Llanberis pass, Dinorwig slate quarries...16

Power station entrance.

From another angle.

I'm sure the locals must have a name for this massive rock, would be interested to know.

The main incline comes into view.

All the winding drums I have come across previously have been single ones, one wire winds as the other unwinds. However, with the length of the levels on this site two drums, connected by a single shaft, one lowering the slate wagon and the other pulling up the empty one is employed. All the necessary power provided by gravity, a brake system is still required to control the speed .

Penmachno to the miners village. 35.

Final shots from this walk.

One of the workshops showing the machinery beds.

Really starting to crumble.

View from the winding drum building.

Carvings on the window sill, oldest one seems to be 1937.

Finally caught in the sunshine.

A fenced off section of one of the levels, not been able to find out it's significance. 

Penmachno to the miners village. 12

Winding drum. They were powered by gravity, the weight of the full slate wagon going down provided the power to pull the empty wagon back up the incline. HDR.

  

The brake assembly regulated the speed wagons on the incline. All winding drums are to the same design all over North Wales, somebody did the sums to calculate the best diameter for the drum, I

wonder who the designer was.

Last view before we go over the top.

Part of the village in the valley. HDR.

Penmachno to the miners village. 11

Looking up at a winding drum. HDR.

A new track to follow. HDR.

Winding drum building.

Side of the incline.