Dinorwic Quarry - After Closure

After Closure

Following closure the quarry's workshop, Gilfach Ddu was acquired by the National Museum of Wales and 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 reused as part of the Dinorwig power station, a pumped storage hydroelectric scheme.

Many of the little Hunslet locomotives built to work in the quarry and at the port 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.

Part of the film Willow was shot in the disused Dinorwic Quarry, in June 1987 on some of the lower terraces next to the Pumped storage scheme. Scenes from Street Fighter were filmed on the south side of "Watford Gap" near the Matilda hole. As of July 2009 the Harriet hole is the site for one of the sets of the new film Clash of the Titans.

The quarries are now also used as an adventure rock climbing venue. The Blue Peris Mountain Centre, operated by Bedford Borough Council and Central Bedfordshire Council, conducts various outdoor activities at the quarries.