Snowdon Mountain Railway - a photo on Flickriver

            Summit station on the right with the visitors centre and works train a few weeks before the visitors centre was due to reopen headed by Hunslet diesel number 9 "Ninian" (1986).  The summit of snowdon / Yr Wyddfa to the left. Photographed on 9th June 2023 and a busy day at the summit due to the warm weather. 

The Snowdon Mountain Railway (SMR) is a narrow gauge rack and pinion mountain railway in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It is a tourist railway that travels for 4.7 miles (7.6 km) from Llanberis to the summit of Snowdon, the highest peak in Wales. 
The SMR is the only public rack and pinion railway in the United Kingdom. The line is built to 800 mm gauge (2 ft 7+1⁄2 in gauge), a gauge it has in common with several rack railways in Switzerland. The line uses the Abt rack system devised by Roman Abt, a Swiss locomotive engineer. The system comprises a length of toothed rail (the rack) between the running rails which meshes with a toothed wheel (the pinion) mounted on each rail vehicle's driving axle. These pinions provide all the traction and braking effort, and the vehicle's wheels are free to revolve on the drive axles and serve only for support and guidance. The line was opened at Easter 1896 and after more than 100 years of operation it remains a popular tourist attraction, carrying more than 140,000 passengers annually. In 2006 the Snowdon summit cafe was demolished and construction of a new visitor centre was started.

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Taken in: UK / Wales / Beddgelert / Nant Gwynant (show map)

Taken on: June 9, 2023

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