Location Moel Fferna Quarries

Located on A5 between Llangollen and Corwen and in the Berwyn Hills above the village of Glyndyfrdwy (Clwyd); The rail extension from Llangollen to Corwen involved constructing a long tunnel under the Berwyn Mountains, and together with the new centrally positioned and larger station in Llangollen, opened for service on 1 May 1865.

The tramway between the Deeside slab Quarry and Nant-y-Pandy slate works may have been built before 1876, and repaired when the mine was incorporated in 1876, along with a connection to the main line railway at Glyndyfrdwy station, and to the Moel Fferna quarry (mine).

According to Wikipedia the tramway was first opened in the 1850's: tramwayhttp://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrBTvfjMbhYY54AUrHrFAx.;_ylu=X3oDMTByOHZyb21tBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--/RV=2/RE=1488495204/RO=10/RU=http%3a%2f%2fwww.walkingforum.co.uk%2findex.php%3ftopic%3d9739.0/RK=0/RS=JA6uOGF_eQPnSXRBZ5_.mnxrQN8- />
Beeching closed the Ruabon Barmouth line in 1965 but 10 miles have (including Glyndyfrdwy station) reopened 1995 as part of the "Llangollen Railway"heritage line http://www.llangollen-railway.co.uk/ extended to Corwen in 2011

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See also https://www.aditnow.co.uk/Album/Photographs-Of-Moel-Fferna_1468/ for more recent pictures by others

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