![]() The owners of the mines wandered elsewhere to find more minerals to keep them going, and slate was discovered east of the former copper mines, and the first slabs of slate were cut out of the mountains in 1863. Unfourtantly, the plateway was short lived and the copper veins ran out in 1810 leading to the closure of the plateway. The origins of the Skarloey Railway began in 1806 when a plateway was built from Ward Fell to Balladswail to transport copper to the sea.
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