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Blaenau Ffestiniog has a strong musical tradition, from the quarrying boom days with the Caban, male voice choirs and brass bands, to the Jazz / Dance bands like " The New Majestics " and the popular rock bands of the 80s and 90s such as Llwybr Llaethog and Anweledig, to more recent bands such as Gai Toms, Frizbee and Gwibdaith Hen Fran.
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Blaenau and Ffestiniog
Slate tiles were used in 19th century UK building construction ( apart from roofs ) and in slate quarrying areas such as Blaenau Ffestiniog & Bethesda, Wales there are still many buildings wholly constructed of slate.
For example the return fare from Porthmadog to Blaenau Ffestiniog on the 13-mile Festiniog railway is some £ 17. 95 and between Caernarfon to Beddgelert £ 22. 00 on the Welsh Highland Railway.
On 28 September 2003 the services from Birmingham New Street, Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly to Llandudno and Holyhead as well as those between Bidston and Wrexham Central and Llandudno and Blaenau Ffestiniog operated by First North Western were transferred.
The railway is roughly long and runs from the harbour at Porthmadog to the slate mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, travelling through forested and mountainous scenery.
The line was constructed between 1833 and 1836 to transport slate from the quarries around the inland town of Blaenau Ffestiniog to the coastal town of Porthmadog where it was loaded onto ships.
The railway was graded so that loaded wagons could be run by gravity downhill all the way from Blaenau Ffestiniog to the port.
Slate traffic ceased on 1 August 1946, apart from the section from Duffws to the North Western yard through Blaenau Ffestiniog town centre, which was leased on 7 October 1946 to the quarry owners.
On 18 August 1954, prior to commencing the restoration, in an inspection, the first of many, Colonel McMullen of the Ministry of Transport, Railways Inspectorate, accompanied by Alan Pegler, several directors and other supporters, walked the line from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog.
Double Fairlie locomotive David Lloyd George at Blaenau Ffestiniog railway station | Blaenau Ffestiniog station.
The completion of the railway through to Tanygrisiau left the FR with just one and a half miles to go to its goal of Blaenau Ffestiniog but the complexities of reconstructing that unique but very derelict urban section of narrow gauge railway took a further four years.
Ffestiniog trains returned to Blaenau on Tuesday, 25 May 1982, thus marking the 150th Anniversary of Royal Assent to the Festiniog Railway Act of 1832.
The new joint station with British Rail at Blaenau Ffestiniog was officially opened on 30 April 1983 by George Thomas, Speaker of the House of Commons, who unveiled a plaque that records his visit.
Major grants received subsequently have been: In 1989 a grant of £ 430, 000 (£ as of ), mainly from The EEC ( National Programme of Community Interest for the promoting of tourism in Dyfed, Gwynedd and Powys ); in 1995 a grant of £ 500, 000 (£ as of ), to promote work in Blaenau Ffestiniog
( the first being in Blaenau Ffestiniog ).
This loop was removed when the line was re-opened to Blaenau Ffestiniog.
In June 2002, the loop was once again used to run trains around as part of the 2002 Gala to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the restoration of services to Blaenau Ffestiniog.
A Ffestiniog Railway train leaves Porthmadog and heads towards Blaenau Ffestiniog along the Cob
* Tanygrisiau to Blaenau Ffestiniog
Blaenau Ffestiniog is a historic mining town in Gwynedd, Wales.
Blaenau Ffestiniog at one time was the second largest town in North Wales, behind Wrexham.
Blaenau Ffestiniog is known as the Victorian slate capital of the world, with around 10 mines in the town alone during its heyday.
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The party has close links with Plaid Cymru ( their partner in the EFA ) including a twinning arrangement with Plaid's Blaenau Gwent branch, and to a lesser extent with the SNP.
Blaenau Ffestiniog has several major tourist attractions, including the Ffestiniog Railway and the Llechwedd Slate Caverns, a former slate mine open to visitors.
According to the United Kingdom Census 2001, Llandybie village itself is home to a population of 3, 800, while the community – which also includes the villages of Blaenau, Caerbryn, Capel Hendre, Cwmgwili, Pentregwenlais, Penybanc, Pen-y-groes, and Saron – has 8, 800 inhabitants.
In recent years, the traffic from Trawsfynydd has ceased completely and the line has been disconnected from the Conwy Valley Line just outside Blaenau Ffestiniog station.
His widow has claimed that he was offered a peerage not to stand against Labour in Blaenau Gwent in 2005, an allegation categorically denied by Labour, and also denied by Law himself in an interview from late 2005.
The museum reopened after receiving a £ 1. 6 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and now has innovative displays featuring Victorian era slateworkers ' cottages that once stood at Tanygrisiau, near Blaenau Ffestiniog.
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The Summer timetable for 1900 had nine trains daily in each direction and trains had been accelerated to one hour from Porthmadog to Duffws including stops at Minffordd, Penrhyn, Tan-y-Bwlch, Dduallt ( request ), Tanygrisiau, Blaenau ( LNWR ) and Blaenau ( GWR ).
Blaenau Ffestiniog, seen from Moelwyn Bach, showing the large waste heaps that dominate the town.
The main access route to Blaenau Ffestiniog is via the A470 road which runs from the north to the south of Wales.
: See: Category: People from Blaenau Ffestiniog
Category: People from Blaenau Ffestiniog
The first series featured gangs and police corruption in Brazil, Māori gangs in New Zealand, neo-Nazi skinheads in California, gangsters in London, and teenagers from Blaenau Gwent.
On 28 September 2003 the services from Birmingham New Street, Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly to Llandudno and Holyhead as well as those between Bidston and Wrexham Central and Llandudno and Blaenau Ffestiniog operated by First North Western were transferred.
The section from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Betws-y-Coed was the B4407, and from there to Llandudno was the A544.
Smith was Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) for South Wales East from 1984 to 1994, and at the 1992 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Blaenau Gwent.
The town had the only Welsh-medium primary school, Ysgol Gymraeg Brynmawr, in Blaenau Gwent with 310 pupils ranging from nursery to year 6 until 2010, when the school re-located to Blaina and moved into a brand new, purpose built school.
The village became a major coaching centre between Corwen ( to the east ) and Capel Curig ( to the west ) on the Irish Mail route from London to Holyhead, which led to the improvement of the roads south to Blaenau Ffestiniog and north to Llanrwst and Conwy.
The Betws-y-Coed railway station, a passenger station on the Conwy Valley Line from Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog, is an integral part of the settlement's tourism industry.
Blaenau and quarrying
Merioneth was an important part of the Welsh slate industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with major quarrying centres at Blaenau Ffestiniog in the north of the county and Corris in the south.
At Blaenau Ffestiniog the quarrying and mining of slates was hampered by the difficulties of getting them to market.
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