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Cwmorthin Falls


Cwmorthin Falls
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Copyright: Matthew Harrison (matthew) Silver Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 19 W: 1 N: 83] (336)
Genre: Landscapes
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-02-05
Categories: Mountain
Camera: Fuji Finepix S9500
Exposure: f/4.5, 1/200 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-09-07 15:24
Viewed: 1000
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Cwmorthin Falls taken from the Ffestiniog Railway leaving Tanygrisiau.
Tanygrisiau, or more properly 'Tan y grisiau', is Welsh for "below the steps", referring to steps, which have long since disappeared, leading up to the original slate mine above the village. Tanygrisiau was famous for its slate mining, producing a high quality black slate that was used across the world.

Tanygrisiau railway station is on the famous Ffestiniog Railway, a narrow gauge railway built to carry slate from the mines down to the sea at Porthmadog where it was shipped all around the world, mostly for use in roofing.

The village was the site of a near disaster on Christmas Day 1918. At the time when all the inhabitants of the village were in chapel the mine workings collapsed. Had this collapse taken place a few hours earlier, many hundreds of miners, newly returned from the first world war, would have died crushed under millions of tons of rock. Many of the inhabitants put this down to divine intervention.

The nearby Ffestiniog power station, the high Stwlan Dam and the Tanygrisiau Reservoir are part of a pumped storage hydroelectricity installation.
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Witaj Matthew,
Beautiful view. Nice frame. Pretty colours. To be visible how this water falls from rock. A great thing .
Pozdrawiam - Roma

I like your photo Matthew. The sharpness and natural color make it look very natural and realistic. It looks like a pleasant place to visit.

TFS
Evelynn : )

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