Ups and Downs at Settle Station

When a place has a name like Settle it really is a bit of an opportunity for a bit of fun at its railway station.   For anybody not in the know, the UP line goes to London

and the DOWN line heads away from London.

People sometimes ask, and very probably a lot more wonder, what we do with the money we collect in our donations receptacle from those visitors who care to use it.  

Some of it is spent on relevant things around the tower - visitor signage, gardening and so on.

Some of it is spent on things directly to do with the Settle-Carlisle railway.   What's left is paid in to the Friends of the S&C.

These are a couple of examples of our latest spending on the line - in this case something that the authorities would never dream of doing in a month of Sundays.   A little bit of fun on the backs of platform benches at Settle station.

We commissioned ten of these signs - five for each platform.   They were designed by Richard Johnson, MD of DCC Pty, the railway modelling suppliers next door to us.

Former colleagues who may raise their eyebrows about the easily removable screws may be reassured to know that they have been replaced by those clever one-way thingies.   You can screw them in but you cannot screw them out.