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The Conwy Valley Railway Museum ( cy, Amgueddfa Rheilffordd Dyffryn Conwy) is located at
Conwy Valley Railway Museum website
{{authority control Betws-y-Coed Museums in Conwy County Borough Railway museums in Wales 7¼ in gauge railways in Wales 15 in gauge railways in Wales 1970s establishments in Wales
The Conwy Valley Railway Museum ( cy, Amgueddfa Rheilffordd Dyffryn Conwy) is located at Betws-y-Coed railway station
Betws-y-Coed railway station is a railway station on the Conwy Valley Line from Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales. It is situated south of Llandudno Junction.
The passenger train service is operated by Transport for Wales Rai ...
, Betws-y-Coed
Betws-y-coed (; '' en, prayer house in the wood'') is a village and community in the Conwy valley in Conwy County Borough, Wales, located in the historic county of Caernarfonshire, right on the boundary with Denbighshire, in the Gwydir Forest. ...
, North Wales
North Wales ( cy, Gogledd Cymru) is a region of Wales, encompassing its northernmost areas. It borders Mid Wales to the south, England to the east, and the Irish Sea to the north and west. The area is highly mountainous and rural, with Snowdonia N ...
, on the site of the old railway goods yard.
Museum
The museum was founded starting with a former standard gauge railway carriage which today acts as a licensed buffet and restaurant car. The current museum was built later, and contains various railway artefacts.Miniature railway
Other attractions include a gauge miniature steam railway which runs for on the site. The railway is a single track running around the perimeter of the site. It is curved round 180 degrees at the South of the site with aballoon loop
A balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop ( North American Terminology) allows a rail vehicle or train to reverse direction without having to shunt or stop. Balloon loops can be useful for passenger trains and unit freight trains.
Bal ...
at each end which are superimposed at the North of the site. Use of several spring points allow trains to complete a circuit without manual adjustment of any points. Passing loops allow more than one train to use the circuit simultaneously.
Tramway
There is also a one-third full-size (1:3) electric tramcar which runs for a on the site, on track of gauge. This is one of only two electric tramways in Wales (the other being a short gauge electric tramway in Heath Park, Cardiff, owned by Cardiff Model Engineering Society).Railway Track Diagrams volumes 3 & 4, published by Quail Track DiagramsSee also
*British narrow gauge railways
There were more than a thousand British narrow-gauge railways ranging from large, historically significant common carriers to small, short-lived industrial railways. Many notable events in British railway history happened on narrow-gauge railwa ...
* Conwy Valley Line
* List of British railway museums
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This is a list of railway museums in the United Kingdom.
England
* Amberley Working Museum, Arundel, West Sussex
* Astley Green Colliery Museum, Astley, Greater Manchester
* Bahamas Locomotive Societ ...
* Miniature Railways
References
Conwy Valley Railway Museum website
{{authority control Betws-y-Coed Museums in Conwy County Borough Railway museums in Wales 7¼ in gauge railways in Wales 15 in gauge railways in Wales 1970s establishments in Wales