslet 1898 1964 alice class wellington george b hunslet 1898 1965 alice class now at the bala lake railway 8 no 3 holy war hunslet 1902 1968 alice class no 4 alice hunslet 1902 1972 alice class no 5 maid marian briefly covertcoat hunslet 1903 1966 alice class no 6 irish mail hunslet 1903 1969 alice class preserved at west lancashire light railway no 7 wild aster now thomas bach hunslet 1904 1969 alice class now running on the llanberis lake railway no 1 lady joan hunslet 1922 1967 port class preserved at bredgar and wormshill light railway no 2 dolbadarn hunslet 1922 1969 port class michael hunslet 1932 1965 port class preserved at the statford barn railway vaenol jerry m hunslet 1895 1967 tram mills class now at the hollycombe steam collection port dinorwic cackler hunslet 1898 1966 tram mills class port dinorwic edit this section needs more citations please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed october 2023 learn how and when to remove this message port dinorwic y felinheli was initially only a tidal creek on the menai strait s mainland shore called aber pwll moel y don or felin heli the assheton smith family of vaynol established a tiny wharf on a marshy inlet to convey the output of its dinorwic quarry in 1793 which marked the beginning of the development of the dock system and related buildings it was located directly downstream of a tide powered grain mill that gave the region its welsh name y felinheli and replaced an earlier setup where slate was lightered into the menai straits from 500 metres to the southwest slates from dinorwic quarries were hoisted onto lighters and transported to ships anchored further offshore in the menai strait until the quays were opened in 1809 allowing ships to be loaded directly the name port dinorwic was being used by 1824 and in this year a tramroad from dinorwic quarries the dinorwic railway was opened in 1848 a steam operated railway on a new track replaced the tramroad and operated until 1961 the padarn railway or the dinorwic quarries railway as it was also known belonged to the quarry company it was constructed with a four foot gauge but transported slate waggons with a nominal two foot centre to centre gauge from the gilfach ddu quarry yard to penscoins at the top of the escarpment with a view of port dinorwic from the transporters they were unloaded here and lowered down a self acting incline to the port where locomotives moved them to the quays despite the fact that these locos were close to but not identical to those employed in the quarry they were occasionally moved between places the buffer beams on the port locos caused particular difficulties when trying to get them up the inclines to the higher levels of the quarry but it was achieved docks and quays were constructed in 1809 lock gates were added in 1828 dry docks and engineering facilities were built in the 1830s a new outer basin was finished in 1854 an outer lock was added in 1897 and a new sea wall was built in 1905 between the harbour and basin to extend the quays in 1852 a standard gauge extension of the chester and holyhead railway reached port dinorwic although nearly 90 of the slate continued to be transported by sea exclusively in rented vessels the dry dock was a unique facility in north wales making it very valuable to coastal shipping while the vessels were there the engineering shops of the dry dock co also were looking to have merddin emrys s boiler repaired with new copper fireboxes and retubing the fr co got estimates from avonside engine company of bristol and the quarry engineering works at port dinorwic the boiler was eventually sent to bristol to get the work done in 1892 the first steamship owned by a quarry was purchased port dinorwic was never the fully developed maritime community of the nineteenth century that porthmadog was in part because it shared ownership with the quarry and was devoted to its commerce for instance it lacked a sizable shipbuilding sector and the surveyor for ship insurance in port dinorwic worked for the portmadoc mutual ship insurance society the organisation has no less than thirteen surveyors working in porthmadog other visiting steamers that were not owned by the quarry were nevertheless crucial after the first world war the ships owned by dinorwic quarry were underrepresented in a 1925 photograph of coastal steamers post closure edit national slate museum edit welsh slate museum located in gilfach ddu following closure the quarry s workshop at gilfach ddu was acquired by the then caernarfonshire county council who now lease the building to the national museum and galleries of wales it now houses the national slate museum equipment from the internal quarry railway was used to build the llanberis lake railway over part of the trackbed of the padarn railway the quarry has been partly used by the dinorwig power station a pumped storage hydroelectric scheme many of the hunslet locomotives have been preserved on several of britain s narrow gauge heritage railways more recently new build versions of the class have been built by the exmoor steam railway and by a new hunslet company at the statfold barn railway film location edit in 1987 part of the film willow was shot in the dinorwic quarry on the lower terraces next to the pumped storage scheme scenes from the 1994 film street fighter were filmed on the south side of watford gap near the matilda hole 9 clash of the titans was filmed in the quarry in 2009 10 english art rock band everything everything filmed the music video for their song cold reactor at the quarry in 2023 11 it has also been used as a filming location for house of the dragon 12 rock climbing edit rock climbing in the dinorwic quarry johnny dawes on poetry pink e5 6b rainbow slab angus killie on the meltdown 9a twll mawr the dinorwic quarry has also become a major british rock climbing venue particularly the sections of twll mawr meaning big hole vivian quarry rainbow slab and australia famous british rock climbers such as johnny dawes have created well known extreme test pieces such as the traditional climbing route the quarryman e8 7a in the twll mawr section and the sport climbing route the very big the very small 8b 5 14a in the rainbow slab section of the dinorwic quarry 13 the most famous route is stevie haston s comes the dervish e3 5c in the vivian quarry section 14 and the hardest route is currently james mchaffie s sport climbing route the meltdown at 9a 5 14d previously bolted and attempted by dawes and jerry moffatt also in the twll mawr section 13 climbing in the vivian quarry has been prohibited by its owners following significant and frequent rockfalls in 2020 2022 and after 15 16 17 scuba diving edit the vivian quarry section was also used for diving with good visibility and depths ranging from 6 18 metres 20 59 ft a platform at 6 metres 20 ft plus flooded buildings boats a van and a gnome garden citation needed the leaseholder scuba scape had planned to re open with new diving activities in summer of 2025 18 19 20 hiking edit zig zag path leading up to dinorwic quarry a well maintained hiking path with stairs and a zig zag trail leads into the quarry site from the national slate museum carpark in 2020 foot access to vivian quarry only one part of the site was closed for visitors due to several rockfalls in the area 15 further rockfall in 2022 permanently closed off all remaining routes into the vivian quarry 16 17 in spring of 2025 a surge of visitors brought by tiktok viral videos overwhelmed the site 21 and cctv was installed to deter trespassing 22 with some visitors requiring rescue after trespassing off trail 23 in june of 2025 there was an additional rockfall in one of the prohibited areas 12 references edit wikimedia commons has media related to dinorwic quarry underwater diving portal jones r merfyn 1981 the north wales quarrymen 1874 1922 studies in welsh history 4 university of wales press isbn 0 7083 0776 0 1 2 3 4 carrington d c and rushworth t f 1972 slates to velinheli the railways and tramways of dinorwic slate quarries llanberis and the llanberis lake railway maid marian locomotive fund three walks offering the best views of snowdon royal victoria hotel llanberis retrieved 13 august 2025 g a s vanol 4190 ordnance survey caernarvonshire 25 plan 1914 industrial railways dinorwic quarries and padarn railway narrow gauge railway museum archived from the original on 16 may 2021 o mahoney charlie 19 february 2018 a new boiler for velinheli launceston steam railway archived from the original on 6 february 2022 hunslet company to work on 1898 hunslet loco the railway magazine vol 151 ipc business press 2005 must see film and tv locations in wales visit wales 2022 archived from the original on 10 november 2021 clash of the titans to be filmed at llanberis quarry daily post 18 june 2009 archived from the original on 25 september 2020 everything everything 26 october 2023 everything everything cold reactor official video retrieved 6 january 2025 via youtube 1 2 house of the dragon quarry location collapses in rockslide bbc news 25 july 2025 retrieved 13 august 2025 1 2 geldard jack 10 july 2012 james mchaffie climbs the meltdown 9a slab ukclimbing retrieved 7 february 2022 fortune sean 17 july 2019 comes the dervish e3 5c ukclimbing retrieved 7 february 2022 1 2 news major rockfall shuts vivian quarry www ukclimbing com 27 november 2020 retrieved 13 august 2025 1 2 ukc logbook comes the dervish www ukclimbing com retrieved 13 august 2025 1 2 ukc logbook comes the dervish www ukclimbing com retrieved 13 august 2025 forgrave andrew 22 april 2025 world first underwater museum and gaming site to open at famous slate quarry north wales live retrieved 13 august 2025 scuba scape at vivian quarry in llanberis to launch new experiences north wales pioneer 24 april 2025 retrieved 13 august 2025 vivian quarry services thebmc co uk retrieved 13 august 2025 forgrave andrew 22 april 2025 tiktok over tourism at beauty spot leaves villagers besieged north wales live retrieved 13 august 2025 hughes owen 30 june 2025 cctv installed at famous slate quarry after trespass incidents north wales live retrieved 13 august 2025 tiktok and instagram beauty spots creating work for rescue teams bbc news 29 july 2025 retrieved 13 august 2025 sources edit penmorfa article on dinorwic narrow gauge railways in north caernarvonshire volume 3 boyd james i c 1986 the oakwood press isbn 0 85361 328 1 external links edit penmorfa a brief 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