Walk to Stwlan dam.....4.

Caught in the morning sun.

  

The hydroelectric power station.
  

The lake is calm.

 

Sunday trip...Tanygrisiau.

Took a run over to my "beans on toast cafe" for a mug of tea and a couple of pic's. For a change the sun was shinning.

End of the lake.

 

From the hydroelectric power station road.

 

The "Vale of Ffestiniog" pulling the Ffestiniog mountain railway train.

 

Grassington, Yorkshire....9.

The sun catching the weir.

  

The hydroelectric scheme.

 

Sluice control.

 

Side view.

 

Llanberis pass, Dinorwig slate quarries...10

Entrance to the hydroelectric power station below.

Still standing, just.

From the bottom of the incline.

Llanberi pass.

Remains of some tramway sleepers in the foreground.

Into the sun.

One of the pylons by the Tanygrisiau hydroelectric power station. Taken this afternoon on a glorious sunny day.

Walk to the Stwlan dam.

One of the Cwmorthin valley falls.

Two technology's, the building by the lake houses the hydroelectric power station and the building in the far distance is a nuclear power station, now de commissioned. 

Looking down the old incline to the lake.

Collapsed incline.

Looking up the incline.

At the top of the incline is a tunnel through the mountain. On the far side of the tunnel are the remains of the old slate dressing sheds.

Trip to Llanberis 4.

Goats grazing in the castle grounds.

Looking over some castle ruins.

Dinorwig hydroelectric power station. During the day it is powered by water from the lake at the top of the mountain, this is when demand is high. The water flows into the lake below and at night when demand is low the turbines work in reverse and pump the water back up to the top lake. The power station itself is built into the heart of the mountain.

View of the remains of the slate quarry located above the power station entrance.

Close up of the quarry.