Take a Ride on the CairnGorm Mountain Railway - Visit To Scotland

Last week we took a ride on the the Caingorm Mountain Railway! We hope you enjoy our video, and Subscribe, Rate Thumbs Up, Comment and Share - it encourages us to make more videos for you! 'The CairnGorm Mountain Railway is the highest railway in the United Kingdom since it opened in 2001. The two-kilometre long funicular ascends the northern slopes of Cairn Gorm, the United Kingdom's sixth-highest mountain. The route is located within the Cairngorms National Park, the largest National Nature Reserve in Britain, near to Aviemore in the Highland council area of Scotland. The ski area also lies within the Cairngorms National Park. It is publicly owned, being operated by Cairngorm Mountain Limited and wholly owned by the Highlands and Islands Enterprise. Construction of the Cairngorm Mountain Railway started in 1999. It opened on 24 December 2001, forty years after the opening of the White Lady Chair Lift, which it replaced. The reason for the construction was that the chair lift was too sensitive to the strong winds in the area. The track is a broad gauge of 2000 mm (6 ft 6¾in). The maximum operating speed during the ski season is 10 metres per seconds (36 km/h or 22 mph). This speed is dropped to around 5 metres per second during the rest of the year. Giving approximate journey times of four minutes in winter and nine minutes during the summer (calculated without middle station stops). The single track line has a passing loop just above the middle station. During ascent ...

 

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