Snowdonia’s Secret WW2 Bomb Store in the Mountains left Abandoned!

In this explore, we head up to Snowdonia in North Wales, and visit an old RAF bomb and ammo store, called Glyn Rhonwy bomb store - also known as Llanberis Bomb Store.
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*INFO* - Llanberis Bomb Store is situated within an old quarry site, and was used to store WW2 Bombs and amunition - It was built to house 18,000 tons of bombs. The site also had a functioning railway line to ferry the cargo in and out of the storage unit - this terminated underground and consisted of a loading bay. The site consisted of a number of deep open pits, linked together by tunnels.
Narrow gauge railway lines entered the lower level of the depot. It also had an underground depot and was adapted to produce a store with two floors throughout, with electric lifts transporting bombs to the upper floor.
In January 1942, two-thirds of the structure collapsed, burying 14,000 tons of bombs. The majority were recovered and although the remaining tunnels were eventually cleared of debris, no ammunition was ever stored underground at Llanberis again.
The depot closed in July 1956, however some 30 years later in the 1970s, the site was used to dispose of old and surplus bombs, bullets and grenades.
It was confirmed that 70,000 German tabun nerve agent shells seized following World War II were held at the Llanberis quarry for a short time before they were moved to another facility near Caernarfon, and eventually dumped at sea.
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