Fly Wheel Fly Traditional Cache

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bshwckr: The muggle locals are onto this one. I will archive for now, maybe resurrect later if the location is available.

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Hidden : 5/24/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The old fly wheel from the Aberdare Central Colliery.
You will need to bring your own pen. Lots of parking, an information centre and toilets nearby.

The sinking of two shafts on the Aberdare Central Colliery lease commenced on Monday 26th October 1914.A small electricity generating plant was installed at the colliery on Wednesday 28th July 1915. As the sinking work proceeded, small forcing fans were established to provide ventilation in the shafts. Whilst the shaft sinking work was being carried out, a standard gauge branch rail track was constructed to link the Aberdare Railways to Cessnock with this new mine workings. The junction was made at a point near the Kearsley Road level crossing. During 1916 construction was commenced to build pit-top buildings, two poppet heads, dams, etc. The 1917 Mines Department Annual Report informs that the Aberdare Central Colliery shafts had reached the coal seam early that year.

The Aberdare Central Colliery Branch spur railway was completed in September 1917. Records of the East Greta Coal Mining Company, the operator of the Aberdare Railway, show that the junction connection to the main line for proper safe-working was not completed until May 1918. The first full train of coal production despatched from Aberdare Central Colliery for shipment ran on the 15th May 1918. Previous to that date, in the first months of 1918 some "short trains" were hauled by the Caledonian Collieries Company's construction locomotive to the exchange standage loop on the Aberdare Central Colliery Branch Railway adjacent to the main Aberdare Railway. From this loop, the East Greta Coal Mining Company's locomotives hauled these "short trains" to Aberdare Shaft Colliery sidings, from whence this coal was forwarded for shipment as portion of some Aberdare Colliery Up trains.
After the closure of Aberdare Central Colliery, this fly-wheel was transferred to it's current location, as part of the District's exhibition on mining equipment.

Lots more about the Aberdare Central Colliery can be found here. (visit link)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Cbffvoyl gur ovttrfg pnpur pbagnvare lbh unir rire sbhaq ohg jvgu bar bs gur fznyyrfg ybt obbx erprcgnpyrf.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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