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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
16887
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/02/1996
Date of Amendment
01/02/1996
Name of Property
Railway Bridge at Former Llechwedd Sidings
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Ffestiniog
Town
Locality
Llechwedd Slate Mine
Easting
269693
Northing
346848
Street Side
W
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.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
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.
Interior
Reason for designation
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