Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum

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The Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum (Template:Langx) is a museum of industrial railway equipment, located at Penrhyn Castle near Bangor in Wales.

In the nineteenth century, Penrhyn Castle was the home of the Pennant family (from 1840, the Douglas-Pennants), owners of the Penrhyn slate quarry at Bethesda. The quarry was closely associated with the development of industrial narrow-gauge railways, and in particular the Penrhyn Quarry Railway (PQR), one of the earliest industrial railways in the world. The PQR ran close to Penrhyn Castle, and when the castle was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1951 a small museum of industrial railway relics was created in the stable block.

The first locomotive donated to the museum was Charles, one of the three remaining steam locomotives working on the PQR. Over the years a number of other historically significant British narrow-gauge locomotives and other artifacts have been added to the collection.[1]

In early 2024, it was announced that the majority of the locomotives were to be moved to new homes, with the railway museum to become a new "Industrial Penrhyn" experience.[2]

Locomotives

Name Image Gauge Builder Type Date Works number Notes
Charles File:Charles@Penrhyn Castle.png Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Hunslet 0-4-0Template:Whyte suffix 1882 283 Worked on the Penrhyn Quarry Railway. To be retained as part of the planned "Industrial Penrhyn" museum.[2]
Hugh Napier File:Hugh Napier at Porthmadog Harbour Station (geograph 4145089).jpg Hunslet 0-4-0Template:Whyte suffix 1904 855 ex-Penrhyn Quarry locomotive, moved to the Ffestiniog Railway and restored to working order at Boston Lodge in 2012.[3]
Fire Queen File:Locomotive "Fire Queen".jpg Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". A. Horlock and Co 0-4-0Template:Whyte suffix tender 1848 Worked on the Padarn Railway. Moved to the Vale of Rheidol Railway in 2024.[2]
Watkin Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". De Winton 0-4-0Template:Whyte suffix 1893 ex-Penmaenmawr & Welsh Granite Co.
Kettering Furnaces No. 3 File:Kettering Furnaces No 3.jpg Black, Hawthorn & Co 0-4-0Template:Whyte suffix 1885 859 Ex-Kettering Ironstone Railway.[4] Donated to the Waterford and Suir Valley Railway in 2024.[5]
No. 1 File:Well tank Locomotive - geograph.org.uk - 7048385.jpg Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Neilson and Company 0-4-0Template:Whyte suffix 1870 1561 ex Beckton Gas Works railway. Moved to the Museum of Scottish Railways in early 2024.[6]
Hawarden File:Locomotive Hawarden - geograph.org.uk - 7048387.jpg Hudswell Clarke 0-4-0Template:Whyte suffix 1899 526 ex Globe Ironworks, Stalybridge Donated to the Middleton Railway in 2024 where it is now on display.[7]
Vesta File:Vesta, a side tank locomotive - geograph.org.uk - 7048537.jpg Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0Template:Whyte suffix 1916 1223 ex Hawarden Bridge steel works Donated to the East Lancashire Railway in 2024 and is now on display in the Bury Transport Museum.[8]
Haydock File:Penrhyn Castle museum Exhibit.jpg Robert Stephenson & Co[9] 0-6-0Template:Whyte suffix 1879 2309 Ex Haydock Collieries Railway. Moved to the Isle of Wight Steam Railway in 2024.[10]

See also

References

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