It's a tough job being an On-Train-Guide on the S&C but somebody's got to do it. Me and Joanna Lumley going down Mallerstang the other day.
On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week we had two steam trains on consecutive days:
The top picture shows Pen y Ghent on the eastern horizon and the viaduct over the River Ribble at Helwith Bridge with a northbound train hauled by Royal Scot.
The second is at Garsdale station and illustrates two very sad episodes in the line's history, It shows the then Hawes Junction signal box on the station platform where on Christmas Eve 1910 a dreadful oversight on the part of the signalman wretched the Scotch Express in the early hours of the morning.
The wreath on the smoke box door is in tribute to fireman Mike Middleton who had died whilst firing this engine, Scots Guardsman, near Ais Gill Summit just one week ago. The train was able to stop at Garsdale for paramedics who tried in vain to save him.
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