Since 1896 visitors have been travelling to Llanberis, in the heart of the Snowdonia National Park to experience the unique rail journey to the summit of the highest mountain in Wales & England, Snowdon.
The Snowdon Mountain Railway is the only ABT rack & pinion railway in the UK, with original Swiss steam locomotives.
The video captures our visit to the railway over two separate days in June.
I have included sea levels at each location.
We travelled on the train to the summit & back during our fist visit on 4th June. I also filmed a later steam departure at Hebron 1069ft 326 m above sea level.
I returned again early on 6th June to video the first steam departure of the day at 9.30 am with No.5 Moel Siabod climbing at Hebron. The loco we had travelled behind to the summit on the 4th.
Prior to that I captured a light engine test run of No.2 Enid at Hebron. Followed by the first passenger train of the day with Diesel No.10 Yeti.
The sound of steam locomotives climbing to the summit of Snowdon on this rack & pinion track is truly unique.
The majority of the shots were handheld as I could only use a tripod on the line side locations at Hebron.
As the weather was very warm unfortunately there is little steam.
Plus I was eaten alive by midges!
I make no apology that the video is long but it does include our journey to the summit plus shots of locos at Hebron working hard.
Enjoy!
