The Slow Train along the Settle and Carlisle line over the Ribblehead Viaduct
11 May 2011
On my way home to London from a book-signing in Waterstone's at Carlisle this week, I took a diversion across the beautiful Settle and Carlisle line. As always, it was raining prolifically as the train crossed the magnificent Ribblehead Viaduct in the heart of England's loveliest moorland scenery. But we must never forget - as travellers come from across the globe to sample one of the best rail journeys in the world - that the line was condemned by Beeching and the British government spent years trying to bin it. Could it ever happen again? Read the chapter in my book On the Slow Train.
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