R5822. Summit Cutting. January,1978.

            1978/01.R5822.  Originally, the Festiniog Railway was engineered to have a continuous gradient from the slate quarries at Blaenau Ffestiniog to the coast at Portmadoc Harbour so that the loaded slate waggons could be run by gravity all the way from the quarries to the waiting ships.  However, as running gravity slate trains is no longer a requirement, a short section of down gradient towards Blaenau was incorporated when the deviation line was built to avoid the Llyn Ystradau reservoir.  

The summit of this new section of line is behind the hydro-electric power station and the track was laid in this area in January, 1978.  First World War Baldwin 2-4-0 tractor MOELWYN, now fitted with a diesel engine, stands on newly laid but not fully sleepered track in Summit Cutting, the beginning of the down grade section to Tanygrisiau.  

Rodney Thorp writes : “Hi Ron, Just a slight correction to the picture's caption. The sleepering as seen was just a temporary measure to give rail access to the rest of track construction sites. The area shown is the summit of the deviation which was latter fitted with long Glasgow Underground sleepers to take the guard rails to protect the Power Station.”  

Thanks Rodney.  

Copyright © Ron Fisher.

Taken on: January 1, 1978

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