Gorseddau Junction And Portmadoc Railway
- Gorseddau Junction And Portmadoc Railway
The Gorseddau Junction And Portmadoc Railway is a defunct Welsh tramway.
It was originally the Tremadoc Tramway, which carried mineral traffic before 1845, and had a gauge of three feet. This was absorbed into the Gorseddau Tramway which came into being in around 1856. The operation was quite small, due to the low output and wagons were supplied by the Festiniog.
The line subsequently became the basis for the Gorseddau Junction and Portmadoc Railways, which was incorporated by an act of Parliament in 1872. This altered the course from the now closed Gorseddau quarry, to the Prince of Wales quarry. It also coincided with a change in gauge to convert|2|ft|m|sing=on.
The connection with the Festiniog Railway occurred on the wharves of Portmadoc (long since removed), but to reach this point, had made use of the Croesor & Beddgelert Tram Railway Co. Ltd, utilising a short stretch of their track from the gas works site—soon to be the reopened Welsh Highland Railway route.
Traffic was never very large, and it ceased working around 1892, at which time its only locomotive, Pert, was sold to another quarry.
ee also
* Gorseddau Junction and Portmadoc Railway
References
Boyd, James I.C., Narrow Gauge Railways in South Caernarvonshire. ISBN 0-85361-365-6
External links
* [http://whr.bangor.ac.uk/gorseddau.htm Surviving features and quarries served]
* [http://www.frheritage.org.uk/wiki/Gorseddau_Junction_And_Portmadoc_Railways_Company Photographic record of visit to Ynys y Pandy by original author]
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