Snowdon Mountain Railway A national park has delayed any decision on ditching the English name of “Snowdon” despite calls for Wales’ highest peak to only be referred to by its Welsh name of “Yr Wyddfa”. With the motion having also called for the park to use “Eryri” rather than “Snowdonia” in future, authority chiefs have instead set up a working group to consider its future policy on Welsh place names. The park was established in 1951, covering 827 square miles (2,140 km2) of mainly mountainous land in Gwynedd and Conwy counties. An earlier petition calling for the national park to drop “Snowdon” and “Snowdonia” was rejected by the Senedd last year after it was found to be the responsibility of the park itself rather than Cardiff Bay.