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ICLOK
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13 years ago

Hi All, I was well impressed with this incline, is it the longest single incline in North Wales... as in an unbroken grade? Fantastic thing! 🙂

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!

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ttxela
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13 years ago

I remember being driven past as a child and thinking I'd like to get up there and into that tunnel....... & now I have :thumbsup:

RJV
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13 years ago

Was a bit of a failure ultimately wasn't it due to the grading?

Agreed, cracking sight though.

ICLOK
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13 years ago

But is it longest... I can't think I've seen a continuous rope worked incline any where as long as this in UK!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!

steve turbo
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13 years ago

was the rhosydd incline the longest ?

Llion
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13 years ago

wrysgan inclein is 1840ft in horizontal length and falling 715ft

rhosydd inclein is 1250ft horizontal lenght and 671ft vertically

but the rhosydd one is a lot steeper 🙂 and fun to walk up !!

🅱Me... Back n Boogying ag wrth n modd

Vanoord
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13 years ago

I alway s thought that the Rhosydd one was slight y bigger, although that might have to take account of the Brit above the incline to the winding house?

Either that; or was the Wrysgan incline truly single pitch?

Hello again darkness, my old friend...

Edd
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13 years ago

Wasnt the Wrysgan never used as the angle at the bottom was wrong?

'I started reading it with full intention to read it all and then got bored and went and got beer instead!'

grahami
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13 years ago

"edd" wrote:
Wasnt the Wrysgan never used as the angle at the bottom was wrong?

Sorry - there's no such thing as "wrong angle" Edd, you only have to look at then (often horrible) pointwork in regular use in the quarries! - the incline was in irregular use (depending on the state of working at Wrysgan) for very many years, but was particularly difficult on account of it's length and working through a tunnel at the top end. Power working was also used at one time.

CHeers

Grahami

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Edd
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13 years ago

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Ah no worries. I thought i had read something about it in a book a while ago but must of got confused :thumbup:

'I started reading it with full intention to read it all and then got bored and went and got beer instead!'

simonrl
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13 years ago

#11

There is, if memory serves, a step inside the tunnel isn't there?

my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by

royfellows
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13 years ago

#12

"ttxela" wrote:
I remember being driven past as a child and thinking I'd like to get up there and into that tunnel....... & now I have :thumbsup:

Ha same here but I think me a bit older than you Alex. My memory is of seeing a wagon going up.

My avatar is a poor likeness.

davel
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13 years ago

#13

"simonrl" wrote:
There is, if memory serves, a step inside the tunnel isn't there?

There is, but I think it's only an artefact of the driving of the original tunnel. The tunnel floor would have been made uniform with masonry but that has now degraded and presumably slid down the incline (as has happened with the underground incline at Rhiw Bach).

Dave

mistericeman
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13 years ago

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Wasn't it originally built to be gravity balanced (dual track) but due to a minor miscalculation of angle of slope towards the lower end (causing wagons "stalling" ) eventually converted to single track (powered).
Having a variety of power sources over the course of the quarries life ...from steam power (the remains of which can still be seen in the entrance to the incline) to diesel wagon lorry power ...
ending up with the electric motor from the dressing sheds being moved twixt incline and shed power duties towards the quarries final days ???

ttxela
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13 years ago

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"royfellows" wrote:

"ttxela" wrote:
I remember being driven past as a child and thinking I'd like to get up there and into that tunnel....... & now I have :thumbsup:

Ha same here but I think me a bit older than you Alex. My memory is of seeing a wagon going up.

😮 really? :lol:

I remember being intrigued enough to find it on the map and see it was a through trip. Nice when you actually get to do something you dreamed of as a child, albeit a relatively modest ambition.

Of course now I have seen rather more than I ever imagined back then. :thumbup:

Llion
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13 years ago

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"mistericeman" wrote:
Wasn't it originally built to be gravity balanced (dual track) but due to a minor miscalculation of angle of slope towards the lower end (causing wagons "stalling" ) eventually converted to single track (powered).
Having a variety of power sources over the course of the quarries life ...from steam power (the remains of which can still be seen in the entrance to the incline) to diesel wagon lorry power ...
ending up with the electric motor from the dressing sheds being moved twixt incline and shed power duties towards the quarries final days ???

Yep 😉 :smartass:

🅱Me... Back n Boogying ag wrth n modd

ladder monkey
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13 years ago

#17

Done it six times over last20 years 3 times with the kids takes my breath away every time

just blundering about