This one is coming down while the one we were in was going up. As I said yesterday, the engine does not pull the passengers' cabin while ascending but pushes it from the rear. On the way down it operates vice-versa. Looks a bit funny though.
The Snowdon Mountain Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd yr Wyddfa) is a narrow gauge rack and pinion mountain railway. The lowland terminus is at Llanberis. The railway is a single track line with passing loops. It is 4 miles 1188 yards (7.524 km) long, with an average gradient of 1 in 7.86 reaching 1 in 5.5 in a number of places. The railway rises a total of 3,140 feet, from 353 feet above sea level at Llanberis to 3,493 feet at Summit station. Mount Snowdon is 3560 feet high.
The railway is operated in some of the harshest weather conditions in Britain, with services curtailed from reaching the summit in bad weather and remaining closed during the winter from November to mid-March.
The railway was constructed between December 1894, and 1896, at a total cost of £63,800 (£5,474,000 as of 2011). In 2009. A new visitor centre 'Hafod Eryri' (loosely translated from Welsh as 'high residence of Snowdonia') replaced a café at the summit
