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Published: 2016-08-14 18:01:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 848; Favourites: 65; Downloads: 0
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The mountain railway train of Mount Snowdon.The trains take a carriage up to the visitor centre / cafe at the top before descending again a short time later.
The angle of ascent is very sharp. a gradient of 1:5 to 1:7.7
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I wonder who went uphill faster -- you or the train! I rode it both ways when I visited, and despite the wooden seat and bumpy ride managed to fall asleep on the way down.
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You've not submitted to the group for a long time.
I thought you'd left the country, or worse.
And you should have gone on the train, I wouldn't be walking up all that.
Actually, I don't think I could walk up that. lol.
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That was on the way up. The locomotive is always on the downhill side of the train. They aren't coupled so that in a derailment the locomotive will crash but the passenger car will brake. There was an opening day incident that saw a train crash down the mountain in 1896. Wikipedia even has a humourous anecdote from two climbers who thought a rock was falling but the locomotive shot past them. That incident had one fatality who had jumped from the passenger car and banged his head.
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My dear lady, I would love to ride that train. Did you ?
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No, I chose to walk up the mountain instead.
I don't particularly like heights, what I hate even more than being high up is being trapped in a box high up.
On a side note, I did make it all of the way up to Hafod Eyrie at the top under my own power but returned with no coffee hadas there seemed to be about a hundred people queueing to get a cuppa at the summit's cafe!
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