#clouds
Looks like those deep space pictures.
#clouds
Looks like those deep space pictures.
This is the #SnowdonMountainRailway (SMR), a narrow-gauge rack-and-pinion #mountain railway, that has been taking passengers from Llanberis to the summit since 1896 (!).
Here are some other facts you might enjoy:
- It's the only public rack-and-pinion #railway in the #UK.
- The average speed of the train is 5 mph (8 km/h).
- The total track length is 4.7 miles (7.5 km).
- It carries around 140,000 passengers each year.
- A round-trip to the summit takes approx. 2.5 hours, including a 30-minute stop at the summit visitor centre.
- From the #summit station, it's only 68 ft (21 m) to the summit cairn (though it's quite steep).
- Trains are scheduled at 30-minute intervals, subject to passenger demand.
- The SMR currently operates 3 coal-fired steam locomotives and 4 diesel locomotives. Last week, only diesel locomotives were in service, as the heritage steam locomotives typically run from June to September.
- On its official opening day in April 1896, one of the locomotives derailed and fell down the mountain, resulting in one fatality. Following this incident, the maximum allowed train weight was reduced, and a gripper system was installed on the rack railway. It's been full steam ahead ever since.
🚂🚋
(Sorry for the rabbit hole. I'm not usually into trains, but even I found it quite interesting)
#Wolken #clouds #Berggipfel #Gipfel #mountainTop #wandern #hiking #hike #Berge #mountains #mountainscape #MountainMonday #SMR #narrowGauge #narrowGaugeRailway #Zahnradbahn #rackAndPinion #trainTracks #railways #railwayTrack #railwayTracks #railroad #Schienen #Gleise #train #trains #Zug #Bahn #HeritageGreatBritain #FootpathFriday #Snowdonia #Wales
This is the #SnowdonMountainRailway (SMR), a narrow-gauge rack-and-pinion #mountain railway, that has been taking passengers from Llanberis to the summit since 1896 (!).
Here are some other facts you might enjoy:
- It's the only public rack-and-pinion #railway in the #UK.
- The average speed of the train is 5 mph (8 km/h).
- The total track length is 4.7 miles (7.5 km).
- It carries around 140,000 passengers each year.
- A round-trip to the summit takes approx. 2.5 hours, including a 30-minute stop at the summit visitor centre.
- From the #summit station, it's only 68 ft (21 m) to the summit cairn (though it's quite steep).
- Trains are scheduled at 30-minute intervals, subject to passenger demand.
- The SMR currently operates 3 coal-fired steam locomotives and 4 diesel locomotives. Last week, only diesel locomotives were in service, as the heritage steam locomotives typically run from June to September.
- On its official opening day in April 1896, one of the locomotives derailed and fell down the mountain, resulting in one fatality. Following this incident, the maximum allowed train weight was reduced, and a gripper system was installed on the rack railway. It's been full steam ahead ever since.
🚂🚋
(Sorry for the rabbit hole. I'm not usually into trains, but even I found it quite interesting)
#Wolken #clouds #Berggipfel #Gipfel #mountainTop #wandern #hiking #hike #Berge #mountains #mountainscape #MountainMonday #SMR #narrowGauge #narrowGaugeRailway #Zahnradbahn #rackAndPinion #trainTracks #railways #railwayTrack #railwayTracks #railroad #Schienen #Gleise #train #trains #Zug #Bahn #HeritageGreatBritain #FootpathFriday #Snowdonia #Wales
Seven pictures with the theme #AboveTheClouds
#Hiking #Clouds #Mountains #Photography #LandscapePhotography
Seven pictures with the theme #AboveTheClouds
#Hiking #Clouds #Mountains #Photography #LandscapePhotography
Glacier National Park today (Lake McDonald). For more information https://www.nps.gov/glac/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/glac/elrod/sec1.htm and #glacier #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #montana Image credit National Park Service and the Glacier National Park Conservancy #mtwx #fall #lakemcdonald #clouds #trees #mountains #lake #colors #snow
Glacier National Park today (Lake McDonald). For more information https://www.nps.gov/glac/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/glac/elrod/sec1.htm and #glacier #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #montana Image credit National Park Service and the Glacier National Park Conservancy #mtwx #fall #lakemcdonald #clouds #trees #mountains #lake #colors #snow
Sonnenuntergang am Jasmunder Bodden 🌅📷
#sonnenuntergang #nature #naturephotography #landscape #pixelfed #photo #photography #landscapephotgraphy #nikon #travelphotography #travel #kkuehne #sunset #sundown #clouds #himmel #outdoor #outdoors #sky #landschaft #hiking #balticsea #ostsee #europe #natur #landschaft #silentsunday
Sonnenuntergang am Jasmunder Bodden 🌅📷
#sonnenuntergang #nature #naturephotography #landscape #pixelfed #photo #photography #landscapephotgraphy #nikon #travelphotography #travel #kkuehne #sunset #sundown #clouds #himmel #outdoor #outdoors #sky #landschaft #hiking #balticsea #ostsee #europe #natur #landschaft #silentsunday
"Almost a religious moment"
"Almost a religious moment"
Looking out over the largest olive grove in Greece 🌿
#mountains#MountainMonday #nature #europe #greece #travel #naturephotography #photography #pixelfed #photo #landscape #landscapephotography #sea #sunset #trees #clouds
The clouds of a summer.
Looking out over the largest olive grove in Greece 🌿
#mountains#MountainMonday #nature #europe #greece #travel #naturephotography #photography #pixelfed #photo #landscape #landscapephotography #sea #sunset #trees #clouds
I like it when they do this.
I like it when they do this.
Walking back from a gig tonight, I noticed lots of people in Castle Street taking pictures. So I turned around to see what they were photographing.
And this is what I saw.