North Wales is an area of beautiful scenery and includes the Snowdonia National Park, seaside towns such as Llandudno and, Colwyn Bay, and Rhyl, and the more gentle isle of Anglesey. From Holyhead, you can catch the boat to Dublin in Ireland.

Map locator - Llandudno


Snowdonia

Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales, is in this area and it's a popular destination


Climbing Snowdon by train

The Snowdon Mountain Railway is over 100 years old now, and the old steam engines are still in use (although there are diesel engines too). It's a "rack railway" with gearwheels under the locomotives which engage in in pinion in the centre of the track to give better adhesion on the steep climb. Indeed, so steep is the line that the boilers on the steam engines are slanted to keep the water level as they climb.


Snowdon Mountain Railway

The beauty of Snowdonia continues southwards ... have a look at our Barmouth page too.

Photocredits

Pages nearby ...	Liverpool 60 kms E	Southport 70 kms NE
Barmouth 70 kms SW	Warrington 80 kms E	Preston 90 kms NE
Crewe 100 kms SE	Shrewsbury 100 kms SE	Isle of Man 100 kms NW
Manchester 110 kms E	Lancaster 110 kms NE	Telford 120 kms SE
Stoke on Trent 120 kms SE	Bolton 120 kms NE	Cheddleton 120 kms E

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