Photo of Snowdon Mountain Railway, a visitor attraction near Llanberis in Eryri, Gwynedd, north Wales.

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Snowdon Mountain Railway

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Rack railway climbing to Yr Wyddfa's summit.

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The Snowdon Mountain Railway is the only public rack-and-pinion railway in Britain, grinding up from Llanberis to a station just below the 1,085-metre summit of Yr Wyddfa. It opened in 1896 and still hauls its carriages up the gradient on a toothed centre rail. Tickets are timed and sell out in summer, and trains turn back short of the top in bad weather.

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