The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum

Gauge: 4ft (1.2m)

Museum objects:

• WQ001 Works plate

The Steetley Lime and Basic Company's Whitehaven Quarry was at Porthywaen on the Llanclys Junction to Llanrhiadr Mochnant and Langynog line near Oswestry. Whitehaven Quarries and Porthywaen Limeworks had a 4'0" gauge system serving the quarries on two levels, connected by a rope-worked incline. The lower level worked a crushing plant connected to kilns by an aerial ropeway. Rail traffic ceased in May 1951.

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