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Snowdon Mountain Railway
Coaling operations at the Llanberis terminal of the Snowdon Mountain Railway taken on a bright sunny day. The rack system by which the locomotives wind themselves up and down the mountainside can be seen (the average gradient of the track is 1 in 8). This shot shows a lot of smoke but in other shots I took from the same position, the view was almost completely obscured. Cheap imported coal is responsible and to think Welsh coal was famous for low smoke emitting qualities.

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