| | The WHR Route - the Bryngwyn Branch |
 | | The Moel Tryfan area, extending over the ridge into Dyffryn Nantlle (Nantlle Vale) is thought to be the oldest slate quarrying district in North Wales, and was probably the source of the slate used by the Romans in their fort of Segontium (whose remains and museum can be visited in Caernarfon). |
 | | This quarry was the home of the reduced height Quarry Hunslets Tryfan and Cadfan, which may have also worked the direct feeder lines to the other quarries between the wars (Moel Tryfan Quarry acquired a Ruston Hornsby loco, now preserved at the Welsh Slate Museum in Llanberis), one reputedly wearing Kathleen's chimney. |
 | | The extremity of the Cilgwyn system could be regarded as the south-western extremity of the Bryngwyn network; part is in re-use as the access road to the tip, while a final stretch (right-hand pictures) continues towards the western end of Cilgwyn, which is now in use again for the extraction and crushing of slate waste. |
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