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Level 9 Adit Portal

Date	23 February 2013
Location	Cwm Croesor	SH 66522 46150; 52.99598°N, 3.99025°W
Information	Rhosydd Quarry

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Rhosydd Quarry Level 9 Adit

End of the adit

Date	2 July 2011
Location	Cwm Croesor	SH 66522 46150; 52.99598°N, 3.99025°W
Information	The main adit at Rhosydd Quarry, on level 9, led to all the working levels in the slate mine via internal inclines. Slate wagons were drawn along a track in the adit using a haulage system powered by a water wheel. Rhosydd Quarry

Rhosydd Tramway Incline

Looking down the incline and along Cwm Croesor

Date	28 April 2011
Location	Cwm Croesor	SH 65774 46354; 52.99763°N, 4.00147°W
Information	The Rhosydd Tramway was opened in 1864, providing a link from Rhosydd Quarry to the Croesor Tramway and thence to the port of Porthmadog, some eight miles distant. Traction on the tramway was provided by horses and gravity powered the inclines. The main incline drops 670 ft in a horizontal distance of 1250 ft. Rhosydd – Transport from and to the quarry (penmorfa.com)

Rhosydd Quarry

Level 9 adit, Rhosydd Quarry

Date	28 April 2011
Location	Cwm Croesor	SH 66512 46224; 52.99664°N, 3.99042°W
Information	Quarrying for slate at Rhosydd dates back to the 1830s and continued until the quarry’s closure in 1930. Slate was extracted both from the surface and from underground workings. Fourteen levels, numbered from the top, were developed and level 9 became the main centre of operations. Located there were the main mill, the quarrymen’s barracks and the start of the tramway. At over 2200 ft long, level 9 adit led, via internal inclines, to all the working levels in the mine. Slate wagons were drawn along a track in the adit using a haulage system powered by a water wheel. Rhosydd – A Ffestiniog Slate Quarry (penmorfa.com)