Rhosydd quarry was a slate quarry in the Moelwyn mountains, northeast of Porthmadog in North Wales. Small-scale working of the site began in the 1830s...
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The quarry was worked on seven levels, but the three below the adit level are now flooded. There was an underground link to the nearby Rhosydd quarry, and...
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Blaenau Ffestiniog in Wales. It was overshadowed by the much bigger Rhosydd quarry a little further to the west. It was active from 1854 to 1910, and was...
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on or before 1 August. 1864. The Rhosydd Quarry at the head of the valley was connected that year. The Rhosydd quarry failed in 1873, but a new company...
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between the end points would take, as was the main incline at the nearby Rhosydd quarry, but the foot of the incline was too shallow to allow it to be fully...
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Pant-tyle Rhos Penrhiw Rhos Rhyd-y-ceir Rhos yr Hafod Rhosydd Llanwrthwl Rhosydd Nant Eithrim Rhosydd Nant-yr-henfron River Ithon River Lugg River Teme River...
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along it, to facilitate the transport of slate products from Rhosydd quarry and Croesor quarry at the head of the valley. The tramway was built without Parliamentary...
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Alexandra quarry was a slate quarry in North Wales, on the slopes of Moel Tryfan in north Gwynedd. It was part of one of the major slate quarrying regions...
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Croesor and New Rhosydd quarries. The Croesor tramway had run from Portmadoc since 1863 up into the Croesor Valley to serve the slate quarries in this area...
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slate quarries, as well as Llyn Ystradau and Ffestiniog Power Station in Tanygrisiau. On the northern slope of Allt-fawr is the Oakeley Quarry, the world's...
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nearly 500 feet (150 m). Croesor quarry built its own incline to connect to the top end of the tramway, as did Rhosydd quarry. Both descended by around 750...
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Baganall 0-6-0ST Works No 1911 'Stafford' is seen at Jee's Hartshill Granite quarry". Warwickshire Railways. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved...
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Moelwyn Mawr (section Quarrying)
quarries on them. To the north is Croesor Quarry perched high above Cwm Croesor. To the north east is Rhosydd Quarry on the col between Cwm Croesor and Cwm...
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Slate industry (redirect from Slate quarry)
related to the extraction and processing of slate. Slate is either quarried from a slate quarry or reached by tunneling in a slate mine. Common uses for slate...
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Denton, John (1974). Rhosydd Slate Quarry. The Cottage Press. Lewis, M.J.T. (2003). Blaen y Cwm and Cwt y Bugail Slate Quarries. Adit Publications....
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Cwt y Bugail Slate Quarries. Adit Publications. ISBN 978-0-9522979-3-2. Lewis, Michael; Denton, John (1974). Rhosydd Slate Quarry. The Cottage Press (no...
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Upper Rhondda Valley and sinks the Parc and Maindy pits. Opening of Rhosydd Quarry narrow gauge railway incline on the upper Croesor Tramway at the head...
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Monnow before recapture. 13 September - Rhosydd Quarry ceases slate production. Neighbouring Croesor Quarry also closes this year. 24 December - In London...
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related, the success of the agreement may indicate that they were, since Rhosydd Quarry had been trying to reach an agreement for a tramway down the valley...
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Burrows (Twyni Lacharn-Pentywyn) Rhosydd Llanpumsaint Smarts Quarry Waun-Ddu Waunfawr Wernbongam Stream Section and Quarry Whitehill Down Ydw Valley and...
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Fron-Boeth and Pant Mawr quarries were two closely related and interconnected quarries on the western slopes of Moelwyn Mawr in Gwynedd (formerly Caernarfonshire)...
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Wood Portheiddy Moor Ramsey - Ynys Dewi Rhosydd Yerbeston - Yerbeston Moors Ritec Fen Robeston Wathen Quarries Shoalshook Railway Cutting and Pit Skokholm...
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Tramway travelled along the bed of the cwm, before rising steeply to Bwlch Rhosydd via Croesor Incline. To the south of the village is the site of Parc, which...
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Porth Wen Brickworks (section Quarries and incline)
Brickworks: Silica Quarry (40737)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 17 June 2016. "Porthwen Brickworks: Silica Quarry; Dinorben Quarry (528)". Coflein. RCAHMW...
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first summer, with an average of 1,800 workmen, 450 stonemasons and 375 quarriers on the site. This consumed around £270 a week in wages and the project...
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NPRN: not yet identified. GAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: ME142: Rhosydd Incline, Drumhouse & Tramway coflein NPRN: not yet identified. GAT PRN...
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slate quarry Llyn Bodlyn - water supply to Barmouth. Llyn Bowydd - supply to the Blaenau Ffestiniog slate quarries Llyn Cwm Corsiog - supply for Rhosydd slate...
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railway was used to carry more than seven million tonnes of stone from the quarries on Holyhead Mountain to the working areas. The line eventually reached...
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The Cambrian quarry was a slate quarry, located to the west of Glyn Ceiriog in Denbighshire, North Wales. There was some small-scale extraction of slate...
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underlies, and is therefore older than, the slates of the North Wales quarrying industry, but is probably not very much older in geological terms. Since...
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