Red Squirrel on and off the rails

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PhilWakely

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Re: Red Squirrel on and off the rails

« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2019, 18:06:01 »

Keswick station?


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Re: Red Squirrel on and off the rails

« Reply #16 on: July 21, 2019, 18:49:40 »

Indeed it is! I had to blur out the sign, which (perhaps remarkably) survives the station's 1972 closure:

The railway hotel is next door, and is a rather more impressive structure:

The station building, once HQ^▸ of the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith railway, is now part of the hotel. One platform and its canopy survive; the other platform and other buildings have been demolished for car parking.


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Re: Red Squirrel on and off the rails

« Reply #17 on: July 21, 2019, 19:31:53 »

About this time of year in 1977 we stayed a couple of miles East along the line in some converted buildings between the river and the old railway track. From what I've just looked at it was Low Briery. Even then I can still remember my brother and myself exploring the old railway line.

Edit: I wondered about that lack of apparent signage on the old building in picture 2.


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