Rolling Stock On Display in The Museum
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- Birkby’s Brickworks: small steel wagon with 4 flangeless wheels and forked bracket to accept haulage chain. It ran on an 18in gauge plateway made up from lengths of steel angle. Donated 1983.
- Bicslade Tramroad oak-framed 4-wheel plateway wagon 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm), from Bixslade in the Forest of Dean. The oldest item in the collection built about 1790 and given to the Trust in 1964.
- Dinorwic Quarry Railway (Padarn Railway) 4 ft (1,219 mm) gauge host wagon built 1848 to carry three 2′ gauge slate wagons and a 2′ gauge guards van from the Quarries to the Incline down to Port Dinorwic. The line was closed in 1961 and the wagons came to the Museum in 1964.
- Nantlle Tramway wagon: gauge 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm); steel: double-flanged wheels, loose on fixed axles, built by Glaslyn Foundry, Portmadoc. Line opened 1828 worked by horses until the final section was closed by British Railways in 1963, the last use of horses by BR. Given to Museum in 1958.
- Oakley Quarry Coal Wagon 1 ft 11 1⁄2 in (596.9 mm) wooden body with doors at one end, ran on Festiniog Railway. Purchased 1963.
- Bryn Eglwys Quarry Wagon 2 ft 3 in (685.8 mm), wood, for carrying slate slabs out of the quarry. Donated in 1980 and in store until restoration and display in 2001.
- Woolwich Arsenal Wagon 18 in (457 mm) wooden flat body for carrying explosives. Gift 1976.
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