On a sunny Friday morning, Judith, Brian John & I set off for our adventure on British rail.
This is a great rail journey which crosses much of the Yorkshire Dales & goes over the famous Ribble Viaduct. We don't have photos yet of the viaduct we will have to wait until we climb Penyghent to get views of this.
The train goes past the village of Dent which is the highest rail station in UK & where the film "Brief Encounter" was filmed. There is still a small museum set up for the film.
Carlisle is not the most picturesque of towns but has the distinction of being the place where Judith used to meet her boyfriend when he was studying at Lancaster & she at Durham, (this person is not now her husband so we will not speculate on what secrets Carlisle holds of those little trysts)
Carlisle is making the best of itself however with amazing flower displays all over town.
The town is on the English/Scots border & was a Roman stronghold. Hadrians wall starts here. It has a castle & I'm afraid to say a rather dismal cathedral tho' John & Brian enjoyed hearing the choir practising.
The ceiling of Carlisle Cathedral
The Cathedral is quite plain on the outside but exquisite inside.
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