Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Railway Bridge at Former Llechwedd Sidings
Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 1 February 1996
- Locality
- Llechwedd Slate Mine
- Community
- Ffestiniog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.00328, -3.94334
- Cadw reference
- 16886
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Near the S entrance of Blaenau railway tunnel, immediately W of the road on the downhill approach to the town from the Crimea Pass.
Exterior
Description: Pair of cast-iron railway beam bridges, constructed 1879 when the Llechwedd slate mine established railway sidings to the E of the main railway track.. From here the slates were transported by rail to transhipment wharves at Deganwy. The bridges are heavily-rivetted and consist of 2 panels; the larger of the two spans the Afon Barlwydd at an angle and is approximately 6m long; that with the shallower beam spans a former tramway leading to a now disused incline. Originally carrying single tracks from the sidings to the main line, the rails have now been removed.
Listed as scarce examples of later C19 cast-iron beam bridges, and for group value with other listed items at the former Llechwedd sidings.
References: I. W. Jones, Llechwedd Slate Caverns, 1986, passim.
J.G. Isherwood, Slate From Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1988, 43.
Nearby in the register
- Hydro-Electric PowerstationIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Railway Bridge at Former Llechwedd SidingsTransportunder 1 mi
- Weighbridge HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Crane at Former Llechwedd SidingsIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.