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Dr Neil Hudson MP has called for action on reopening the Penrith to Keswick line, extending the Borders Railway through Longtown to Carlisle, and reopening Gilsland Station.
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Keswick: The Games Room of the Keswick Hotel, under the canopies of the old station, looked inviting on a cold wet November evening. There was a second similar canopied platform here (See image [[34066]]) but ...
Mark Bartlett 30/11/2021


Gilsland: Known in the past for its sulphurous spa waters, the village of Gilsland stands alongside Hadrians Wall, straddling the border between Northumberland and Cumbria. The station was first opened in 1836 ...
John Furnevel 06/05/2006


Longtown: View from the southbound Scottish Grand Tour about to pass through Longtown station on 4 January 1969. [Ref query 6622]
D Walker Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] 04/01/1969

Positive change has been made benefitting Cumbrians travelling to Newcastle for hospital treatment, in memory of a well liked councillor.
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Plans for a Cumbrian engineering firm's new Penrith headquarters have been met with public opposition.
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The structures are part of the Historical Railways Estate managed by Highways England on behalf of the DfT and comprises 3,800 bridges, tunnels and
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The recent opening of the much-loved Keswick to Threlkeld Railway Trail has been hailed a success.

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Exactly five years after Storm Desmond hit Cumbria and destroyed the Keswick to Threlkeld Railway trail, the new and improved route was opened for the local community and visitors to enjoy.
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