Delve Deeper!   We are offering extended mine tours into parts of our mine not previously open to the public. This tour is a bit more demanding that our normal tour so is only for the adventurous, you can expect a bit of mud! Tours take place at 10:30am and 1:30pm with 10 places available on each, […]

Sixty years ago, on January 15 1965, the last steam train operated within the vast Penrhyn slate quarries in North Wales. That last train was operated by Avonside loco "Ogwen" - and the driver wrote his name and the date inside the cab to mark this end of an era. Since then, "Ogwen" has been […]