Mount Snowden Tapestries

Mount Snowden And Snowdonia National Park Snowdonia is a region in northwest Wales concentrated around the mountains and glacial landforms of massive Snowdonia National Park. The park's historic Snowdon Mountain Railway climbs to the summit of Wales's highest mountain, Mount Snowdon, offering views across the sea to Ireland. The park is also home to an extensive network of trails, over 100 lakes and craggy peaks like Cader Idris and Tryfan. Drop me a message if you would prefer a different background or a slight change in some way to enhance the product :-) I have set a blue background on most items that needed a colour adding, I can soon change this for you By Paul Thompson Photography

This is an image, originally taken on film in 1980, of a train nearing the summit of the Snowdon Mountain Railway. The railway started operations in 1896 with a service from Llanberis to the top of Mount Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales. As an aside, there was a fatal accident on the first day of operations following a derailment as the train was too heavily laden. Extraordinarily, four of the original eight steam locomotives are still in operation (with another undergoing an overhaul), although diesel locomotives—much cheaper to run—are now making their way up the mountain, but none of the diesel locomotives were yet in service when this image was captured. For railway enthusiasts, the steam locomotives are of a 0-4-2RT config...

View of Llyn Lydaw and Llyn Glaslyn from the Llanberis path to the summit of Mount Snowdon

Views of Snowdonia from the Llanberis path to the summit of Snowdon