Work continues apace on Snowdon's summit despite the stormy weather you would expect at this time of year. Days like today when the first train taking workers up the mountain had to turn around at Clogwyn Station owing to 69 m.p.h. winds are to be expected.


Foundation units stock-piled at Clogwyn.

Three machine operators have been making good progress excavating the footings. At the same time the flatbed has been ferrying the foundation units as far as the holding compound at Clogwyn Station so that they can quickly be shuttled to the top when required in the Spring.


Flatbed at Clogwyn in conditions too windy to use the crane for off-loading.

Before work stops for the winter it is planned to take down the fencing enclosing the building site, remove the portacabin and back-fill the footing with rubble as a matter of safety. The railway closed to the public in early November and the train is now only running for the purposes of track maintenance and taking the work-men to the summit. Although at the moment with the final few hundred metres of track removed for repair the work-men have to complete the trip on foot!

Work has begun on excavating the footings for the new summit building at the western end of the site. This is alongside the painstaking work of separating out the twisted tangle of metal reinforcing rods from the concrete debris. Necessary in order to comply with disposal requirements.
  
At the Llanberis train terminus the u-shaped foundation units are being stock-piled ahead of being transported up the mountain. Once there the units will be in-filled with crushed rubble from the old building and capped with a pre-cast concrete lid. At the end of each unit a steel cage will be attached and filled with concrete to form a main load bearing attachment point. Trains continue to remove skip loads of material that can't be reused from the demolition work.


Foundation units at the Snowdon Mountain Railway, Llanberis.


Digging the footings for the new cafe has began at the western end of the site.


Separating the steel reinforcing rods from the concrete rubble.