{"id":842,"date":"2014-03-19T20:52:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T19:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/?p=842"},"modified":"2023-10-06T10:30:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T14:30:20","slug":"penrhyn-quarry-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/penrhyn-quarry-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"The Penrhyn Quarry Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penrhyn_Quarry_Railway\">Penrhyn Quarry Railway<\/a> was possibly the first two foot gauge railway in the world, the quarry it served the largest slate quarry in the world, the slab mill and inclines the oldest in Wales. All this makes this iconic railway of national, if not global, importance. After 167 years of service, the Penrhyn Quarry Railway was closed in June 1962, most of the locomotives finding new homes throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>To give you a feel about the PQR near the last days of its operations, the following Youtube video shows some vintage footage from the 1950&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed ye-container\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-eFcrTkPcxE\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"The Penrhyn Quarry Railway\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"The Penrhyn Quarry Railway\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2014-03-19T20:52:33-04:00\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/-eFcrTkPcxE\/default.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-eFcrTkPcxE\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"375\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-eFcrTkPcxE?modestbranding=1&rel=0&iv_load_policy=3\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sixty years later, here are some of the preserved engines and rolling stock of the PQR running on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lake-railway.co.uk\/\">Llanberis Lake Railway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed ye-container\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fZtDoU34RnI\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"The Penrhyn Quarry Railway\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"The Penrhyn Quarry Railway\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2014-03-19T20:52:33-04:00\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/fZtDoU34RnI\/default.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fZtDoU34RnI\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"375\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fZtDoU34RnI?modestbranding=1&rel=0&iv_load_policy=3\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Penrhyn Quarry Railway was possibly the first two foot gauge railway in the world, the quarry it served the largest slate quarry in the world, the slab mill and inclines the oldest in Wales. All this makes this iconic railway of national, if not global, importance. After 167 years of service, the Penrhyn Quarry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/penrhyn-quarry-railway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Penrhyn Quarry Railway&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-penrhyn","category-welsh_ng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}