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- Graig_Ddu_Quarry abstract "Graig Ddu Quarry (sometimes known as Craig Ddu) (loc. SH724454) originally opened as Manod Quarry in about 1800, but developed as Graig Ddu in the 1840s. Although output was only about 3000 tons a year (3140 tons in 1882), it reputedly has 36 saw tables and the same number of dressing machines on site. As with others in the area, the quarry suffered from a lack of water, resulting in the siting of the mill some distance away, at a lower level.This was one of the last quarries to ship slate down the Dwyryd, but after 1865 slate was taken down to Tan y Manod using a 4 pitch incline. These inclines were renowned for the quarrymen's use of ceir gwyllt (wild cars), a sort of skateboard which sat on one rail, with an arm reaching across to a parallel rail, an operation that was only possible at Graig ddu, of all the Blaenau quarries, because the exit incline from the Mill level was both very long and of unusually shallow pitch - it ran across the face of the hillside to the east of Tanymanod, rather than directly up and down.The opening of the Festiniog And Blaenau Railway in 1868, which connected with the quarry inclines, vastly improved the method of transporting slate from the quarry. When, in 1883, this railway was converted to standard gauge, wagons were carried to Blaenau Ffestiniog using a piggy-back style similar to that used on the Padarn Railway at Dinorwig, after which they were either transferred to the Festiniog Railway or into GWR wagons.".
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- Graig_Ddu_Quarry wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ffestiniog_Railway.
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry wikiPageWikiLink Category:Slate_mines_in_Gwynedd.
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- Graig_Ddu_Quarry wikiPageWikiLink Manod_Mawr.
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- Graig_Ddu_Quarry wikiPageWikiLink Open_cast_mining.
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry wikiPageWikiLink Padarn_Railway.
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- Graig_Ddu_Quarry wikiPageWikiLink Second_World_War.
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- Graig_Ddu_Quarry wikiPageWikiLinkText "Craig Ddu".
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry wikiPageWikiLinkText "Graig Ddu Quarry".
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry wikiPageWikiLinkText "Graig Ddu".
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry hasPhotoCollection Graig_Ddu_Quarry.
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Commons_category.
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- Graig_Ddu_Quarry subject Category:Ffestiniog_Railway.
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry subject Category:Slate_mines_in_Gwynedd.
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry point "52.991057 -3.915171".
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry type SpatialThing.
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry comment "Graig Ddu Quarry (sometimes known as Craig Ddu) (loc. SH724454) originally opened as Manod Quarry in about 1800, but developed as Graig Ddu in the 1840s. Although output was only about 3000 tons a year (3140 tons in 1882), it reputedly has 36 saw tables and the same number of dressing machines on site.".
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry label "Graig Ddu Quarry".
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- Graig_Ddu_Quarry sameAs Q16839883.
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry sameAs Q16839883.
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry lat "52.991057".
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry long "-3.915171".
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry wasDerivedFrom Graig_Ddu_Quarry?oldid=678733839.
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry depiction The_former_slate_storage_area_of_Graig_Ddu_Quarry_-_geograph.org.uk_-_561688.jpg.
- Graig_Ddu_Quarry isPrimaryTopicOf Graig_Ddu_Quarry.