Summit is the southern, upper terminus of the Snowdon Mountain Railway, located within yards of the summit of Snowdon. The line starts in the valley bottom at Llanberis at an altitude of 353 ft. Summit station stands at 3,493 feet, 68 feet below the summit of the mountain, to which it is connected by a short stepped path. The station opened with the railway on 6 April 1896, but both closed the same day following an accident. They reopened a year later, on 9 April 1897.