Kingmoorkid

I've appreciated all the welcomes from you Lunesters, cheers. It's been a bit inhospitable in the Pennines today, and I guess that the top of Blea Moor would be a little more testing than it was yesterday. To cheer all you Lunsters up and to remind you how well the S&C sits in the landscape I thought another couple of yesterday's photos might be in order. First is a view from above the Northern portal towards Arten Gill & Dent. Second needs no introduction from me. If anyone interested its 66145 with 6 4 wheel wagons on an engineers train. Keep plastering Jeff - looking good

Thanks Sandside - yep Cumberland on the birth certificate for me. Some great routes - haven't been round the Cumbrian Coast for a few years, I think last time I was sitting behind the driver on the front seat of a multiple unit, great view of procession of passing freights. I can also claim trips to Keswick when it was the end of the line from Penrith, and to Alston, and can remember going up the Waverley as a child. Jeff is struggling with Yorkshire Terminii. The Thames Clyde connection rules out Scarborough, Saltburn, Hull and either of the Bradford stations so I'll disclose my location as Ilkley, which was previously connected to Skipton via the Embsay - Bolton Abbey line. Seem to have 2 of your posts connected - I'm going to have to practice this posting malarky a bit more. Kingmoorkid

Jeff, there are a few terminus stations in Yorkshire but not many near the Dales - it wasn't always so and 50 years ago was on a diversionary route for the aforementioned Thames-Clyde. I expect the answer shortly. I'm not retired just 'resting between contracts'.

Jeff Ha Ha that sofa was a place of shelter..... Jan 59 for me so that terror through grainy TV strikes a chord. Your assumption on my living in the Dales is pretty good, just outside actually in a town at the end of a line (I like a brain teaser). You could deduce from the alias that I spent my youth in Carlisle, and in cycling distance from Kingmoor Yard - many happy days spent watching Peaks, Type 4s, Brush 4s, 400's, Type 2s and Birm 2s as we used to call them before computerisation and Electrification. My favourite working was always the Thames-Clyde express which headed northbound mid-afternoon, nearly always Peak hauled, just before the Royal Scot with its double headed class 50s. Not quite a lifetime ago but it seems to have gone quickly. I also respond to Simon, there are a lot of us around from the early 60's. As we like pictures on this thread here's the next Air Shaft spoilt by Solar Panels, a Wind turbine and some other paraphenalia, and another view of your tunnel mouth.

Thanks Well, if you are going to make an entrance make a it memorable one. Frankly having read 5000+ posts I'm one of those lurking Lunesters that needs to come out. I'm a bit of a S&C afficienado my first trip on the S&C was as a 14 year old in 1973 (does that make me and Jeff the same age?) and I include a trip on the Centenary special on my many trips. Fantastic day today, hadn't intended to walk to Dent but calculated that I could just about make the 13:08 if I pushed it -did Blea Moor Northern portal to Dent Station in an hour, but it was tough up that final hill (incidentally Coal Road to Garsdale closed because of snow). Got lucky when the Guard's ticket machine was out of battery power and we couldn't transact - but how can a single from Dent to Ribblehead cost £3.20? As the Air Shaft idea seems to be popular I've posted another picture with Ingleborough in the background.

I've been following the tale of Kirkby Luneside for months. I've read every post and, sadly, check progress on a daily basis although haven't felt inclined to join in the discussions. That is until today. I've just been out for a 'gentle stroll' from Ribblehead to Dent Station over Blea Moor, which takes you past the three air shafts to the tunnel below, which are magnificent bits of engineering themselves. Has any consideration been given to the placing of an air shaft on Lune Fell? It would be a fine tribute to the navvies that forged their way under Lune Fell and add a focal point to that fell side. I've attached a picture of one of the air shafts seemingly surrounded by Mod-Roc. I've also added one of the northern tunnel mouth, your rendition is a work of art - it will need a sign of course Tunnel name and yards seems de rigeur for the S&C. Regards Kingmoorkid