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Conwy Valley Railway Museum
	The miniature steam railway
	Location within Conwy County Borough
Established	1970s
Location	Betws-y-Coed, Conwy County Borough, Wales
Coordinates	53°05′34″N 3°48′01″W / 53.092903°N 3.800207°W
Type	Railway museum
Founder	Alan Pratt
Owner	Colin Cartwright
Website	Conwy Valley Railway Museum

Conwy Valley Railway Museum

Transport for Wales		Conwy Valley Railway Museum
Mainline	Fence	Miniature Tramway	Miniature Railway	Coin-operated Tram	Isolated Section
Bi-directional		not in use	in use	in use	for catering rolling stock

Legend

To Llandudno					Balloon loops
					(superimposed)




					Bridge over pond


					Crossing to car park
					Alighting-only platform

					Boarding-only platform
Betws-y-coed mainline station




Bridge between mainline
station and miniature railway

					Junction to yard






To Blaenau Ffestiniog

The Conwy Valley Railway Museum (Welsh: Amgueddfa Rheilffordd Dyffryn Conwy) is located at Betws-y-Coed railway station, Betws-y-Coed, North Wales, on the site of the old railway goods yard.

Museum

The museum was founded starting with a former standard gauge railway carriage which today acts as a licensed buffet and restaurant car. The current museum was built later, and contains various railway artefacts.

Miniature railway

Other attractions include a 7+1⁄4 in (184 mm) gauge miniature steam railway which runs for 1-mile (1.6 km) on the site. The railway is a single track running around the perimeter of the site. It is curved round 180 degrees at the South of the site with a balloon loop at each end which are superimposed at the North of the site. Use of several spring points allow trains to complete a circuit without manual adjustment of any points. Passing loops allow more than one train to use the circuit simultaneously.

Tramway

There is also a one-third full-size (1:3) electric tramcar which runs for a 0.5-mile (805 m) on the site, on track of 15 in (381 mm) gauge. This is one of only two electric tramways in Wales (the other being a short 18 in (457 mm) gauge electric tramway in Heath Park, Cardiff, owned by Cardiff Model Engineering Society).^[1]^[2]

References

^ "Cardiff Model Engineering Society". www.cardiffmes.com. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
^ Railway Track Diagrams volumes 3 & 4, published by Quail Track Diagrams