Wonderful as I lived there in 1978-1981. Spent many a long hour on the station including witnessing the start up of the CME and I think the Dales Rails services.

Thank you for video! What a gorgeous viaduct!

Grandad was a driver based in Workington, usually Carlisle and back. 2 toots on the whistle crossing Ha'penny Billy's Bridge meant 2 pints on the bar in the Railway Hotel.

Excellent video. In 1978 my family moved up to live in Armathwaite.My father worked as a controller at Carlisle station. I spent many days at Armathwaite station taking numbers. I saw the notice to close the station still on the door in 1978! Passenger services still operated back then. From memory, class 40/45/46/47/25 and dmu. I visited again in 2016 actually getting off the train and walking down station road into the village at Armathwaite.

The Buffet Room is not the actual Buffett Room. When the room was opened as part of the refurbishment it was completely stripped out with nothing of the original Buffet in place. So how did a Buffet Room that we see now appear? During filming it was found that the lights for filming set fire to the room's ceiling, hence the move to the sound studios in Denham. So the Carnforth Buffet was photographed and the pictures were used to build the set on the sound stage, this also was photographed. It is this second set of studio photographs that were used to reconstruct the Buffet Room that we see and used today. So when sat in the Buffet Room you are actually sitting in a reconstruction of a reconstruction.

Time for the Skipton side Bay Platform to be reopened, this would open the Ribble Valley and allow Lancashire and East Lancashire Stations to be connected to the Settle Carlisle and Skipton for Leeds

Wtf was a 397 doing on platform 3

Hi Stephen, really enjoyed the history of the Ribblehead Viaduct on this vid, have seen Tangmere Steam loco going over the Viaduct this year, thank you for sharing cheers nigel

Thanks so much for this video. I really enjoyed it. On a visit to the UK a few years ago, a friend took me there. It's hard to realize the enormity of those arches until you're standing under them. My friend took a picture of me there, and I'm just a dot until you enlarge the picture.

The English stations are all Crystal Palace style, don't you think?

The picture of the Station Staff at 1:30: Do you have a date for it? My great grandfather Charles Downham was at Hellifield until 1917, before becoming signalman at Clitheroe, Eshton Terrace till he retired in the 1940s.

Nice to see the historic footage of Snow Hill, which I used a number of times in the 1960s.

It was a good day at Carlisle. That's me with the backpack at 1.50.

I'm the annoying guy in the blue jacket at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j5x_qbmmm9enoHU.html blocking your shot !! Apologies.

Had Galatea been shown in the video instead of only in the thumbnail it wouldn't have been 2023 this was made. Galatea by 2023 had been painted into BR green years earlier.

Thank you for this great video! You really have an extraordinary skillfullness to present the trains and landscapes in a both informative and artistically / photographically appealing way! I really enjoyed watching it 😊 Btw, I remember a "call barrier" (Anrufschranke) here nearby in a forest when I was a child (I am from Germany). My father took me there on his bike and then we called the train staff who opened the barrier for us. Nostalgic memories!

So serene.

The last time I rode down this line was a few years ago on 3 carriage 195s which had recently replaced the older trains.

If possible, whenever I visit the UK, I always enjoy a ride on (pilgrimage to) the S&C and Hellifield is a favourite of mine (as is its fireman’s breakfast!). Your video was much enjoyed, bringing back memories of a station I first encountered in 1966. Thanks for posting. 👍

I enjoyed your video Stephen, thank you. At times a truly unpleasant smell exudes from the poultry factory and pervades the station. I can assure you you don't want to be waiting for a train then. I was sad to see the demise of the Brief Encounter tea room in the station building.

What a great shot at 10:53.

Thank you for interesting video!

Great video, Thanks. I was there in 2022 doing research for a book I'm publishing which includes Hellifield Station.

Great vid Stephen.👍👍

Nice video Stephen :)

Cal sleeper is not stored and serviced at Carstairs. Its is stored and serviced at Polmadie depot near Glasgow Central. The Lowlander sleeper splits and joins at Carstairs, while the Highlander sleeper bypasses the station completely using the East to South curve.

Fantastic tiny film. My Dad was from Cumberland. Brought up with coal in Wales. Steam magic !!. Thanks playmates. Dave

Excellent video. Thank you.

Complex track! 🙈

The fact this city is dying out due to low fertility and aging popularion is sad, this station could be a very big Touristic site for Thomas fans, like Talyllyn railway is

You have a bit of a West Country accent

Worth mentioning - at 7:41 you show a picture of the transporter in operation. This rarity allowed the incoming loco to be detached from its train and released by being moved across. It rallowed this operation where there was no space for a turntable. This example could handle locos up to the size of a GWR Hall Class and tender. These used to be occasional visitors on Summer Saturdays from the West Country, relieving the pressure on Snow Hill.

What a beautiful and informative video, thank you. You didn’t mention that the station buildings at Plockton are now available as a holiday let, “Off the Rails”, you can see the name board on the gable end. It’s a lovely place in a very beautiful location, My wife and I stayed there on holiday several times before her death not long after this video was made in December 2022. It’s quite novel eating your breakfast and watching the commuters waiting for the first train to Inverness. This video brings bittersweet memories. TonyS Yate, Bristol.

What a nice station and great viaduct! Thank you for video!

Thank you for a wonderful informative video.

My childhood was spent playing on the sidings, in the sheds etc in the 50s / 60s. Lived on midland terrace, My father was a train driver. I even climbed up in to the cab with him and the fireman. Oh! Happy days 😊

Thank you for very interesting video!

Superbe video et bien expliqué

Yet again another good video.garsdale is my local railway station.me and my wife often go to Leeds.

Just watched your video and it was very good.me and my dad and his work mate did work on Ribblehead viaduct back in 1988..thanks Wally.

Brilliant video I'd use the sheds into a steam and diesel heretage centre giving short rides Lay areas picnic area etc so mu potential unbelievable

I appreciate how informative this is! Due to my life time interest in Thomas & Friends and The Railway Series, Barrow in-Furness stands out to me, and I have been looking at videos of the station to gain more information. (If I'm being honest, I have put together a train simulator route of the location, and have attached a version of it to a route I've made of The Island of Sodor, and am putting together timetables for services between Sodor and the UK.) Your description of the trains is very helpful! 🙂

I liked the old photos/history of station buildings that have since been removed. Usually these buildings were much better than the modern day mettle bus shelters.

Whoever designed the West Midlands livery deserves a medal. Its beautiful and is my favourite.

hi there, i see the water tower has gone which was in the film, the cafe doesn't look like the one Celia Johnson was in,they could have rebuilt it as per the film and offering tea and pastries or buns and same style cups etc.Jocye Carey would be horrified now, Trevor Howard would probably sail away in the Bounty.

0:15 The last time I used Settle station (about 1978) there was no footbridge, and crossing the line was via sleepers between the tracks. It's a grand bridge. It was a wonderful starting point for walks. Pals and I would aim for a 25 miler on a Saturday, with at least two pubs on the way. We had become so adept at planning that we could spend 5 minutes looking at a map, checking for pub symbols, and we were off. Until the fateful day that we planned a route that spanned two maps. We planned for three pubs (Malham, Grassington and Ilkley) and got walking. When enjoying a pint in Grassington we pulled out the map to detail the stage to the pub in Ilkley, and realised it was a different scale! After downing our drinks we trotted along the Wharfe and got to Ilkley for _last orders_ (in those days 22:30) and the last train to Leeds. It turned out to be about 35 miles.

Very interesting! Thank you for video!

Holidaying here next year and this line Askam to Ravenglass is on our list - thank you

A beautiful video, thank you.

Not only fascinating video, but also an ASMR -like quality to them. I had to subscribe. Great work.