Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway, Cumbria.
Each of the locos travel’s some 6,000 miles per year on average, hauling trains consisting of ‘breath of fresh air’ open carriages, practical open-sided ones and cosy covered saloons. That’s more trains, on a longer line, than any other heritage railway in the Lake District. As you might expect with Britain’s Favourite View and deepest lake in the next valley, England’s highest mountain at its head, Eskdale and indeed all the railway, is in the Lake District National Park – beyond the commercialism and hustle-bustle – simply surrounded by spectacular beauty. River Irt (0-8-2) Built in 1894 as 'Muriel' by Sir Arthur Heywood, the locomotive worked at the Eaton Hall Railway at the turn of the 19th Century. From there it is believed it saw service at the munitions factory in Gretna, before arriving at Ravenglass in 1917. It was rebuilt in 1927 and renamed River Irt, becoming the mainstay of passenger operations. Its appearance was improved in the 1970s with the addition of a taller chimney and its performance enhanced with a new, larger boiler. The tender was rebuilt in 2006.
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Location: Dalegarth Station, Eskdale, Lake District, Cumbria.
Photo credit: © NDP / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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