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The Welsh Highland Heritage Railway is a bit different...... Your journey takes about an hour, but you won't be on the train for most of the time! We'll take you on a short train ride, then we stop at the Engine Sheds where you get to climb into the cabs of the locomotives and see how things work. Find out about the narrow gauge railways of Porthmadog and how they became famous around the world with your free visitor guide.

You enter this old but important slate mine is through it's the main tunnel, under the twin arches of the crypt and into the lofty, spectacular, cathedral cavern. The slate mine's tunnels and caverns are all man made and over a century old. It's slate, found in long veins between layers of Pre- Cambrian rocks, is amongst the oldest in the world, and many industrial towns of Britain and Ireland have roofs made from Llanfair slate.

Descend Jacobs ladder and wander through the tunnels and chambers, and look for the old drilling holes. There is a likeness of a human face in the mighty number 6 cavern. As you emerge from the caverns, you face the breath-taking view of Cardigan Bay, from the Preseli mountains in the south to the Lleyn peninsular in the north.

From the entrance you can look down at Shell Island and the Artro Estuary, at low tide the fourteen mile length of St Patrick's causeway can be seen.

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