The Sybil Locomotive Trust has won recognition in the form of runner-up and Highly Commended placings for the Steam ...

EXCLUSIVE: The steam railway travels through beautiful countryside and it's hoped extending it will be a boost for the the town.

The locomotives operating on this route are all former quarry steam engines, each over a century old. All but one of these trains were previously employed at the nearby Dinorwic slate quarry in ...

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"While the slate houses in Dinorwic waste away, becoming more weather-worn and defaced by vandals, the ones in Vivian Quarry remain untouched. There’s a whole other world down there and yet only ...

Megalosaurus, an apex predator in the Middle Jurassic, was the first dinosaur to be scientifically named and described in 1824 from fossils found in slate quarries in the village of Stonesfield.

In 2024, researchers from the universities of Oxford and Birmingham excavated a huge expanse of a quarry floor in Oxfordshire filled with hundreds of dinosaur footprints. Dating to the Middle ...

An environmental group is asking the Nova Scotia government to quash the approval of a small quarry in a Lunenburg County watershed it hopes will be designated a wilderness area. George Buranyi ...