Casgliadau Arlein

Collection of slides forming lecture "Rails in the Slate Industry" by D.R. Geering, UMIST 3rd year Mechanical Engineering Projects, c.1975 (copy of lecture notes in related material).

Here a 20 h.p. Ruston Diesel locomotive waits to haul the train, usually of three or four stones, to the foot of the upper incline. This locomotive has been re-built with an exhaust conditioner and a water tank in place of the radiator.

the line of spare wagons on the right and the compressor plant in the background.