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1/3 Reading a book called The Stainmore & Eden Valley Railways by Peter Walton (Oxford Publishing Company)
This #railway line linked #BarnardCastle with #Tebay plus branch lines. The last passenger train ran in Jan 1962. I love this quote from a former signalman at Stainmore, Mr N. Pearson, who described his years in the box as follows: continues….
2/3 "I spent the happiest days of my life in this isolated cabin; as an aspiring young signalman I became acquainted with the beauty of a sunrise on a summer morning, the call of the grouse in the heather, the far-off sounds of the shooting parties on the Glorious Twelfth, or the simple breathtaking majesty of a sunset over the valley. I treasure most of all the memory of continues…..
3/3 the brilliance of the Northern lights seen during the night shift when it did seem as if the stars could be picked out of their velvet background, so near did they appear. When one of the coloured searchlights of the aurora shot across the sky, things began to happen in the cabin. Bells used to jingle, block indicators danced and the phonophone telephone circuit would crackle like a demented Geiger counter".