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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 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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 history of dinorwic blue peris mountain centre video of dinorwic on vimeo v t e recreational dive sites reef diving regions akumal aliwal shoal marine protected area aliwal shoal amed bali anilao apo island apo reef arrecifes de cozumel national park bay of pigs belize barrier reef biscayne national park bohol sea bowie seamount bunaken bunaken national park cahuita national park calve island capurganá ċirkewwa cliff villa peninsula cozumel dhilba guuranda innes national park edmonds underwater park el ikhwa islands false bay gaya island għar qawqla gili islands great 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