Disaster on the Dinorwic Gravity Railway
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Dinorwic Quarry includes the remains of the Braich levels of the Dinorwic Slate Quarry which operated from around 1770 to 1969. Many of the levels remain intact following the construction of Dinorwic Pumped Storage Power Station. The series of ‘A’ inclines from Gilfach Ddu and the Anglesey barracks have been scheduled and preserved.
The surviving remains of the site include four substantial counterbalanced inclines, complete with rails, sleepers and drumhouses, a weighbridge house, locomotive sheds, water tanks and an office and caban. There is also a blondin with winding house and an electric compressor house. There is a large slate mill with two integral engine houses and saws, catslide extension and smithing hearth.
In 1972 the site opened to the public as a museum. Equipment was collected from other slate quarries and parts of the site were restored. It is now the National Slate Museum and part of the National Museum of Wales.The sudden closure of the quarry in 1969 meant that many buildings, structures and machines survived on some of the higher, more remote levels. The very visible nature of the workings when viewed from the slopes of Snowdon or across Peris lake bring home the form and extent of the quarry, and the construction of a major pumped storage scheme in the lower part of the quarry from 1975 to 1984 added to the sense of the ‘engineering sublime’.
This area and the Ogwen valley component part of the proposed site have much in common but also significant points of difference. Whereas part of Penrhyn quarry is active, Dinorwic is entirely relict, and offers both the specialist and the interested visitor a text-book explanation of slate-quarrying practice from the late eighteenth century to the 1960s.
Dinorwic Series
Episode 1: • Adventure to the Secre...
Episode 2: • Disaster on the Dinorw...
Episode 3 • Anglesey Barracks: A G...
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200 years of history, so much left to explore & document. Stunning slate mine & beautiful area. Thanks Andy & Paul. ❤😊👍
@ALWResearchTeam
Ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Carol :) Ive been too busy to edit the Anglesea Barracks as yet but it'll be out likely thursday next week. Todays video is filmed in Hull :)
Awesome as always, stunning wheelhouse and in great shape
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Ай бұрын
Hi there :) Thanks very much.
What a wonderful place. Feels like a hayao miyazaki movie scene should be set here
@ALWResearchTeam
Ай бұрын
Wow that would be an awesome movie 🍿
@JedRichards
Ай бұрын
So true. Apparently British industrial history was a big inspiration for him kzread.info/dash/bejne/eHeiyc1tpa-nm6Q.htmlsi=JIf7FHa2s7lPrjJ7
Fabulous!!
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Ай бұрын
Thank you.
The workers of the early days paved the way far a safer future . Interesting video.
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Ай бұрын
Hello Anthony, it sure was a different world back then. :)
Great stuff buddy watched a bit gonna watch the rest in the morning it’s in my watch list
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Ай бұрын
Yo Kurt, hope youre well and speak soon :)
Fascinating video Andy. Enjoyed that 👍🏼😊
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Ай бұрын
Hi Nick, you're very welcome
Wonderful video, Andy and Paul. You folks certainly got a better weather than Ian and the IKS team, that's for sure. An astonishing place. Love the subtle differences in grey and green colour of the slate extracted from Dinorwic. Is it just me seeing it, the angle of the lense or is the outer wall of the brake house giving way towards the hill? Would be a shame if so. Looking forward to the next video. Have a wonderful weekend, everyone.
@ALWResearchTeam
Ай бұрын
The weather sure was a blessing. We were moving quickly due to the rain that was forcast but it never came. The plan was to film the adits when the weather turned but as it stayed sunny we filmed more and more outside. I hope you have a nice weekend too.
Clearly looking at the cable drums at the bottom as one is empty and the other full the loaded( descending) drams pull the empty (ascending) drams up and were controlled by the brake. So the fixed crossing never had drams on both tracks at the bottom.
The insulators were maybe for some sort of telegraph from top to bottom, to tell the brakeman at the top when the wagons at the bottom were empty and ready to be hauled back up ? Maybe like railway signal boxes with just a bell and a code book.
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16 күн бұрын
Sounds likely :) there must have been communication of some sort along the inclines :)
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Ай бұрын
Thank you Signal98 :)