Ffestiniog Railway, Picture 20, Edited Version, Minffordd, Gwynedd, Wales (UK), 2012

One of the Ffestiniog's freight customers over the years was the Maenofferen Quarry, and there's still a yard here. However, business has always been sporadic. The first use of the railway was between 1848 and 1850 (the quarry predates the railway by about 36 years, having been started in 1800), then 1857-1865, when there was a pause, and then the longest continuous freight service was in 1865-1962, even the period from 1946-1954, when the Ffestiniog wasn't operating and the quarry operated its own trains by leasing the section of the line to Duffws, where there was a connection with the LMS and later BR.