Llanberis station of the Snowdon Mountain Railway with a diesel departure.
Carriages are always propelled up the mountain. The rack can be seen between the rails.

Diesel loco no.12 "George" has just left Llanberis station and is passing the loco shed.
The smoke/steam is from one of the steam locos on shed. Unfortunately photography of the shed
is only possible from this public viewpoint - staff are not sympathetic to photographers!

Steam loco no.4 "Snowdon" departing Llanberis - a glorious exhaust sound!

No.4 "Snowdon" beginning the climb of the mountain,.
seen here just before Waterfall Halt. 15th Sept 2003

"Snowdon" passes by over the bridge, waterfall to left. This viewpoint is accessible from Llanberis
using the readily marked waterfall path. 15th Sept 2003

A diesel train seen in the vicinity of Hebron station - approx a quarter of the way to summit.15th Sept 2003

View from train at Hebron station. Despite the beautiful weather on this day
the wind strength was over 50mph on the mountain, and trains this day were unable
to proceed higher than Rocky Valley. A superb journey all the same!

We had to be content with this view of Summit Station, taken 16th Sept 2003
(the day before our visit to SMR)  from Rhyd Ddu station on the Welsh Highland Railway.
The station building, loco and a red & cream carriage can just be made out!

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