Tourist catches 4 trains to visit wettest place in UK – ‘I must be mad’

After more than 24 hours navigating a maze of public transport, one tourist arrived at the wettest place in the UK – and it can only be reached by foot. The traveller, known as ‘Planes, Trains, Everything’ on YouTube, lived up to his name by catching four trains, one bus and following a two-and-a-half-mile trek to reach the sodden lakeside location.

He claims the place in is the wettest place in the UK, according to rainfall statistics sent to him by the covering 1990 to 2022. The remote location is a rain gauge on the Miners Track around the Pen-y-Pass mountain in Wales, which he says has an annual rainfall four times greater than . To get there from Glasgow Central, he journeys south to Warrington, then Chester, before crossing over into Wales to the LLandudno Junction, and then another bus to the town of Betws-y-Coed before reaching the final hurdle of Pen-y-Pass.

From here to experience the it’s a challenging along the Miners Track, a steep and rocky route.

The rain gauge, which the YouTuber comments is about the size of a microwave oven, is located on one of the hillsides in the region, with the exact coordinates 53’04’04.5 (N), 4’03’20.3 (W).

The Miners’ Track which goes near the gauge is one of two paths beginning at Pen-y-Pass, which takes you along the shores of Llyn Teyrn, Llyn Llydaw and Glaslyn before ascending steeply to meet the Llanberis Path to the summit.

The last half requires navigating loose rock and scree and it is classed as a hard and strenuous route by the National Park Authority, so only those with a level of good fitness are recommended to undertake it.

is one of the wettest parts of the UK – Crib Goch saw an average rainfall of 4,473 mm per year over the 30-year period prior to the mid-2000s.

Between 1991 to 2020, records show annual rainfall across the UK was 1162.70mm. In Scotland it was much higher at 1572mm, Wales was just behind with 1464mm, while England had the lowest average with 869mm.