The line from Settle to Carlisle is one of the world's great rail
journeys. It carves its way through the magnificent landscape of
the Yorkshire Dales - where it becomes the highest main line in
England - descending to Cumbria's lush green Eden Valley with its
view of the Pennines and Lakeland fells. But the story of the line
is even more enthralling. From its earliest history the line
fostered controversy: it probably should never have been built,
arising from a political dispute between two of the largest and
most powerful railway companies in the 1860s. Its construction,
through some of the most wild and inhospitable terrain in England,
was a Herculean task. Tragic accidents affected those who built,
worked and travelled the line. After surviving the Beeching cuts of
the 1960s, the line faced almost certain closure in the 1980s, only
to be saved by an unexpected last-minute reprieve. This book
describes the history behind the inception and creation of the
line; the challenges of constructing the 72-mile railway and its
seventeen viaducts and fourteen tunnels; threat of closure in the
mid-1980s and the campaign to save it, and finally, the line today
and its future.
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