THE Llandudno
GREAT
ORME
TRAMWAY
Selected
tramway links
This is Britain’s only remaining cable operated street tramway and one of only three surviving in the world. Operation of the Great Orme tramway differs from the famous and unique San Francisco system in that, like the Lisbon lines, it is a street funicular, where the cars are stopped and started by stopping and starting the cable. The tramway has been carefully and systematically renewed between 2000 and 2005. This page provides links to many other sites offering views and insights into this remarkable survival.
Car
No. 4, ‘St. Tudno’, built new in 1902,
ascending the interlaced tracks above the passing loop in Ty Gwyn Road
on the approach to the Halfway Station.
- For more photographs including the halfway and summit stations click NEXT PAGE.
- For an outline of the history of the undertaking and its equipment click HISTORY
- Visit My GREAT ORME pages.
- Visit My Aerial cabin car page.
- Visit My SummiT complex pages.
- Visit
My LLANDUDNO home
town page.
- Visit My LLANDUDNO ATTRACTIONS page.
- Visit the Llandudno Town Trail
- Visit the Great Orme Tramway Official Website.
- Fine historic photographs from 1952 when the line was still steam operated at Dewi Williams’s Site.
- For more pre-1977 black & white photographs Click Here.
- For Walter Rice’s distinctive American 1994 description of the tramway see The Cable Car of Wales.
- Very interesting photographs taken in August 2000 are at Colin Parson’s site.
- Joe Thompson’s Cable Car Home Page contain’s abundant historical information on cable car lines.
- More recent Great Orme photographs may be seen at these sites:
- The
Llandudno
and Colwyn Bay
Tramway Society perpetuates
the memory of the former inter-urban line, which, built in 1907 from
Llandudno West
Shore, followed (along Gloddaeth Avenue) the south facing side of the
Great Orme, crossed Llandudno Bay (via Mostyn Street, Mostyn Broadway,
Mostin Avenue
and Bodafon Fields and surmounted the shoulder of the Little Orme
before following the coast to Rhos on Sea and Colwyn Bay. Following
coastal erosion, the Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Electric Railway closed
to all traffic in 1956. This site has excellent coverate of the 2007
replica tramcar and the centenary celebrations. Excellent archive
photographs of the line and
its trams are at Dewi Williams’s L&CBER
Site.
- The
North
Wales Coast Railway The
site for information on
local rail transport for both travellers and enthusiasts. Manchester -
Llandudno, Crewe or Cardiff to Chester and Holyhead, Llandudno to
Blaenau Ffestiniog.
- Visit Trefriw
Wollen Mills in the Conwiy Valley - the makers of fine Welsh tweeds
and tapestries.
HOME - Llandudno Queen of the North Wales Resorts
Links to other sites compiled by Noel
Walley:
The Prince of Wales & The Welsh Highland Railway
North Staffordshire Railway Passenger Services
Change & Development in North Wales (1750-1950)
Industrial Influence on the Landscape in Snowdonia
Llandudno & Isle of Man Tramways
Virgin Trains Restore London to Llandudno Service
Crich Tramway Museum