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The extension of the railway from the Deeside Slab Quarry to the
Moelfferna Quarry began with a rope worked incline beside that took the
line to a higher level before running through an open area to the
quarry.
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The Moelfferna Quarry extension skirted around the
Deeside Slab Quarry, which is to the left in this photograph, and then gained
height using a rope worked incline.
Viewed from the base of the incline.
It is not known what the function of the slate pillar beside the incline was. |
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View of the incline from the Deeside Slab Quarry.
Presumably a bridge once carried a line from the quarry, on the left, to the
slate waste tip on the right. The projections on either side of this
cutting could well have been the bridge abutments.
At the head of the incline is the former winding house. |
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View back down the incline from part way up,
looking in the distance towards Glyndyfrdwy. |
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A view back down the incline from the incline
head. |
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This is the incline brake house above the top of
the incline.
The railway went to the right of the brake house and followed the contour
across to the right of the photograph, where part of the Moelfferna Quarry can
be glimpsed. |
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This horizontal band brake was inside of the
incline brake house.
Unusually it was level to the ground, with its spindle pointing towards the
sky. This is not entirely clear from the photograph, which was taken
from what had previously been the roof level of the building. |
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