We thought it would be nice day to take some photo-spheres up on Moel Tryfan. Whilst so doing, we came across a couple of points of interest.
It appears that the company re-working the waste tips have relocated some of their operations from the top, near the firing range onto lower ground. In doing so, they've closed off the original track with rubble (foreground), but for some reason have created a new track to the top (seen top left)
The Moel Tryfan Tunnel. This is a bit of a mystery, but on the other side of Moel Tryfan, there is a collapsed adit used as a water supply. It also has a large slate waste heap. It must have come through somewhere into the above pit, presumably more or less at water level if it's the current drainage. It must be under one of the piles of slate rubble in the above photo. I'm not entirely sure where the boundary between Moel Tryfan and Alexandra is, but have always assumed this is Moel Tryfan, and Alexandra is next pit up.
Apart from the Moel Tryfan Tunnel, most slate appears to have been carted up out of the quarry to the south-west or north east. However, as shown in the above photo is the remains if what appears to have been a separate processing site, with its own set of tips (out of sight behind the buildings.) My conjecture is that slate was ferried up here direct from the pit via a Blondin, although no remains of a tower are to be seen. The building on the left in the above photo appears to be the site of some electrical installation.
Visible in holes in concrete, and embedded in a brick structure are a series of broken insulators. Nearby is a wooden board with metal terminals which at one point must have been mounted on the wall outside where electrical power came in. Apart from the insulators, there is no other evidence of any electrical machinery. And there is nothing in any of the other ruined buldings to give a clue to the operation of what must have been a separate processing site.
It appears that the company re-working the waste tips have relocated some of their operations from the top, near the firing range onto lower ground. In doing so, they've closed off the original track with rubble (foreground), but for some reason have created a new track to the top (seen top left)
The Moel Tryfan Tunnel. This is a bit of a mystery, but on the other side of Moel Tryfan, there is a collapsed adit used as a water supply. It also has a large slate waste heap. It must have come through somewhere into the above pit, presumably more or less at water level if it's the current drainage. It must be under one of the piles of slate rubble in the above photo. I'm not entirely sure where the boundary between Moel Tryfan and Alexandra is, but have always assumed this is Moel Tryfan, and Alexandra is next pit up.
Apart from the Moel Tryfan Tunnel, most slate appears to have been carted up out of the quarry to the south-west or north east. However, as shown in the above photo is the remains if what appears to have been a separate processing site, with its own set of tips (out of sight behind the buildings.) My conjecture is that slate was ferried up here direct from the pit via a Blondin, although no remains of a tower are to be seen. The building on the left in the above photo appears to be the site of some electrical installation.
Visible in holes in concrete, and embedded in a brick structure are a series of broken insulators. Nearby is a wooden board with metal terminals which at one point must have been mounted on the wall outside where electrical power came in. Apart from the insulators, there is no other evidence of any electrical machinery. And there is nothing in any of the other ruined buldings to give a clue to the operation of what must have been a separate processing site.
