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This week I have been visiting the land of my kin.

We arrived in KWK on Monday;
On Tuesday we visited D3
(On Wednesday we had a well-earned rest)
Today we walked all the way round RB.37

So what or where are KWK, D3 and RB.37?

No, it's not an easy riddle - for me, anyway.  ::)

KNK is, I think, Cornish language for Cornwall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernewek_Kemmyn), but after that I'm struggling.  :-\

KWK has a station, but no trains. But it has recently (I think) got itself a CRS code!

Darn!

It's Keswick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keswick_railway_station), isn't it?

But I'm still struggling.  ::)

Yes - KWK is Keswick Bus Station, and you can now get through tickets from Avanti West Coast. The bus runs every half hour from Penrith Station forecourt, and worked very well for us.

Now as it happens, we walked past the old railway station on our way to D3…

RB.37 is a cryptic reference to Derwent Water.

"The Rolls-Royce RB.37 Derwent is a 1940s British centrifugal compressor turbojet engine, the second Rolls-Royce jet engine to enter production."

D3 refers to Skiddaw.

D3 'Skiddaw' was the first Class 44 Peak that I copped many moons ago on a trip to Nottingham.

Correct on both counts, PhilWakely. Both walks were roughly the same length, but Skiddaw, at somewhere over 900m, was an interesting challenge for someone not as young as he once was!

And there was me looking at a remote Alaskan airfield IATA code KWK, Rb (Rubidium being the 37th element in the periodic table) and with memories of the D3 bus that ran from outside our home into Bath operated by First in the pre-covid era.  Lake District makes is much more logical.

It goes without saying, I hope, that the Lake District is a good place for a red squirrel to commune with their fellow ruddy rodents. Hence my comments about the land of my kin.