RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted November 15, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 15, 2009 Found these little bits of magical remains in an old quarry site above the Corris Railway. Left just as they were when it was a working quarry. Hopefully they'll be preserved in the future. Also some original track on the Corris Railway proper at Machynlleth uncovered by the original station. Looks like a wagon 'puterona'! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cornelius Posted November 15, 2009 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 15, 2009 Nice pictures, I do like those manual turn plates - it's a good reminder of just how much physical effort was needed to work these tramways above where locos could reach. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 5944 Posted November 15, 2009 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 15, 2009 The quarry is Aberllefenni Slate Quarry. According to http://www.penmorfa.com/Slate/GALLERY5.HTM it closed in December 2003. I drove up there about 4 years ago and the adit entrance was still open, but with a gate across. The November 2003 issue of Railway Bylines had an article too. There's a fair bit of information about the quarry and the line on the internet but it takes a while to find it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted November 16, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 16, 2009 Some of my photos taken at the same time can be found in my Gallery section, John. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonB Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 I walked the track bed in (I think) 1955, almost all the track had gone by then. I did find a track spike which I used as a paperweight on my desk for years. 4 employers later, I've no idea what happened to it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastworld Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Found these little bits of magical remains in an old quarry site above the Corris Railway. Left just as they were when it was a working quarry. Hopefully they'll be preserved in the future. Also some original track on the Corris Railway proper at Machynlleth uncovered by the original station. Looks like a wagon 'puterona'! Latterly slabs of slate were dragged out on a wagon and I believe taken by a forklift truck to the nearby slate works. There were at the time when I visited in the 1980s a large number of bits of former railway equipment all over the area. Stu Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 'puterona' sounds like something vaguely improper in Spanish.. what is it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
invercloy Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 'puterona' sounds like something vaguely improper in Spanish.. what is it? http://www.osbornsmo...iler-1678-p.asp Nice photos, I remember being there a few years ago seeing the remains of the lines and inclines. Very atmospheric. When is the welsh quarry layout being started, John? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 19, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 19, 2010 'puterona' sounds like something vaguely improper in Spanish.. what is it? It's pronounced Putter-on-er-rer... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Thanks for the memories Re 6/6. We moved from Coventry to Upper Corris in January 1971 when I was age 9. I went to school in Corris - our school being adjacent to the Corris Railway formation save for a farm access. A chap named Idris Evans lived in or village and drove the battery electric loco in the quarry in Aberllefenni - mostly underground. They used a Ferguson tractor to haul the wagons from the quarry to the cutting shed at that time. The revitalised Corris Railway was very much in it's infancy then, the museum in the former stables housing artifacts from the old system. It's is amazing how the preserved railway has advanced - what with one replica steam loco in service, and the only other design at planning stage. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickinwestwales Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 RE6/6-If you check out the Corris website you should find a couple of shots from almost the same location as yours, taken back when the adit was still being worked,together with plenty of other interesting stuff. For those interested,I recently visited the centre for alternative technology a little further down the valley-as many of you will know this is located in an old quarry formerly served by the line and what appears to be an embankment connecting the quarry & line (seemingly constructed from slate waste) is clearly visible from the rather vertiginous viewing platform at the top of the funicular ATB Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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