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Part 1 (this page) Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 The famous wooden railway near Llangollen was opened in stages. The story begins with a slate quarry and its associated processing mill on the hill above Glyndyfrdwy. Production may have begun circa 1870. At this time slates were despatched by road, possibly on a form of sled pulled by a horse. By 1891 a larger quarry was in production further up the hill, being joined to the processing mill by a wooden tramway. In order to transport the increased output of slates a rope worked incline railway was opened from the processing mill down to the Great Western Railway (GWR) at Glyndyfrdwy. This new quarry was known as the Deeside Slab Quarry and the industrial railway joining it to the mill was known as the Deeside Tramway. A map dated 1900 shows no change from the situation in 1891. But a map dated two years later shows a third quarry further up the hill, served by a railway from the Deeside Slab Quarry. This section of railway included a rope worked incline at each end. The new quarry was called the Moelfferna Quarry. This group of web pages illustrate what remained of the former railway system in the 1980s, starting from the Glyndyfrdwy end and finishing at the Moelfferna Quarry. 
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