Wales Monorail

[murrayec]

 

[Metrovik]

Saw this the other day myself. Nice video, I wonder what the reason they decide to pile on top of each other was though?

[jhb171achill]

Can you imagine what Mr. Elfin Safety would have to say about that today!

[Mayner]

On 23/9/2025 at 8:33 AM, jhb171achill said:

Can you imagine what Mr. Elfin Safety would have to say about that today!

As a retired Health & Safety Inspector (Irl & NZ) Mr Elfin Safety would not be interested if they came across a "ceir gwyllt" (wild car) operation unless people were paying or being paid to ride the cars. 

Back in the day the Quarrymen (& one Quarrywoman) were on their way home from work using their own ceir gwyllt (not legally working and covered by health and safety legislation, but if they were getting paid or the quarry supplied the car it would have been a totally different situation.

https://www.vintag.es/2023/12/car-gwyllt.html

First question I asked myself when attending an accident scene or responding to a complaint was whether Mr Elfin Safety, Police or Council was the regulator and try and if in doubt kick for touch 

It looks like the ceir gwyllt were used on one Bleanau quarry until the 1940s, it looks like the guys piling up may have been playing to the camera. Two of the remaining quarries in Bleanau largely became tourist operations by the 1980s though no ceir gwyllt  re-enactment. One of the quaries takes visitors underground using an inclined cable car.

In certain respects the risks involved in riding a wild car on an incline are not a lot different to motor cycle scrambling or advanced mountain bike/BMX. The Festiniog continues to operate Gravity Slate trains (loose coupled) over its main line during galas and events, with Brakemen strategically positioned in wagons throughout the train, presumably covered by the railways Safety Case.