Daily Mail Good news railway article: Vintage Victorian steam loco at Snowdon

[Waldgrun]

I have just seen the following

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4671660/Victorian-steam-train-mountain-track.html

"The easy way to climb a mountain: Vintage Victorian steam train is back on track to Britain's highest station after 17-year overhaul

Train is carrying passengers up Mount Snowdon, Wales, after £60,000 refurbishment work to restore it

Locomotive has been in sidings since 2000 but is now back open to the public on the historic railway

Train first took passengers along the rugged mountain track when the railway opened back in 1896"

For the Mail not a bad item, but can anyone else spot the error in the article?

 

[AlterEgo]

"Enthusiasts feared the train would run again"

 

[phantomphish]

Apart from typos and dubious understanding of railway terminology...

The inclusion of a photograph of a nearby but very different railway! :roll:

 

[Deepgreen]

It should be obvious to anyone with a modicum of intelligence that anything spouted by the 'Daily Mail' should, at the very least, be ignored.

 

[ejstubbs]

The summit station on the Snowdon Mountain Railway is not the highest station in Britain, as the Mail's headline claims. That would be the Ptarmigan station at the summit of the Cairngorm Mountain Railway, at 3,599ft. the Snowdon summit station is 106ft lower.

"The train" pictured standing in the summit station is a diesel.

You'd think that someone would have noticed that the photo of Rhyd Ddu, as now is, is not of the Snowdon Mountain Railway, given how the article makes so much of it being a rack-and-pinion railway...

 

[341o2]

I like

the unique mountain railway lien

 

[phantomphish]

- it must be said though, that for a heritage railway appealing to tourists as well as enthusiasts, any such publicity is good publicity - I bet a lot of people have read this article without any previous knowledge of the Snowdon Mountain Railway, and if even one person / family make the trip as a result that has to be a good thing.

As an aside, wouldn't it be lovely to see Snowdon Ranger or Moel Tryfan back in steam at Rhyd Ddu?! I know there are loads of valid practical reasons why this won't happen but it's a nice thought...