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Snowdonia

Snowdonia 2012

Design Tony Boydell Art Tony Boydell , Klemens Franz , Charlie Paull Publisher Surprised Stare Games Ltd
7.3 /10
BGG rating
#872
BGG rank
3.0
Weight
1–5
Players
4
Best at
30–90
Minutes
10
Age
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Expansions & Promos

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Snowdonia: Grand Tour 2026 Snowdonia: Upgrade Pack 2019 Snowdonia: Share and Share Alike / 18XX Train 2018 Snowdonia: Time-travelling Police Box 2018 Snowdonia: Tsavo Lions Promo Card 2018 Brettspiel Adventskalender 2017 2017 promo Snowdonia: Puffing Billy 2017 Snowdonia: Rolling Stock #1 2017 Snowdonia: Supply Wagon/Cannon 2017 Snowdonia: The North Pole & The Great Bridge Scrapyard Promo Tile 2017 promo Snowdonia: The Siege of Petersburg / The Channel Tunnel 1881 2017 Brettspiel Easter Basket 2016 2016 promo Snowdonia: Candace Camille 2016 Snowdonia: Mrs Larkin's Washing Machine 2016 promo Snowdonia: Seasons 2016 Snowdonia: The Lord Mayor's State Coach 2016 Snowdonia: Wagons Expansion 2016 promo Snowdonia: Card 31 of 30 2015 promo Snowdonia: The Battlepuppy Express 2015 Snowdonia: Trans-Australian Railway & The Daffodil Line 2015 Snowdonia: Pen-y-Gwryd Hotel 2014 Snowdonia: The Necropolis Line & Neuhauser Bockerlbahn 2014 Snowdonia: Bayerische Zugspitzbahn 2013 Snowdonia: Britannia Bridge 2013 Snowdonia: Erweiterung 2013 Snowdonia: Jungfraubahn & Mount Washington 2013 Snowdonia: Lost Train Promo Card 2013 Snowdonia: The Daffodil Line 2013 Snowdonia: Essen 2012 Promo Cards 2012

About the Game

The peaks of Snowdonia rise before you, encased in mist, their summits barely visible. The highest is Snowdon (Wyddfa) herself at 1,085 metres. The year is 1894, and the Snowdon Mountain Tramroad and Hotels Company Limited has been formed to build a branch line from Llanberis to the summit. You can scarcely believe it's possible!

In Snowdonia, players represent work gangs providing labour for the construction of the Snowdon Mountain Railway. Unlike other train games you will have to excavate your way up a mountain side, as well as make and lay the track, construct viaducts and stations. All this in competition with the weather of the Welsh mountains (and the game itself)!

You may be assisted by a train (though that's not always best) and you'll be able to collect essential materials from the Stock Yard. You will obtain special work contracts that give you bonuses.

Can you contribute more than the other players to the magnificence of the Snowdon Mountain Railway?

Filed Under

Categories
Trains
Mechanics
Events Hand Management Open Drafting Turn Order: Claim Action Worker Placement
Also known as
Mountain Railways
BGG ratings
5,168 · geek rating 6.73
BGG data
refreshed Sep 7, 2026

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