The
Settle to Carlisle Railway
connects the Yorkshire Dales market town of Settle in North Yorkshire with the Roman frontier town of Carlisle in Cumbria just near the Scottish border.
Passing through the spectacular upland scenery of the
Yorkshire Dales
and the
Northern Dales
the Settle to Carlisle Railway Line is justifiably well known as one of Great Britain’s (and indeed Europe’s) most famous and spectacular scenic railway lines.
Attractions taken in by the journey between Settle and Carlisle include the famous “Three Peaks” of Pen-y-ghent, Ingleborough and Whernside,
Ribblehead (where an impressive twenty four arch viaduct spans the bogs and moorland of the Batty Wife Moss),
Blea Moor, Dentdale, Garsdale, Mallerstang Common (a wide valley beneath Wild Boar Fell), and the Eden Valley
(which runs between the fells of the Cumbrian Lake District and the Northern Dales area of North Yorkshire. Cumbria and County Durham.
The Settle to Carlisle Railway has rail connections from Skipton, Leeds, the West Yorkshire conurbation, and the south, and as such provides a convenient
and scenic route of travel for visitors to the Yorkshire Dales, Carlisle and beyond. Although the route can simply be used get from A to B,
a trip on the Settle to Carlisle Railway mays a trip out in its own right !
