Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum

Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum

Location within Gwynedd
Established	1951
Location	Llandygai, Gwynedd, Wales
Coordinates
Type	Railroad museum
Owner	National Trust
Website	Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum

The Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum is a museum of industrial railway equipment, located at Penrhyn Castle near Bangor in Wales.

In the nineteenth century, Penrhyn Castle was the home of the Pennant family (from 1840, the Douglas-Pennants), owners of the Penrhyn slate quarry at Bethesda. The quarry was closely associated with the development of industrial narrow gauge railways, and in particular the Penrhyn Quarry Railway (PQR), one of the earliest industrial railways in the world. The PQR ran close to Penrhyn Castle, and when the castle was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1951 a small museum of industrial railway relics was created in the stable block.

The first locomotive donated to the museum was Charles, one of the three remaining steam locomotives working on the PQR. Over the years a number of other historically significant British narrow gauge locomotives and other artifacts have been added to the collection.

Locomotives

Name	Gauge	Builder	Type	Date	Works number	Notes
Charles	1 ft 10 3⁄4 in (578 mm)	Hunslet	0-4-0ST	1882	283	Worked on the Penrhyn Quarry Railway
Hugh Napier		Hunslet	0-4-0ST	1904	855	ex-Penrhyn Quarry locomotive, being restored to working order
Fire Queen	4 ft (1,219 mm)	Horlocks	0-4-0 tender	1848		Worked on the Padarn Railway
Watkin	3 ft (914 mm)	De Winton	0-4-0VB	1893		ex-Penmaenmawr & Welsh Granite Co.
Kettering Furnaces No. 3		Black, Hawthorn & Co	0-4-0ST	1885	859	ex-Kettering Ironstone Railway
No. 1	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)	Neilson and Company	0-4-0	1870	1561	ex Beckton Gas Works railway
Hawarden		Hudswell Clarke	0-4-0ST	1899	526	ex Globe Ironworks, Stalybridge
Vesta		Hudswell Clarke	0-6-0T	1916	1223	ex Hawarden Bridge steel works
Haydock		Josiah Evans / Richard Evans and Co.	0-6-0T	1879	2309	ex Haydock Foundry, Haydock

See also

• British narrow gauge railways