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THE FIRST OF MANY
The Glyn Valley Tramway Group’s first replica vehicle - a one-ton Slate Wagon - arrived in Glyn during August.
The wagon - built by a group of GVT Group members based in Essex and taking well over a 1000 hours of their spare time - has been constructed to the Tramway’s unique track gauge of 2ft 4½ins and is an authentic replica of the type which worked on the Tramway in both horse and steam days. Some forty of these wagons were used on the Tramway to transport finished roof slates from the Wynne and Cambrian Quarries above Glyn Cieiriog, down the tramway - initially to the canal at Gledrid Wharf,and then latterly to the transhipment sidings at Chirk Station where the slates were transferred by hand into standard Great Western Railway wagons. The slates ended up all over the UK, but mainly on the roofs of terraced houses that sprang up across London and a number of provincial cities during the late-Victorian era.
The transfer of the wagon was sponsored by Creativity Jones Design of Tregieriog, to whom the Group are most grateful.
The transfer of the wagon was sponsored by Creativity Jones Design of Tregieriog, to whom the Group are most grateful.
Our pictures show the loading of the wagon for its journey to Glyn, using a specially-constructed loading ramp, and members of the intrepid removal team, including John G. White (right) who organised the whole undertaking.
