Snowdon Mountain Railway - Satellite Oddity, Snowdonia, Wales.
N 53° 06.975 W 004° 07.175
30U E 425067 N 5885788
Snowdon Mountain Railway featured on Virtual Globetrotting takes you on a journey of a lifetime to the rooftop of Wales. The peak at Snowdon 3,560ft dominates the landscape of Snowdonia National Park in North Wales.
Waymark Code: WMP54H
Location: North Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/02/2015
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Rheilffordd yr Wyddfa (Snowdon Mountain Railway) is a narrow gauge rack and pinion mountain railway located in Snowdonia National Park, North Wales. It is a tourist railway that travels for about 5 miles from Llanberis station rising to the summit of Snowdon, at 3,560 feet the highest peak in Wales.
The Snowdon Mountain Railway (SMR) is the only rack and pinion railway in the UK. For more than 100 years of operation it has remained a popular tourist attraction.
The railway is operated in some of the harshest weather conditions in Britain. Single carriage trains are pushed up the mountain by either steam locomotives or diesel locos. Arriving at the peak with spectacular views.
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