Inland Interlude: Riding the rails of North Wales

August 2015 I was staying for the August bank holiday weekend in Llandudno. On the first day I walked up mount Snowdon , on the second I did a coast walk (more on that soon) and on the last day I decided to have a gentler day and spend the day riding around on trains, so that is what this post is about. Whilst I am writing about Snowdown I thought I’d also include this long loop around it by train, which was also very enjoyable. I was staying in Llandudno at the Travelodge there (which was actually pretty good, it was in a traditional Victorian building), however this morning I was checking out as later I’d be making the long drive home. The Welsh Highland Railway was a narrow gauge railway that ran from Caernarfon to Porthmadog, running just to the west of the summit of Snowdon. I don’t think it ever made much money and after passing through several owners and with financial problems, it was mothballed in the late 1930s. The Government requestioned much of the assets for the Second…