Cycle up, Tumble down #9 Traditional Cache
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This is one of a series of 20 caches we've hidden between Llanelli and Tumble along a ten mile stretch of National Cycle Route No. 47. This section of the cycle route follows the path of what was originally the Carmarthenshire Railway - the earliest operational public railway in the UK.
The Carmarthenshire Railway or Tramway
The Carmarthenshire Railway began operating as a horse-drawn railway, linking Alexander Raby’s iron furnace in the village of Cwmddyche (later Furnace) to his shipping place on the coast. It was later incorporated into the Carmarthenshire Railway when an Act of Parliament was passed in June, 1802, allowing its construction. The railway linked Raby’s furnace and various collieries to important mineral sources in the Great Mountain area, Cross Hands. Interestingly, an 1801 plan of the railway shows it passing very close to the ‘Meeting House, Tŷ Newydd’ (Adulam Chapel). The railway, the earliest operating public railway in Great Britain, consisted of horse-drawn wagons running on cast iron tram-plates. The Railroad was later replaced by the Llanelly & Mynydd Mawr Railway, which ceased operating on the closure of the Cynheidre Colliery. Its route is now marked by a cycle-way.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
va ebbgf tebjvat bhg bs gur ebpx.
Ze SJ cynprq guvf naq ur vf bire 6sg gnyy. Vs lbh ner fubegre guna guvf gurer vf n jnl gb trg vg ohg lbh unir gb pyvzo hc bagb nabgure yrqtr. Cyrnfr or irel pnershy