The Porthgain Railway was a
3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge industrial railway connecting the Pen Clegyr and St. Bride's quarries with
Porthgain
Porthgain ( Welsh for ''fair/beautiful port or more likely 'chisel port' from the Welsh 'porth' meaning port and 'gaing' meaning chisel as used by the many slate workers there after the port was built and became operational in the early 19th Cen ...
harbour. It operated from the late 1880s until 1931.
The line of the track can still be traced as a levelled strip on the clifftop, adjacent to the path to Porthgain harbour.
Locomotives
See also
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Abereiddy
Abereiddy ( cy, Abereddi) is a hamlet in the county of Pembrokeshire, in west Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England bor ...
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British industrial narrow gauge railways
British industrial narrow-gauge railways are narrow-gauge railways in the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man that were primarily built to serve one or more industries. Some offered passenger services for employees or workmen, but they did not run p ...
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Industrial railway
References
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* {{cite web , url=http://www.pembrokeshirevirtualmuseum.co.uk/main_menu/trade_and_industry/trains/railways/porthgain_tramway.html , title=Pembrokeshire Virtual Museum article
3 ft gauge railways in Wales
Rail transport in Pembrokeshire