Dinorwic Vivian Quarry incline V2
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2012
- The terraces and inclines of the Vivian Quarry dominate the backscene to Gilfach Ddu station at Llanberis, where the National Slate Museum's restored V2 incline is a prominent feature. Normally the incline is operated 3 days a week by the museum to show the movement of the "tanciau", the incline platforms that carry the slate wagons. But its full set up of supporting infrastructure, including two traversers, a series of spur sidings and a fleet of Dinorwic quarry wagons, have never seen action since restoration. All that's needed to make it work is two teams of men in flat caps and scruffy overcoats and some traditional Welsh weather.
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Lovely part of the world, happy memories visiting with mum.
Hi Pete. And I’ve never seen the museum operate this since I recorded it, so a lucky capture
@@MrRnipperBrockleBroadcasting I'm popping up to Wales for a flying visit next weekend, but only there for Saturday night, I have been working in Telford for a few weeks.
This video is absolutely exceptional. What a beautiful heritage, thank you very much for us to enjoy.
jean-claude Malbec many thanks, glad you liked it. The museum and the operational team have done a great job
Glad you liked it. The Museum have done a great job restoring the incline and associated infrastructure and the guys were making a real effort with the operational display
Got to take your hats off to these old Quarry men, they roof the world. move mountains, hard man.
Thank you kind Sir for capturing and uploading this impressive demonstration. Kind Regards.
amazing! and that the whole incline appears to be constructed of slate thanks for uploading this video :)
I've seen this incline many times while on holiday in the area, unfortunately I've never seen it working. Absolutely fascinating to see how it was operated and how the operation differs from the other somewhat more basic inclines neighbouring it.
Impressive display!
WOW that's awesome...................
Anyone else missed the moment the video switched from sepia to full color? What a cool old machine. Necessity is a mother!
wow this is like Owen in the Thomas and Friends Blue Mountain Mystery movie
Oh yeah!
And not a high viz jacket in sight.Lovely
This is probably the original basis of Owen the Incline Engine from the Thomas & Friends movie: Blue Mountain Mystery.
With some differences obviously being that this incline uses gravity and not a steam power pulley like what we see with Owen and this incline does not have a transfer table at the bottom to transfer slate from the narrow gauge line to the standard gauge line
I wonder how long it took to lay that slate making the incline. :-/
看着很好，省力结构
It would have been good to see the braking system. Thank you for a great video.
If they have restored it “as built” the brake was a massive band around the winding drum, but unfortunately when I filmed this there was no public access to the winding house
some full trucks where being winched down the slope when some empty trucks became derailed
the winch groaned
"break it! snap it!'' said the trucks
and they did....
ToaTakanuva7 Presents BIONICLESAILORMOON no different than hoisting or lowering a large ships anchors, in fact easier. Each car acts as a counter weight.
We have a long horrendous incline in the South Island of New Zealand, serving a coal mine. Unfortunately, most of the works are now long gone. However, you can take a trip down the coal min e.
The one in the South Island New Zealand is the Denniston Incline. Well worth a visit if you are in Westpost, there is also a Coal Muesem in Westport that has a lot of infomation on Coal mining and the Denniston Incline. There are clip on You Tube on The Denniston Incline. At least they are restoring The Denniston. Cheers.
It’s amazing what can be done with time and money - when I lived in NZ in the 1960’s the highlight of many children’s playgrounds was the old steam loco you could play on, I understand that many of these have subsequently been rescued and returned to steam!
it is his basis
How often do they operate the incline would love to see it all working
kinetic .rail I think it's only a couple of times a year, best to try the National Slate Museum website or even give them a call : 0300 111 2 333
If you want to see what the higher levels of the Quarry look like and some of the abandoned inclines watch this video czcams.com/video/2UR7t3-3Jqs/video.html that I took from a DJI Mavic drone in 2017
It looks as though the entire ramp, top to bottom, is built with slate? No mortar? Just slate stacked upon slate?
I don’t know about no mortar, but yes made of slate
Specially I believe the slate that wasn't good enough to sell. The locals built practically everything out of it, which makes sense really. Why transport material up into the mountains, when the material you're literally carving out of the mountain is perfect for the the job.
How many died?
check out the incline railway up lookout mountain in chattanogga tn . USA
Is slate still worked, transported & sold thru the museum?
They sell slate gift items, but the quarry is not worked, however nearby quarries are still active
@@MrRnipperBrockleBroadcasting so it is a working display only. Great to see working as l have only seen a boat carrying incline at Ironbridge gorge museum without the mech insitu
@@Domdeone1 Yes the incline is purely a working exhibit to demonstrate the principles of the inclines, and I believe that it is only run occasionally. The museum has in the past also run demonstrations of the hand cutting and shaping of slates. On the other side of the mountain the Penrhyn quarry is still active I believe, but using modern equipment see www.welshslates.com
Does this still exist?
Yes Nick, it’s part of the National Slate Museum and is just above the Llanberis Lake Railway. Not sure how often it is actually operated
Excellent video, many thanks. We havent always been a second rate piss poor nation like we are now !.
Be proud. You're letting them win with that mentality
made by the pre-Incans from Machu Picchu.
Difyr ofnadwy, rhyfedd clywed nhw'n siarad Saesneg, tra roedd gweithwyr y chwarel yn Gymraeg...
That's easy for you to say! ;-)