Advantages: Nostalgia, scenery, natural beauty Disadvantages: It has to end!!
...is the terminus for the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway; it is off the A590 south of Newby Bridge. It can be reached by leaving the M6 at either junction 35 or 36, the A590 is a good double carriageway road and the journey to the railway is quick and easy taking about 30 minutes from the motorway, there are brown leisure signposts to help. For anyone with a sat nav the post code for the railway is LA12 8AL. Originally this railway was a branch ... ...from Lakeside to Ulverston and Barrow, then south to Lancashire. British Rail closed the line in the 1960's, and now the only part remaining is the stretch from Haverthwaite, through Newby Bridge to the terminus at Lakeside, run as a tourist attraction. On this track steam and diesel locomotives make the 3½-mile run to Lakeside from Haverthwaite during tourist season and the steam locomotives have been beautifully restored to take the coaches of ...
oldchem 09.06.2009 (04.07.2009)
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