Pen y Bont Incline.

Pen y Bont Incline.
Pen y Bont Incline.
Pen y Bont Incline.
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(53°0′3″N, 3°56′50″W)
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2671
Title
Pen y Bont Incline.
Date
07/08/1935
Pen y Bont Incline, 7 August 1935. The photographer is probably stood high up on the quarrymen's zig zags up to Oakeley Gloddfa Ganol. The 2-ton iron slate waggons are LNWR built. The drumhouse is just visible top left. This incline was in fact almost brand new at this time, the connection having been commissioned only a couple of years previously, the last new railway to take slate away from a quarry ever built in the Welsh slate industry. It was built by Oakeley to avoid having to pay the FR for the transfer of slate from the bottom of their inclines on the Dinas Branch to the standard-gauge yards. After this incline became operational, Oakeley made minimal use of the FR. Most of their produce went out via the LMS, having been lowered down Glan y Don Tip as seen here. Only traffic for the GWR had to use the FR to go either to the GWR Yard in Blaenau Ffestiniog or Minffordd Exchange. The vast tips in the background belong to Llechwedd.

Remarkably, the entire Glan y Don Tip, and every scrap of the vast undertaking seen in the foreground of this photograph, has now been swept away. The only trace of the existence of the tip are the now isolated pillars of Pont Goch (WSCo Oakeley Viaduct), which formerly connected the the tip seen here to the main Oakeley workings, passing high over the Dinas Branch and LNWR Conwy Valley Line in the process.

Source. H.F.Wheeller 13/1 courtesy of his estate

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