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    The Corris Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Corris) is a narrow gauge preserved railway based in Corris on the border between Merionethshire (now Gwynedd) and...
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    3 February 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2016. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Corris. Corris Railway website Corris Institute Community Council...
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    Sir Haydn (locomotive) (category Corris Railway)
    quarries of Bryn Eglwys, only a few miles from Corris. It was built to the same gauge as the Corris Railway, but unlike that line used steam traction from...
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  • the line was taken over in 1951. Two ex-Corris Railway locomotives were then purchased from British Railways, and subsequent additions have brought the...
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    unusual feature for a public railway which is shared (albeit for different reasons) with the neighbouring Corris Railway. Tyler also required that improvements...
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    Edward Thomas (locomotive) (category Corris Railway)
    quarries of Bryn Eglwys, only a few miles from Corris. It was built to the same gauge as the Corris Railway, but unlike that line used steam traction from...
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    Club. First steamed on 8 July 2017. Corris Railway No. 7 0-4-2ST, completed in 2005 for the revived Corris Railway by Winson Engineering and Drayton Designs...
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    Jones was erected on its site. Esgairgeiliog railway station was a station on the narrow-gauge Corris Railway, although it was the opposite side of the Afon...
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    The Corris Railway's Grand Tour was a tourist service that ran between 1886 and 1930. It involved a journey on the Corris Railway, a charabanc connection...
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    Ffestiniog Railway, the Corris Railway and the Talyllyn Railway were common carriers, while others like the Penrhyn Quarry Railway and the Padarn Railway were...
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    Llanfair Light Railway. Retrieved 20 March 2021. Cozens, Lewis (1949). The Corris Railway (1972 reprint ed.). Loughborough: The Corris Railway Society. White...
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    Abercwmeiddaw quarry (category Corris Railway)
    located at Corris Uchaf about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Machynlleth, in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. The quarry was connected to the Corris Railway via the...
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    Aberllefenni quarries (category Corris Railway)
    (1994). Slate Quarrying at Corris. Gwasg Carreg Gwalch. ISBN 0-86381-279-1. The Corris Railway Society (1988). A Return to Corris. Avon-Anglia Publications...
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  • horse-hauled Upper Corris Tramway from the slate quarries around Corris Uchaf met the main line (opened in 1859) of the Corris Railway coming from Aberllefenni...
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    were found in the quarries feeding the Ffestiniog Railway, the Talyllyn Railway and the Corris Railway amongst others. The Ashley Planes were used to transship...
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  • the outer planets Corris Railway Grand Tour, tourist service in Wales between 1886 and 1930, connecting the Corris and Talyllyn Railways Search for "Grand...
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    (457 mm) wooden flat body for carrying explosives. Donated in 1976. Corris Railway Mail Wagon, 2 ft 3 in (686 mm), used for carrying mail by gravity down...
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    purchased the Corris Railway from the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company Ltd, together with associated road services and vehicles. Corris Railway (4 August...
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  • Colne Valley Railway, Castle Hedingham, Essex Epping Ongar Railway, Ongar, Essex Mid-Norfolk Railway, Dereham, Norfolk Mid Suffolk Light Railway, Brockford...
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    The Mid Sodor Railway acknowledges the Ffestiniog and Corris Railway and the Little Western bears a resemblance to the South Devon Railway.[citation needed]...
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    gauge, all of them in Wales - the Corris Railway, the short-lived Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway and the Talyllyn Railway. Coal has been mined on the Kintyre...
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    manager of the Corris Railway. The enquiry considered both the Llanfair & Meifod Light Railway and the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway proposals. The...
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    that served transshipment wharves connected to the Corris Railway. A number of the quarries around Corris and Aberllefenni leased wharves here, notably Abercwmeiddaw...
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    taken largely from The Railway Year Book 1912.) The Cambrian had connections with many independent lines, including: Corris Railway, at Machynlleth Hendre-Ddu...
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    Roman Fort (SH7038) Ffestiniog Railway (SH6946) Corris Railway (SH7507) Talyllyn Railway (SH5800) Fairbourne Railway (SH6112) List of Lord Lieutenants...
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    Talyllyn Railway Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway Vale of Rheidol Railway Cambrian Heritage Railways Brecon Mountain Railway Fairbourne Railway Corris Railway...
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    in his book Railway Adventure, L. T. C. Rolt states that apart from the Talyllyn, the only public railways to use the gauge were the Corris and Campbeltown...
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    narrow gauge Corris Railway, which brought slate from the quarries around Corris and Aberllefenni for onward despatch to the markets. The railway's Machynlleth...
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    and ingenious constructions". Brunel built dockyards, the Great Western Railway (GWR), a series of steamships including the first purpose-built transatlantic...
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    Great Little Trains of Wales (category Heritage railways in Wales)
    from the original (PDF) on 7 January 2009. Retrieved 4 January 2012. "Corris Railway joins Great Little Trains of Wales". Wales247. 18 June 2021. Retrieved...
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