Image10.jpg Image11.jpg Junction at the foot of the Rhosydd & Croesor quarry inclines Image12.jpg Image13.jpg Old FR slate wagon Image14.jpg Image15.jpg Image16.jpg The Croesor quarry incline Image17.jpg This braked version is half way down the Rhosydd incline Image18.jpg We had just climbed up the incline and that last bit really took some doing. Image19.jpg Image20.jpg Rhosydd incline drum house Image21.jpg Only two inclines to achieve this change of level from the valley below Image22.jpg Image23.jpg Image24.jpg Image25.jpg A flooded working close to Croesor village (Parc Slate & Slab Quarry) Image1.jpg Pant-mawr incline from the tramway Image2.jpg A very desolate valley Image3.jpg Blaen-y-cwm incline with Npower's turbine house now being supplied by a buried water pipe. Image4.jpg Image5.jpg Blaen-y-cwm drum house Image6.jpg The original pipe on the right has been superseded by a new buried one Image7.jpg Image8.jpg Abandoned Lister engine on the tramway above Blaen-y-cwm Image9.jpg Collapsed arch just beyond the Blaen-y-cwm incline Image10.jpg If you view the pic on page 28 of Illust. Hist. of the WHR you will see this upside down trackside Image11.jpg Croesor wagon chassis I assume to be the other one shown in the page 28 photo dated Aug.'59. (This was Apr.'76) Image12.jpg Image13.jpg Image14.jpg Image15.jpg Tramway route as it arrives in Croesor village Image16.jpg Image17.jpg Pant-mawr incline Image1.jpg Lower Parc Incline Image2.jpg Parc Quarry is down in the trees. The UpperParc incline drum house can be seen top left Image3.jpg Lower Parc Incline drumhouse remains Image4.jpg Rusty bridge beams just beyond the Upper Parc Incline Image5.jpg Image6.jpg Converted Upper Parc Incline Drumhouse Image7.jpg Upper Parc Incline Image8.jpg A very obvious tramway route Image9.jpg Insitu Croesor sleeper and chairs Croesor1.jpg Where the tramway crosses the A4085 Croesor2.jpg The tramway embankment near the crossing with the A4085 Croesor3.jpg The view from the crossing with the A4085 Croesor4.jpg The Afon Croesor is on the left and the stream on the right runs down from Parc Quarry Croesor1.jpg Upper Parc incline Croesor2.jpg Parc Quarry Croesor3.jpg The converted drum house Croesor4.jpg View from the old drum house Croesor5.jpg Quiet summer's evening Parc1.jpg Parc Quarry Parc2.jpg The tramway branch into Parc Quarry Parc3.jpg Parc4.jpg Parc5.jpg The route approaching Croesor village Parc6.jpg The curved approach behind me to start up the Upper Parc incline Parc7.jpg The Upper incline almost grassed over Parc8.jpg I guess stone from the drum house was used in the house restoration adjacent to the incline about 1955 Parc9.jpg The Lower Parc Incline Parc10.jpg Parc11.jpg Parc12.jpg A short section that has virtually disappeared Mine.jpg A flooded working Croesor1.jpg Some of the last signs of habitation at the higher end of the valley Pantmawr1.jpg Its quite a climb to the top of this incline Pantmawr2.jpg Pantmawr3.jpg An interesting rock formation at the start of the Pant-mawr branch along the face of the Moelwyns FronBoeth1.jpg The short link before it turns into the blocked tunnel FronBoeth2.jpg The tramway tunnel is blocked by a roof collapse FronBoeth3.jpg Looking down on Fron Boeth towards Porthmadog Aircraft1.jpg An RAF Valletta trainer approaching the Moelwyns on a training flight Aircraft2.jpg Climbing up to pass between Moelwyn Bach & Mawr Aircraft3.jpg The Valetta skimming through the Bwlch Stwlan gap! Aircraft4.jpg Passing over Llyn Stwlyn Resr. and diving towards Tan-y-Grisiau Reservoir Image10.jpg Image11.jpg Image12.jpg ParcQuarry1.jpg ParcQuarry2.jpg ParcQuarry3.jpg ParcQuarry4.jpg The flooded workings ParcQuarry5.jpg ParcQuarry6.jpg ParcQuarry7.jpg ParcQuarry8.jpg ParcQuarry9.jpg The power source for this quarry used to be a water wheel located here. Image1.jpg John Hopkins excellent image repair to this pic. He has made the holes in the slide completely disappear Pic12.jpg The exposed tramway along the face of The Moelwyns with Bach in the distance Pic13.jpg The Pant-Mawr tramway under Moelwyn Mawr Pic14.jpg Pic15.jpg A quarry building adjacent to some spoil tips Pic16.jpg A lovely view on a nice day but very remote Pic17.jpg Having a rest by the Pant-Mawr tramway Pic1.jpg Looking down into the Croesor Valley Pic2.jpg Pic3.jpg The head of the Pant mawr incline Pic4.jpg The S link that Boyd refers to on page 127 Pic18.jpg This view is thro' the gap between Mawr and Bach and is the slope of Mawr dropping into Llyn Stwlan Pic19.jpg Exposed trial workings Pic20.jpg Pic21.jpg Pic22.jpg Pic23.jpg Fron-boeth in the early '80's Pic24.jpg An example of the unstable hillside above Fron-boeth Pic25.jpg Pic26.jpg Kate looking in one of the many flooded workings Pic27.jpg Kate catching her breath on the steep climb. Pic28.jpg A beautiful stretch of line but so difficult to reach Pic29.jpg Pic30.jpg Looking back towards Porthmadog