Beddgelert Siding and Rhosydd Wharf.

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Beddgelert Siding and Rhosydd Wharf.

Beddgelert Siding and Rhosydd Wharf, July 1926. The family out hiking beside the WHR mainline are probably the Mowats. It is apparent from looking at all their photographs taken in the area that the week of their holiday was the week when the FR had restarted but the WHR had not - hence the walk out to Croesor Junction from Portmadoc. Unsurprisingly, it would seem from their photographs that the Croesor Tramway traffic to/from Portmadoc during the WHR stoppage continued to be transported to the wharves by horse and locomotive (probably the petrol tractors on dedicated workings).

The standard-gauge unfitted rake includes two NE waggons. The nearer vehicle with the smaller faded lettering is a North Eastern Railway waggon proper, whilst the one with the larger letters is probably London North Eastern, who used NE on their waggons to avoid repainting the huge number of ex-NER vehicles they inherited. They are followed by an LMS vehicle. The waggon with the diagonal markings is privately owned. The narrow-gauge slate waggons are Rhosydd types, one wooden, the other iron and loaded with a tank or pressure vessel of some kind. In the distance towards the end of the transhipment siding can be glimpsed at least one Parc & Croesor iron-bodied waggon. This is more or less the site of the subsequent Pen y Mount Station. The nearer small buildings were probably offices for the wharf management, the further ones being Pen y Mount Farm.

Source. Mowat Collection. FR Archives 40. AG Collection

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