Ride the T and Discover the Great Orme - Official website offering contact and fare details, technical and historical information, an interactive map of and facts about the Orme, a message board, information for schools, a history movie, a tram simulation, a photo gallery, a quiz for children, a timetable, and a report of the centenary celebrations.
Great Orme Tramway - Photographic record and description compiled in August 2000 soon after the closure of the line following the accident.
The Great Orme Railway - Archive photographs of the tramway in 1952 by Dewi Williams. Detailed coverage of stations, winding house, trackwork and cars.
Great Orme Tramway - A selection of pre-1977 black and white photographs.
Historic trams collide in Llandudno - Report and discussion about the accident in which two trams collided on April 30th 2000 injuring 17 people.
Great Orme Tramway - A description and brief history, with photographs taken during the 2002 centenary year.
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Tramway Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Tramway
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Tramway If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Tramway
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Tramway I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Tramway
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Tramway "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tramway
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Tramway The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Tramway
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Tramway What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Tramway
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Tramway A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Tramway
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Tramway Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Tramway
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Tramway I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Tramway
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Tramway "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Tramway
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Tramway Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Tramway
