Rails To Corwen: Arrival of the Railway in the Vale of Edeyrnion, by Dennis Wyn Williams
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Rails To Corwen: Arrival of the Railway in the Vale of Edeyrnion, by Dennis Wyn Williams
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The story of the building of the railway in the Vale of Edeyrnion, North Wales in the mid-nineteenth century unfolds a fascinating sequence of events. Once the railway had arrived the impact on the local economy, in particular agriculture and slate, was significant. No longer was agriculture dependent on canalways and coastal shipping. It remodelled marketing of livestock which was crucial to developing the local economy. and increasing the prosperity of the local inhabitants. Slate production in local quarries increased. By the end of the 1860’s the total slate production in Wales had reached 350,00 tons per year. The local Penarth quarry’s contribution to this was small in comparison to the larger quarries of North-West Wales but nevertheless increased both production and employment to levels higher than ever seen prior to the arrival of the railway. A consequence of this was the increase in the volume of transportation resulting in almost doubling the numbers employed in the slate quarries. With its increased wealth the area witnessed many new businesses relocate to the valley. It changed the lives of the ordinary inhabitants who for the first time were able to travel by train to the seaside and Christmas Pantomimes. The first railway to actually arrive in Corwen was the Denbigh, Ruthin & Corwen Railway in September 1864, with the Llangollen & Corwen Railway following in April 1865. It was however in 1860 that the real story begins, when both railways received Royal Assent. The construction is an episode in itself. We discover the chicanery of one of the contractors whose prevarication delayed the arrival of the Ruthin & Corwen Railway. Human tragedy in the building of the railway was frequent - three navvies were killed on the ‘Trewyn Cutting’. The number of railway casualties during the early years is quite alarming, and the way in which these fatalities are reported in the press is so graphical as to be gruesome to say the least, with scant regard for families of the victims concerned. With the opening of the Ruthin to Corwen line we unearth a commemorative poem by one of Wales’ leading poets. And what of the tree planters in Llangwm in the early 1800’s - did they envisage that their saplings would grow to become part of the ‘iron road’ some sixty years later? Where would Corwen’s station be located? Due to the way in which the river Dee flooded it was envisaged at one time that this would be on its north side and some way out of the town. The social and economic benefits of the railway are clearly seen as detailed in reports of a variety of ‘Excursions’ to the seaside, as well as introducing the people of the Vale of Edeyrnion to the delight of a winter ‘Pantomime’. And how else would a slate quarry’s ‘Brass-Band’ travel to perform for one of its owner’s? It is ironic that almost a hundred years prior to the closure of the Ruabon to Barmouth railway, we discover details of the ‘Great Flood at Corwen’ which immobilised the railway only four months following its opening. The book itself begins with the end of the line together with a brief analysis detailing the closure and some of the grave errors behind it which, while not attempting to absolve the infamous Dr Beeching of ‘brutally mangling’ the local railway, does at least part remove the horns from his head but not the axe from his hand. A considerable amount of the text in this book chronicles events leading up to the opening of the railway to the Vale of Edeyrnion as they appeared in the two newspapers serving the area at that time - the ‘Carnarvon & Denbigh Herald’ and the Welsh language newspaper ‘Y Baner ac Amserau Cymru’ (The Banner and Welsh Times), as well as numerous facts gleaned from a wide number of published books. The statistics on which I draw conclusions are more than mere conjecture, and are taken from the most reliable of sources - Railway returns published in Parliamentary Papers, Inland Transport Statistics and British Rail reports.
Rails To Corwen: Arrival of the Railway in the Vale of Edeyrnion, by Dennis Wyn Williams- Published on: 2015-11-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.21" h x .31" w x 6.14" l, .44 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 134 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A must buy for Railroad enthusiasts By Galanthus I personally found the story most interesting providing an interesting insight into the lives of people within that part of Wales in the mid to late 1800’s and how this improved for many - the analyses I’m sure did not come from newspapers alone!However, if the author has no newspapers of that era to reference for information where does he obtain this from? The synopsis clearly state “the main text of the book concerns itself with the building of and arrival of the railway in the Vale of Edeyrnion” which is the district of Corwen, North Wales and does it really well.Great book for ex-pats. An excellent Chritmas present possibly!
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