Cycle up, Tumble down #-3 Traditional Cache
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Cycle up, Tumble down #-3
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An extension of the 20 caches already placed on a section of National Cycle Route No. 47. This is a smaller walk and is good for children if the other walk is too daunting. 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.
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(Decrypt)
yrns naq fgbar b syntr