Snowdrift at Bleath Gill 1955 (video)

[John Ashworth]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ugIoMD495E

[John Ashworth]

The Railway Magazine, November 2016 issue, p 71, reports that the locomotive which features in this film has just been restored to "front-line service almost exactly 50 years after it was withdrawn by British Railways".

[Mike Haslam]

When I was small, my family and I would pass by, close to this place, while driving over Stainmore to visit an aunt and uncle.

It is indeed bleak place and I can vividly remember some of the snowstorms we went through in wintertime.

I never traveled the line by train, although my father, an avid lover of trains, would in the summertime, take the back roads just so we could see trains heading their way up and down.

Closed long ago, it would have made quite a scenic and exciting run, on a par with Settle-Carlisle.