steam engine train carriages at Newby Bridge station platform on the Lakeside and Haverthwaite railway
steam engine train carriages at Newby Bridge station platform on the Lakeside and Haverthwaite railway in the english lake district in Great Britain UK. Haverthwaite is a small village in the Furness region of Cumbria. It is also within the boundaries of the Lake District National Park. It is located several miles east of Ulverston and is near the southern end of Windermere. The village is the starting point of the preserved Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway. The Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway is a heritage railway in Cumbria, England. The line runs from Haverthwaite via Newby Bridge to Lakeside at the southern end of Windermere. Some services are timed to connect with sailings of the diesel excursion vessels on Windermere, sailing up to Bowness and Ambleside. The railway is a former branch line of the Furness Railway (FR), and there is a train-boat connection that was established in 1868. The railway's locomotive fleet includes FR no. 20, Britain's oldest working standard gauge steam locomotive, which was built in 1863.
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