Does this line pay it's way ? My understanding is is loss making but it has to stay open because the roads are so bad in the area and a bus takes longer than the train !

What a fantastic video. I watch a lot of Heritage Rail videos but have never heard of this one. What a wonderful set up they have there and wouldn't mind spending a week there myself right next to a running line as well so convenient. The accommodation coaches look splendid and so well preserved. Will be looking out for more of your videos as this one is so well presented and a musical ending to boot. First Class. Thank you. Ray from Isle of Lewis Scotland.

Great video, nice old trains! Good work Stephen! Thumbs Up Greetings from Dublin Andrew

Наши звучат как свистки и громко!

Thank you for interesting video! It is always nice to visit the childhood's places..

I visited in July, it was great 👍

Do people tend to pay their fares on the Settle up line and do they tend to relax on the Settle down line?

Great video, really enjoyed it. Where did you source the photos of navvies and building the viaduct?

That has got one heck of a flat.

I remember when Whitehaven had a proper railway station until the idiots knocked it down in the 1980s & built a toilet block instead 😠

Hi Steven I have just returned from a visit to Carnforth station as love Brief Encounter. Your film does it more justice than my photos. Could you let me know the piece of music played at the start of your film as found it very moving. Rgds Don

Absolutely EPIC

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My home town and station. Great video!

Very enjoyable documentary! This railway line is a masterpiece. I am very grateful to the many workers who built it in the first instance and to the campaign group who saved it when threatened with closure. However I do feel very concerned nowadays about the future of this line. I started commuting on this late about 15 years, when living in Settle and working in West Yorkshire but since 2022 many commuters have stopped using this line...and it is not just because of the effect of the lockdown and new working from home arrangements. From talking to fellow passengers and other rural residents, the changes to the T&C of the Dales railcard have discouraged many people from using it in the morning. It's a real shame. I am often the only person waiting on the platform at Kirkby Stephen and on the first coach. Northern Rail are penalising commuters and the local rail user group doesn't seem to be as effective as it was? First train from Carlisle to Leeds should be full of people going to work, to college, going to hospital appointments in Bradford/Leeds but instead it's painfully empty. Well done for the documentary on Settle - beautiful place!

Settle used to have three stations - Giggleswick station was originally called Settle, then when the S-C was built it had a station at the junction - Settle Junction - and another in the town.

I love the blue pullman

There's something so un English about the Pullman.

What a scenic views! Very picturesque railway! Thank you for video!

I would love to do that trip

Cornwall UK St Erth to St Ives. One of the loveliest little train rides ever.

Thank you for very interesting video!

A great vid. Looks like a great way to spend an afternoon, not to mention the fabulous train ride there from Settle.

"Staver-ly" (Stavely) & "Burn-side" (Burneside) - Surely they're pronounced "Stave-lee"" and "Burny-side" !?

I have lived in Looe for 8 years now and not having a car, I have ridden this line hundred of times. The first time it stopped and went backwards I wondered what the heck was going on! Now I am used to it, but I can spot the passengers who have never travelled on this line before by their confused expressions! Side note, there was a station with the name Holt in Derby, where we are originally from, Rams Holt at Peartree, which was the station for the Baseball Ground, Derby County Football Club's ground. But it was closed many years ago, after Derby County moved to their new ground Pride Park Stadium.

I rode this line in 2014 - so basically a decade ago now. Gosh. You had better weather than I remember having. But your video made sense of the route that I did not understand at the time. Back then I walked from Looe all the way along the coast to Polperro - which is an amazingly scenic route. Devon and Cornwall are just chock full of amazing places like this. Such a beautiful area.

Thankyou Stephen. I found your video of the Looe Valley Line extremely interesting. When I was a small boy, my uncle was a station master with the New South Wales Railways. On school holiday periods we would visit him in many locations around that state. These were small and intimate stations, as opposed to the big city stations. Therefore, I was pleased to see the small stations along the Looe Valley Line being so very well maintained. I have subscribed and look forward to many more outings with you.

Brilliant video, I love that area.

A beautiful vid. The bleached sands at Looe are some of my fondest memories as a kid. How come Combe Junction Halt is so overgrown - surely it has the same amount of trains passing through, even if they're not stopping?

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 kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2eyp4mra9Z2pqM 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.