Rhyd Ddu is a station on the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway, which was built in 1881 as the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Moel Tryfan Undertaking to carry dressed slate to Dinas Junction on the LNWR. It has also previously been named both "Snowdon" and "South Snowdon".
Garratt NG143 in 2023 arriving into the Porthmadog Bound Platform April 2023
Northerly view of Rhyd Ddu station in the final stages of construction on 26 May 2003. Diesel loco Conway Castle hauls a PW train with a tamping machine in the background.
The Bodysgallen Pullman Car at Rhyd Ddu on the afternoon of 18 August 2003
Looking south the evening (7 April 2006) before re-opening after major rebuilding in 2006
The Welsh Highland Railway is a 25-mile (40.2 km) long, restored 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in narrow gauge heritage railway in the Welsh county of Gwynedd, operating from Caernarfon to Porthmadog, and passing through a number of popular tourist destinations including Beddgelert and the Aberglaslyn Pass. At Porthmadog it connects with the Ffestiniog Railway and to the short Welsh Highland Heritage Railway. In Porthmadog it uses the United Kingdom's only mixed gauge flat rail crossing.
WHR locomotive K1, the first Garratt articulated locomotive, at Snowdon Ranger halt with train and Snowdonia behind
Welsh Highland Railway K1 at Caernarfon station
WHR NG87 in blue near Rhyd-Ddu
Portmadog to Caernarfon train