Wellington Pool

Lake, Pool, Pond, Freshwater Marsh in Caernarfonshire

Wales

Wellington Pool

Llyn Padarn railway Headed by Elidir.
Built 1889, Hunslet 0-4-0ST Elidir worked at Dinorwic Quarries as Red Damsel until transferred to the Llanberis Lake Railway at the end of 1969. — Llyn Padarn railway Credit: Richard Hoare

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Wellington Pool Images

Images are sourced within 2km of 53.119061/-4.103992 or Grid Reference SH5960. Thanks to Geograph Open Source API. All images are credited.

Llyn Padarn railway

Headed by Elidir. Built 1889, Hunslet 0-4-0ST Elidir worked at Dinorwic Quarries as Red Damsel until transferred to the Llanberis Lake Railway at the end of 1969.

Richard Hoare

Elidir at Gilfach Ddu

Built 1889, Hunslet 0-4-0ST Elidir worked at Dinorwic Quarries as Red Damsel until transferred to the Llanberis Lake Railway at the end of 1969.

Richard Hoare

Llyn Padarn train at Gilfach Ddu

Richard Hoare

Rusty trucks and tracks

At Gilfach Ddu station sidings.

Richard Hoare

Offer weindio Chwerel Dinorwig / Dinorwig Quarry winding gear

Ceri Thomas

Coed Dinorwig

Ceri Thomas

Chwarelau Dinorwig Rhybudd o Berygl / Dinorwig Quarries Danger Notice

Ceri Thomas

Elidir at Gilfach Ddu

Standing by the National Slate Museum, by the Llanberis Lake Railway.

John Lucas

Nant Peris and Dinorwig Quarry from the Llanberis Ridge of Snowdon

Nant Peris, a former slate quarrying village, stands on land formed by the natural infilling of the upper part of Llyn Peris in the post-glacial period. The main peak in this image is Elidir Fawr.

Eric Jones

National Slate Museum at Llanberis

Sandy Gerrard

Llanberis, Stryd Fawr (High Street)

David Dixon

High Street Llanberis

David Dixon

Llanberis Lake Railway, Bridge across Afon y Bala

The Llanberis Lake Railway, in Snowdonia, uses this bridge to cross the shortest river in Wales, Afon y Bala, which flows between Llyn Peris and Llyn Padarn.

David Dixon

Llanberis Lake Railway, Gilfach Ddu

The original terminus of the railway, at Gilfach Ddu, is now a through station serving both the National Slate Museum and the nearby Dolbadarn Castle.

David Dixon

National Slate Museum. Llanberis

The National Slate Museum (previously known as the Welsh Slate Museum and the North Wales Quarrying Museum) is located at Gilfach Ddu, the 19th-century workshops of the now disused Dinorwic quarry, within the Padarn Country Park, Llanberis. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of relics of the slate industry in Wales. See Link

(the museum’s official site) for more information.

David Dixon

Afon y Bala

The Llanberis Lake Railway, in Snowdonia, uses this bridge to cross the shortest river in Wales, Afon y Bala, which flows between Llyn Peris and Llyn Padarn.

David Dixon

Llanberis Pass near Nant Peris

The A4086 runs for almost 18 miles between Caernarfon and Capel Curig. It is a popular tourist route as it passes through some of the most memorable and famous parts of Snowdonia including the Llanberis Pass.

David Dixon