Kerry - Tramway Kerry Station
Creator: wavydale
Deployed: YES
Deployed On: Jan 30, 2012
Location: N/A
First to Capture: ccrevell
Last Capture: May 25, 2012
Number of Captures: 5
Decimal: 52.50513 -3.2334
Degrees: 52° 30.308 -3° 14.004
NOT AT THE BUILDING ITSELF!! The white/pale blue building that can be seen 20 Mtrs from the place you will find the munzee is the Former Cambrian Railway station building for the village of Kerry and was the terminus for the Kerry branch, there was a goods yard used mainly for transportation of sheep and also timber from the local estate. The Kerry Tramway was a 2 ft (610 mm) gauge narrow gauge railway built in 1887 to serve the timber workings and slab quarry to the south of the village of Kerry, near Newtown in mid Wales.
The railway ran from the Cambrian Railways Kerry railway station at Glanmule to the Brynllywarch estate owned by Christopher Naylor. The line served the timber forests on the estate, as well as a slab quarry and general estate traffic. It was worked by the Bagnall locomotive Excelsior. In 1895 Naylor inherited Haggerston Castle and left Bryn Llywarch; the rolling stock of the railway was sold and the track was lifted.
During the First World War there was a great demand for timber. In 1917 the government Timber Supply Department (which later became the Forestry Commission) relaid much of the tramway to serve the sawmill on the estate. The railway and timber felling operations were mainly manned by German prisoners of war under military control. During the war, the line was worked by the Kerr Stuart locomotive Diana.
After hostilities ceased the tramway continued to operate. In early 1919 a petrol locomotive arrived from Baguely and in 1922 a third locomotive, the Haig class Kashmir arrived.
The line closed again in 1922 and all the tracks lifted except the Lower Rhos to Pentre section. This last remaining section was worked using an unknown 0-4-0 side tank locomotive for several more years.
Hint: NOTE NOT AT THE ACTUAL CO-ORDINATES BUT VERY CLOSE...It is under the RED BOX which is roadside (no longer within the telephone box that is due to be removed)
The railway ran from the Cambrian Railways Kerry railway station at Glanmule to the Brynllywarch estate owned by Christopher Naylor. The line served the timber forests on the estate, as well as a slab quarry and general estate traffic. It was worked by the Bagnall locomotive Excelsior. In 1895 Naylor inherited Haggerston Castle and left Bryn Llywarch; the rolling stock of the railway was sold and the track was lifted.
During the First World War there was a great demand for timber. In 1917 the government Timber Supply Department (which later became the Forestry Commission) relaid much of the tramway to serve the sawmill on the estate. The railway and timber felling operations were mainly manned by German prisoners of war under military control. During the war, the line was worked by the Kerr Stuart locomotive Diana.
After hostilities ceased the tramway continued to operate. In early 1919 a petrol locomotive arrived from Baguely and in 1922 a third locomotive, the Haig class Kashmir arrived.
The line closed again in 1922 and all the tracks lifted except the Lower Rhos to Pentre section. This last remaining section was worked using an unknown 0-4-0 side tank locomotive for several more years.
Hint: NOTE NOT AT THE ACTUAL CO-ORDINATES BUT VERY CLOSE...It is under the RED BOX which is roadside (no longer within the telephone box that is due to be removed)