This recently reprinted book tells the story of the Dinorwic Slate Quarry at Llanberis, now the home of the National Slate museum and the Electric Mountain Visitor Centre, once one of the largest slate quarries in the world. 
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Their working methods and their railways especially were from an earlier age and their days were numbered. Michael Messenger visited the area just in time and was able to visit the major working slate quarries in the counties of Caernarfon and Merionith. 
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The new information in this fresh edition takes forward and updates the sadly no longer ongoing story of this most interesting and innovative of Welsh slate regions. 
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To mark the revival of the Welsh Highland Railway, two of the leading experts in the history in the history of slate working in Wales, have come together to present a definitive account of the slate workings along its route. 
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