Wrysgan Quarry Incline

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Wrysgan Quarry Incline
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This is the superb hyperbolic incline (now breached by the road up to Stwlan Dam) which passes through a tunnel and emerges on the main mill floor of the Wrysgan Quarry, above Llyn Cwmorthin. When in use it joined the old line below Tanygrisiau.

For more information visit Remains of the Welsh Slate Industry

Looking straight up the incline with the tunnel just in sight, 1990
Wrysgan incline, seen from the footplate of Taliesin, 2007


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