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Majestic Snowdon dominates the
glorious, ancient landscape of North Wales. At 3,560ft (1085m) it
is a true mountain and a place of legend - said to be the burial
place of the giant ogre Rhita, vanquished by King Arthur. Some believe
that Arthur’s knights still sleep beneath. Since 1896, the
Snowdon Mountain Railway has been making it easy to claim this mountain
peak as one of your lifetime achievements. In a tremendously ambitious
feat of engineering, and uniquely in Britain, a rack and pinion railway
was built which rises to within 66ft of the summit of the highest
mountain in England and Wales. read
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