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,G{IL{IUNEI|PTATE GIUEIU WITH THI$ tUUffiBEffi, _0. St, -;r" IhfuUl5TRATEn'.(: t?, 4E# CCN TEH T S lilustratedInTervnews r a N o"XXVI "-Mr. DA.VID e()UPEtt, Llensal trf,nt,:Eev. (?lcsgDi;' ili .5r-'rtf&nV*!tttt iitr#ri',r;,'. lnterceptin$ the lflaits" "flailr Tinre Tables and llunnin$. Slttnmtr of 1899. " A u'5i$unl liLtcce$s. Battles sll the {iau$cs itt th* South.West. Song of thc Driv*r. A l{ide on the Chicafo and North-Westcrn Railload's Fa.;t illail. ,.1c. {ic" T9*ICI TIMPLI CHAMBtfi$Jrr'rplr Avruur.LoNDoN E Lindal & Marton Community Website lindal-in-furness.co.uk T--* ADT/ERTISE]'[ENTS FURNESS ABBEY IIOTETJ-IN TIIE GENIIRE OF IJAI{ELAND. RE-FURNISHED. RE=DECORATED. ELECTRIC LICHT TTIROUGHOUT. F{.TRNESS RAILMTAY. 20 gOACI-t and STEAM YAcHT ,Gl { I I }OUESthroughIake,tan{ %d N b0 fi F qJ v) vI fY! fr.{ >tt] N t 't EI rtl F! ,,TenN,,-LAxB F. R. Srparr,rYecsr Srpe SratroN, WrNornvens. No.1. OUTER GIRGUIAR TgllR, embracing No. 11. ULLSWATER TOUR, via Ambleside, Windermere Lake, Furness Abbejr and Goniston". Kirkstone Pass and Brothers Water, returning No.2. INNER CIRCU_LAR TQUR, embracing via the VaIe ol Troutbeck and Lowwood. Furn€ss Abbey, Coniston Lake-(Gondola) and No. 12. DERWENTWATER lKeswick) TOUR, Grake Valley. via l,mbleside, Grasmere and Thirlmere. No.3. GRANGE C{\CU!4R TOUR, embracing No.13. IHE FIYE LAKES CIROULAR TOUR, Grange, Kendal and Windermer6 Lake. viz. : Wind_ermere, Grasmere, Rydal, Thirl: mere and Keswick. No. i[. MIDDITE GIRCULAR TOUR, embracing No. 14. WASTWATER TOUR, via Seasoaleand Windermere Lake, the Grake- Valley and Ooniston Lake. Gosforth. No. 15. THE SIX LAKES CIRCUIJAR TOUR, No.5. RED BANK and GRASMERE TOUR, via viz,: Windermere, Rydal. Grasmere. Ihirl: Ambleside, and Skelwith Force. mere, Derwentwatei and-Ullswater.' No. 6. THIRIJMERE,GRASMERE and WINDER- No.16. THE DUDDON VALLEY TOUR, via UERE TOUR, via Ambleside, Clappersgate and Broughton-in.Furness, Ulpha and Seathwaite. Red Bank. No. 17. IJEYENSand HEYERSHAM TOUR, via No.7. TIIE FOUR LAKES CIRCULAR TOUR. Grange Milnthorpe and ,l,rnsicle viz.: Coniston, Grasmere, Rydal, and Illlinclerj No. 18. ENNERDAL/E IJAKE and CALDER mere. ABBEY TOUR, via Seascale, Gosforth, and CoId Fell. No.8. GONISTONto CONISTON TOUR. via *No. Red Bank, Grasmere and Ambleside. 19. ESTHIIIAITE WATER and the WIN- DERMERE FERRY CIRCULAR TOUR. via No.9. TARN IIOWS TOUR. via Ambleside and Goniston and Haurkshead, embracing Wirider- Goniston, returning by Tilberthwaite and E,lter- mere Lake and Furness Abbey. water. No.20. GARTMET PRIORY and NEWBY M. Lindal & Marton Community Website lindal-in-furness.co.uk tl e' THE FURNE55 RAILWAY's CHARMINC o CORNER OF ENCLAND te Bv S. S. Lono qr ci w ni. at b5 VERYONE of course scenes below. Nature just now is at its m has heard of T(ent loveliest, and the hills and dales are to be being the garden seen in bright fresh garb, and while the tri of England, but I former offer grand scope for members of thr very much ques- the Alpine Club who largely frequent the for tion whether at all district, the latter give scope for rest and thr times of the year, repose in the quiet charm of country life, and particularly at seen and experienced under its best con- the present time, ditions. Nlany writers have told us of the the lake district of Cumberland, West- fine qualityof the airwe breathe in the Lake moreland, and North Lancashire, will not District, of the pleasurel and satisfaction be able to give it many points. lS From a scenery point of view, the hills and lakes of the North- West ot Etg- land have not a rival even in lre- land or Scotland, and I am sure nothing could be Lon more exquisite Con than the variety mer of charming con- Lak trasts which meet I(es the view on every fron hand in Lake- ingt, land, especially com at this time ot ,the l year. Most of Wes the hills are ern I covered with is le verdure and with Photo, Hollisl IBarrow-in-Fumess pede TNIIERIOR OF CARNFORTH JOrNT STATION (FURNESS AND LONDON AND tree lif'e right to NORTH WESTERN RAILWAYS) TT theirsummit, and syste the great mountain heights are in pootic given to the eye in the ever-varying scenes corn( and rugged contrast with the pastoral of beauty that abound on every side; of ago i' r76 Lindal & Marton Community Website lindal-in-furness.co.uk FURNESS RAILWAY,S CHARMING CORNERoF ENGLAND 177 the untold wealth of resource afforded on becausealthough there has been a coach- every hand to the antiquary and archa- ing servicealmost from time immemorial. ologist, of the wide field offered for bo- it was conducted on a comparatively ex- tanical research, and of the undisturbed pensive basis, and was indulged in only quietnesswhich pervades everywhere, be- by those with well-lined pockets who cause the civilizing agency of the rail- could afford to travel luxuriously, and lvho way has not reached and destroyed the could put up at very comfortable but cer- natural charm and beauty of a thousand. tainly expensive hotels. A change has and one places which can only be reached taken place within the last twenty years by means of coach, cycle or Shank's by means of which the Lake District has mare. becomemore popularised. It has opened But although railways have not pene- its door to a larger numtjer of visitors by trated into the heart of the Lake District, the better facilities of travel that are now they certainly are within touch of its fringe, provided, and in doing so it has in no for the Furness Railway Company reaches sense lost its charm or become common the foot of Windermere Lake, and the and rowdy. Photo, Hollisl IBarrow-in-Furness THE I.1O P.M. EXPRESS CROSSING ARNSIDE VIADUCT, FURNESS RAILWAY London and North Western Railway The railway companies communicating Company has a branch line to Winder- with the Lake District have awoke to the mere village, & mile and a half from the wisdom of taking fuller opportunitiesof Lake, and again has a bonnection with the advantages they can give, and of en- Keswick by means of the railway running couraging a larger number of passengers from Penrith to Cockermouth and Work- to travel to various interesting points at ington. But while the Furness Railway popular fares. The result has been to communicates with the extreme south of draw largely from the middle and the ,the Lake District, the London and North respectable portion of the working Western Railway skims along its north- classes,and they have been found to show ernboundary, and the intervening space as wide and as full a spirit of appreci_ is left for coaching or for individual ation of the beauties of the Lake District pedestrians. as was ever displayed by the upper circles The area left untouched by any railway of societywho at one time consideredthis systemis to my mind the most charming part of England as their own happy hunt- cornerof England, but up to a few years ing ground. The advancesmade by edu_ agoit was only open to the privileged few, cation have given the middle and the Lindal & Marton Community Website lindal-in-furness.co.uk -1 ';;::' *l sl li. ,', .' l:l'r r78 THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE direct communication from lower classes an insight into the beauti- I.IO p'm', ha: Leeds, and Brad- ful and the artistic in life, which has re- Manchester, Liverpool, the carriages are run from Dist: sulted .in a new era in refinement and ford. Through - the train being M. culture that find.s its tastes satisfied by Leeds and Manchester, o of a break and com- a sojourn, whether of brief or long mad'eup at Carnforth 9 from Manchester, a break r8 duration, in a district like this wher"e posite loach coach from Leeds, and Nature has been so lavish with her and composite 23 three Fuiness coaches-two thirds and 24 favours. z8 carriages on the My object in the present article is to one composite. Th" have been completely deal with the very splcial facilities afford- Furness Railway 34 since Aslett's advent' and 40 ed in recent years by the Furness Rail- changed lVtr' and comfort-nay, way company to those who desire to visit now, fot convenience 44 late fcrr absolute luxuriance-cannot be sur- Lakeland.. when Mr. Alfred Aslett, 52 by those-of. any other company' general manager of the Cambrian Ra-!l- passed JI They are lighted- with Stone's system of 6t ways, took over, some four years ago, the 63 as the readers ot general managership of the FurneJt nuit- eleclricity, by which' 69 way, he saw IJ the great possi- 742 bilities the Fur- lN. to pz ness RailwaY call a has of de- onIy, its pass velo,ping Millor passenger traffic at Se by opening the. Nethe Lake District in a popular woy, and the result of the working of Le the three on Past [Barrow-in-Furness Fhoto, Hollisl acror years has quite EXPRESS AT ARNSIDE AWAITTNG THE PASSING OF THE :TOURIST justified the ac- STATION, FURNESS RAILWAY tion he took as the Renw.ev Me'cezrNn already know' evidenced by the increased receipts, by every carriage creates its own currgot' ' the much larger number of passengers This train iJ drawn by one of a number carried, by ttt" growiilg popularity of bogie engines built in 1896by Sharp' the cheap circular-tours he has arranged' of having r8-inch cylinders growing spirit on- the part ot Stewa-rt & Co., and by a -to There are and cheap and 6-feet rlriving-wheels' the public use these rqady ' not any long, straight runs on the Furness -"an* of spending a happy time in lovely ' Railway, and the peculiar route which.the Lakeland line tras had to take in order to skirt A passenger or visitqr reaching Carn- and cross the m?nl j-unction with the London and Morecambe BaY - i forth .the that abound, and the Midland systems riveis and estuaries ,fa11 North'Western 'sharp burves, which -at to his hand" a very nbcedsitated many noon finds, ars to convey reduce the- speed at which trains smartly-eguinped ,train - ready :allowed ' of-.the to travel; yet this r'ro eipres him ,at "ibt"q* , spee{ t9 -any Carnfoith is ,one of rnanY o4 interesling places touched by the Fur- from 'af Railway wtrich travelS a' .,"i, RaihvaY he may care to visit' Furness rate.