11. The new company would only need to build a line between Shrewsbury and the North Wales Mineral line at Wrexham. 12. On 13 March 1893, a mineral line was opened from the L & NW station to Meal Bank Quarry. 13. The works and five colleries comprising of private mineral lines were purchased by Richard Thomas & Co . in 1935. 14. As mineral lines south of Motherwell and Hamilton had built up, the gap between Hamilton and Motherwell proved inconvenient. 15. In 1976, an extension was opened along the former mineral line from Abergynolwyn to the new station at Nant Gwernol. 16. A mineral line ran down to the station from Corncockle Quarry, a large and historically important sandstone quarry near Templand. 17. Although a connection with the WSMR was suggested, involving laying of mixed gauge on the Mineral line , this never happened. 18. Although the railway was a mineral line , passengers were carried from 1928 until 1937 to the annual fetes at Himley Park. 19. A steep incline dropped from the mineral line east of Abergynolwyn station to the village below, where a series of tram lines radiated. 20. The Ely Valley Railway ( EVR ) was a mineral line authorised on 13 July 1857 to serve the collieries of the Ely Valley.
