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Escape with us on a journey back
in time through the Lake District
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and Yorkshire Dales...
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...aboard a luxury
Heritage train, the Northern Belle.
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It's designed to give people
a taste of how it used to be.
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It's a romantic voyage pulled
by the original 19305 steam train
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the Princess Elizabeth where
passengers get to enjoy a
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grand tour of rural north-west
England,
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passing the timeless ancient
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landscapes of Cumbria and
Yorkshire...
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What I'm doing when I move my sheep
is the same work that somebody
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was doing three, four, 5,000
years ago.
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That's pretty amazing.
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...secret living forests...
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If I jump, it's going to run up my
leg!
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...to witness the true glory of
history.
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We'll meet the people who live
and work along this special railway.
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Who strive to keep the great
romantic era of rail travel alive.
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Well, when you're going through the
Yorkshire Dales,
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you're going through God's own
country. And it's wonderful.
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This is no ordinary railway journey.
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This is one of the most scenic
railway journeys in the world,
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the Lakes and Dales.
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England's rural north-west,
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spanning Lancashire...
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...Cumbria and Yorkshire.
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This spectacular region
of the country
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is famed for its patchwork of fields
and green pastures,
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it's hillwalking and it's
ever-changing weather.
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Sometimes with all four seasons
in one day.
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To carry us through it,
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a very special train...
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...now backing into a rain-soaked
Preston Station.
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...to collect passengers for
a grand tour of rural England.
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This magnificent locomotive
is the Princess Elizabeth...
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...one of the finest
steam engines in the world.
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Coupled up with the Northern Belle
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and its 13 stylish
Pullman carriages.
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No-one is more proud of her than
train manager Thomas.
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Any time we can take a steam engine
out, it's a fantastic day for us.
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It's absolutely wonderful to use,
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especially the Princess Elizabeth
engine.
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It really brings out
the opulence of what rail travel
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used to be like.
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At the dirty end of the train,
old-timer Chris
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is getting Lizzie ready.
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The driver's job is to get
the train to its destination
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safely and on time.
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A 10:13 am, our, luxurious
day out begins.
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A train ride voted one of
the world's ten greatest journeys
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of all time.
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The first leg of our ZOO-mile eight
hour grand tour takes us north
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into Cumbria and the Lake District
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to stop at the historic city
of Carlisle. Our train then swings
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south onto the historic
Settle and Carlisle line,
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through the
Yorkshire Dales National Park,
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passing Dent, England's highest
station, before finally crossing
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the famous Ribblehead Viaduct
towards Settle
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and back to where our tour started,
at Preston.
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As our train shoots majestically
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north along
the West Coast Main Line...
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WHISTLE BLOWS
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...passengers indulge in the first
silver service offering of the day.
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We've gone for a special breakfast
today, which is a full English
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breakfast, and we've also
got a smoked salmon option.
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After that, we're going to
have our sweets, our pastries,
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our cakes, our loaves.
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And then, after that,
another glass of champagne.
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Luxury is what the Northern Belle
is all about.
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Each of the redesigned Pullman
carriages has been named
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and decorated in honour of
famous stately homes,
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including Chatsworth,
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Harlech
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and the Duart.
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It was actually the Queen Mother's
favourite carriage.
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Legend has it that the Queen Mother
sat just here
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and that was her favourite
spot in the car.
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And it's affectionately
named after Duart Castle.
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And the Queen Mother was fond
of wildlife of Scotland, England
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and Wales, and they're portrayed
on the ceiling above us.
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According to Heritage Railway
manager James, the Belle not only
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captures the romance of royalty, but
also the glamour of 19305 travel.
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The style was of opulence.
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It was the golden era of travel.
And that's not just rail travel,
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that's the early era of air travel
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and certainly the great liners...
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...the Queens and what have you.
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And I think this sort of travel
was a more cultured and much
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more comfortable way of travel.
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This is certainly a luxury train
and it's designed to give people
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a taste of how it used to be
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and reflect the style of the era.
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After travelling through windswept
Lancashire, the clouds momentarily
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part and the Northern Belle
glides past the famous
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Lake District National Park.
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Less than five miles from
the tracks, an ancient landscape
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where old-fashioned farming
traditions still linger.
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Here!
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Good dogs. That's it,
you've got them.
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Bunch up.
HE WHISTLES
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Bunch up.
HE WHISTLES
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Bunch up.
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On a quest to maintain that link
with the past is Lakes farmer James.
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My family have been here
for GOO-plus years.
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When I look at this landscape,
I know it.
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We're written all over it
and it's written right through us
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like a stick of Blackpool rock
when you crack it.
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One, two, three, four, five...
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The values of the people here
reflect this landscape.
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Good lassies.
HE WHISTLES
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I mean, Wordsworth said this
250-odd years ago - there's things
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about this landscape that shapes
a particular kind of people.
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Decades earlier, James inherited
a small family farmstead
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that his grandfather had once kept
in its time-honoured way, much
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like the generations before him.
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My earliest memories of like
following my grandfather round,
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he had a sheepdog called Ben.
He did everything on foot,
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and he spent a lot of time
walking on his land.
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And, although it was technically
working,
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and he would spend his time
watching the barn owls
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in the barn beneath us.
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And he would look under the fences
like the one we're standing next to
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and he would see like
three red hairs on the bottom
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and he'd say, "That's where the fox
comes through every morning."
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Come.
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Years later, the farm modernised,
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losing many of its traditional
features.
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But then James realised
his grandfather
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might have been onto something
and set about returning
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it to its original state.
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He restored woodlands...
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...and peat bogs.
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Opened up an ancient river...
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...and introduced traditional
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Herdwick sheep.
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The genetics go back to the
Viking period.
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HE SHOUTS COMMANDS
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And we think that some of their
genetics go back way further to
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ancient British sheep,
so it's a distinct possibility that
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the work I'm doing
when I move my sheep
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is the same look that somebody was
doing
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three, four, 5,000 years ago,
which is a remarkable thing.
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The rewilding of the land
had an extraordinary effect
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on the natural biodiversity,
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but it also improved the farmland,
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allowing his livestock to thrive.
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Now, when you walk through our
fields, there are masses of insects
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and butterflies and moths.
We're seeing voles and frogs
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and toads everywhere.
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And then we're seeing the next
layer up in the food system,
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which is the barn owls, the herons,
the kestrels. And there's clovers
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and other beautiful flowers, sort
of rarer flowers. Round about 100
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different species, stuff that was
there in the past that's vanished.
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James believes the explosion
of biodiversity on his farm
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stems from these ancient farming
practises that work in tune
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with nature itself.
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Local knowledge passed down here
in the Lakes for generations.
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This is my home.
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If I spend every single day
for the rest of my life
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in this place, I would die
with no regrets.
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What more does a person need?
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Next, our train continues
on through the beautiful
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Lake District and then crosses
over into Yorkshire
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ancl England's historic heartland.
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Well, when you're going through
the Yorkshire Dales, you're going
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through God's own country.
And it's wonderful.
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We're two hours into one
of the world's most scenic
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railway journeys, a grand tour of
rural north-west England
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aboard the Northern Belle.
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Obviously, the landscapes are
beautiful and it's not like
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something that you see from a car
because you keep getting whiffs
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of the steam going past
and it's just beautiful.
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One minute, you're looking
through the window and you just
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realise that, you think,
"Why has the view disappeared?"
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And then you realise
that it's the steam from the train.
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The next leg of our journey takes us
north for another 80 miles
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through the Lake District...
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...to then stop at the historic
city of Carlisle.
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Steam locomotive 6201,
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the Princess Elizabeth,
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is the undoubted star of the trip.
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It's almost the nearest
you have a machine to being alive.
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There's a lot of affection
for this locomotive.
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People like the noise, the sound.
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We still refer to trains as
chuff-chuffs.
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Built in 1934 to carry
passengers from London to Glasgow...
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HORN TOOTS
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...by 1936, Lizzie had set the world
record for the longest and fastest
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nonstop run to Scotland.
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Making the 411-mile journey
in just under six hours.
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Today, we're going at a slightly
more luxurious pace...
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...as we pull into Carlisle station.
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As passengers alight to explore
Cumbria's provincial capital,
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some head to the city's most famous
historic landmark, just a short walk
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from the station...
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BELL TOLLS
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...Carlisle's Gothic Cathedral.
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Built in 1122, it's a masterpiece
of medieval architecture
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that predates
the railway by almost 1,000 years.
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SINGING WITH ORGAN
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Though as Canon Michael knows,
God and trains don't always
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go hand-in-hand.
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Our relationship with the railway
and the station
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is quite chequered, really.
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It's only about eight minutes' walk
away.
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And when it was all being developed,
the dean at the time,
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Dean Francis Close, didn't like
trains on Sundays and he didn't
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like the noise of the trains
passing either.
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He used to get very annoyed,
so he complained.
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And one of the funny stories
is, the train drivers learnt
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of this and actually blew
their whistle every time
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they passed his house, the deanery.
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WHISTLE BLOWS
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But the Cathedral's turbulent
history began 500 years earlier
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when King Henry VIII broke
away from the Catholic papacy
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in Rome and looted the
monastic community based here.
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All that remains of it today
is the dining hall.
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While they were eating,
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this is where they would read
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to the monks, various either
the Bible
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or various religious works.
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BELL TOLLS
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With no money, the
Cathedral fell into disrepair
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and the west wing collapsed.
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Then it suffered more damage
when stonework was stolen
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from the nave during the
English Civil War.
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But even after all this destruction,
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you can see glimpses of how it used
to be
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in the magnificent 51-foot-high
east wing stained glass window.
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SOLEMN SINGING
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It's one of the finest examples
of what we call
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the flowing Gothic style.
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This is one of the largest
in England.
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There's also an incredible ceiling.
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One of the themes of the cathedral
is that everybody's special,
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everybody's unique.
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And here we have stars.
Even though there's thousands,
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there's one panel which has a star
missing to make it different,
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to say how special people are.
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So to actually work here,
it's like living history,
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because the history is continued.
And there's so many untold stories
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of what happened here that I'm
still discovering after 12 years.
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While we've been
visiting the cathedral...
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...Lizzie is being repositioned
for our return...
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...ready for the next
leg of the journey south,
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through the Yorkshire Dales.
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It's a demanding task.
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All steam locomotives
are temperamental.
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They're like women -
you've got to treat them right.
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Because if you don't treat them
right, they'll soon let you down.
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STEAM HISSES
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She's making a noise now.
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Meanwhile, stranger
happenings are afoot.
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In a hidden underworld that lies
40ft beneath the station known only
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to a few, like local tour guide
John.
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This isn't some fantasy scene
from a Jack the Ripper movie set.
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It's the Undercroft - an abandoned
Victorian arcade that once
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was teeming with noisy coal and
mail carts,
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and even elephants when a visiting
circus was based there.
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These were dark times,
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and some say the sounds still
Hngen
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This place has long been known
as being haunted.
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Several ghosts roam the station.
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On occasions, you can hear the sound
of breaking glass.
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Within the dark labyrinth...
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...lies an abandoned canteen
once used by train staff.
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But it's in the old Victorian
butcher's cold store
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where the grisliest stories look.
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In May 1915, bodies from a horrific
train crash that took place
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at Quintinshill during the First
World War were stored here.
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Possibly some of the stories
of ghosts emanate from these walls.
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You do feel that this place is a bit
creepy
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and it sends shivers down your back.
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High above this chamber of
horrors...
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...our train is finally ready
for the next leg.
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Well, when you're going through
the Yorkshire Dales,
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you're going through
God's own country.
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And it's wonderful to see
all seasons and all aspects
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of life. You see the change
in the landscape. One week
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it could be snow, in the summer
it's nice and warm.
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You see the farmers doing
all theirjob on the land.
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You're in Yorkshire, and I'm a
Yorkshireman.
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The Northern Belle now travels south
along the Settle and Carlisle line,
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passing through Kirkby Stephen
and the sweeping Yorkshire Dales.
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The line doesn't so much
go through the heart
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as go over the roof of England,
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and it was an extremely difficult
line to build.
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It took seven and a half years
of manual labour, which resulted
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in a fairly stunning line
which is usually the highlight
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of the journey.
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Fortunately for those on board,
lunch is accompanied
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with stunning views.
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On the menu today, a trio of salmon,
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for starters, followed by
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beef Wellington
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and that old English
favourite, spiced apple crumble.
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It can be difficult to serve on a
moving train at times, especially
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when you're going 90mph
on the Main Line. As staff members,
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we do get a bit of an internal
gyroscope and you do get used
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to sort of walking with a bit
of a wider gait.
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People come dressed beautifully
for the day and the nightmare
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would be spilling tea or coffee
on them straight away -
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that would be the hardest
part of our job.
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Thank you.
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With table views to die for,
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glorious England unfolds.
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50 miles ahead, Kirkby Stephen
station,
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where time seems
to have stood still.
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Since Victorian times, some
things have never changed.
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Like late trains.
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But as clock historian
Michael knows,
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at least the Victorians had a good
excuse.
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They had the problem of local time
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and railway time.
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Stations used to
put notices up -
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"Do arrive ten minutes early
because you may miss the train."
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The time of clay
varied across the country.
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It was out by an additional
four minutes for every degree
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of longitude east or west
from London.
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Here in Kirkby Stephen, midday would
have come around ten minutes later.
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Time became important.
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So they developed railway time.
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With the use of telegraph signals,
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their stations and railways
all had the same time,
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and this was adopted in the 18405
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and it took another 20-odd years
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before the whole country
came into line
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and railway time was then
Greenwich Mean Time.
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Michael's great-great-grandfather,
William Potts, got the job of making
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over 1,600 public clocks
up and down the country...
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...with 15 on the Settle and Carlisle
line alone, just like this one here.
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They're everywhere,
and isn't that wonderful?
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Finally, in that great tradition
of railway time, our train passes
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through Kirkby Stephen
a little late.
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Ladies and gentlemen...
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...unfortunately, we're running
approximately 20 minutes late.
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I do apologise for any inconvenience
this may cause. Thank you.
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WHISTLE BLOWS
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Without so much as the wrong kind of
autumn leaf on the line,
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The Northern Belle continues
its journey south...
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...to enter the Yorkshire Dales
National Park
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and some of the most breathtaking
scenery found anywhere in the world.
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We're halfway through one
of the most scenic railway journeys
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in the world...
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...aboard the Northern Belle.
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...as it makes its grand tour
of north-western England.
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It's very attractive scenery.
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It's generally unspoilt.
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You see lots of small farms, sheep.
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And you've got some high summits.
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Our train continues on through
the Yorkshire Dales, passing
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Dent, England's highest station,
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before crossing Blea Moor
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and the famous Ribblehead Viaduct.
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I think one of the most
special things about the Belle
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is where we go and what we see.
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We get access to areas of
the country that aren't
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seen by everybody.
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Mile after mile of
rural pastures roll by.
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Some of which include ancient
woodland,
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the ideal habitat for native
species.
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Within these secret forest
sanctuaries...
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...live some of Britain's rarest
animals.
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The most elusive is so tiny
and quick it's almost invisible.
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Come on.
SHE CLICKS HER TONGUE
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Come on, little 'uns.
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Come on.
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Unless you are Julie,
the squirrel whisperer.
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00:27:58,772 --> 00:28:00,267
There you are.
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Come on over, then.
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Come on.
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They are really, really flighty.
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Little gymnasts in the trees.
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It's like a flash of red lightning
between the branches,
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so it's difficult sometimes
to see them.
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00:28:20,542 --> 00:28:22,682
Hello again. Hello again.
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Don't you stand on my feet.
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Here's some more nice feed for you.
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Try that one. Going to bury it?
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They've got beautiful coats. They go
from red to brown to grey to rust
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to orange - they basically follow
the colours of the rainbow.
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There's one at my feet at the
moment,
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and if I jump it's going to run
up my leg!
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Always hungry, always busy.
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Red squirrels are native
to the British Isles, having lived
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here since the last Ice Age
over 10,000 years ago.
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But in recent decades, the arrival
of the grey squirrel and habitat
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loss have threatened their survival.
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Conservationists like Julie are
helping the population to recover.
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A lot of the natural food
isn't there for the squirrels.
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So we supplementary feed them
basically to try and do some
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squirrel counts, to record
the behaviour, to record the range
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and to just ensure that
they are healthy.
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After 30 years' work, Julie
and her fellow conservationists
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have stabilised the population.
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There are now estimated
to be around 300,000 red squirrels
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in the country, and they're making
a comeback.
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We've helped those squirrels to
survive and thrive
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and now increase the range.
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My all-time dream is for everybody
to experience red squirrels
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in their natural habitat,
which is where we want them to be.
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Five hours into ourjourney, our
train ascends towards the highest
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point on England's Main Line.
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At 1,150ft, Dent station.
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It marks the starting point
of a dramatic new landscape carved
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00:31:03,919 --> 00:31:06,734
out by glaciers and erosion...
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00:31:08,148 --> 00:31:09,974
...which the railway builders
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00:31:09,999 --> 00:31:12,014
tunnelled through at Blea Moor,
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00:31:12,039 --> 00:31:15,053
where the line runs SOOft
underground.
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After travelling for a mile
and a half along the line's longest
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tunnel, the route emerges
onto the famous Ribblehead Viaduct.
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1,300ft long, 100ft high
and 24 arches wide, it's considered
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to be one of the great Victorian
landmarks of Northern England.
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But behind its glory hides
a forgotten chapter of history.
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Of the migrant labourers who worked
on the railway known as the navvies.
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Local historian Sarah
has been uncovering their story.
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Nowadays, in the 21st century,
we have these romantic notions
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00:32:21,359 --> 00:32:25,534
of these navvies who built this
fantastic viaduct up at Ribblehead,
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00:32:25,559 --> 00:32:27,654
but the reality was far worse.
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00:32:32,919 --> 00:32:37,173
Navvies did have a tough life beyond
what we could possibly imagine
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in this day and age.
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They had to dig ten tonnes a day and
the average age
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of death of the navvies
was about 30.
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A surprising number of the navvies
died from being crushed
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between wagons.
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Some of the deaths were linked
just to absolute exhaustion.
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If you weren't hardy, you would not
survive, and many didn't.
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00:33:05,659 --> 00:33:08,834
215 navvies and their families are
buried here
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at Chapel-le-Dale church
that lies near the Viaduct.
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Some would have lived with
their families
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in temporary construction camps
close to the Viaduct.
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00:33:21,009 --> 00:33:23,784
But what surprised Sarah
when she began researching
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about their lives in 19th century
journals and local newspapers
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is the bad press they received.
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They would read these reports
in the paper
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and then that would be the basis
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00:33:38,939 --> 00:33:41,344
of, "Oh, well, we don't want the
navvies living round here.
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00:33:41,369 --> 00:33:43,143
"You know what they say about
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00:33:43,168 --> 00:33:45,754
"the navvies - they're always in
trouble."
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00:33:45,779 --> 00:33:50,523
But obviously, newspapers then,
as now, wanted to sell papers
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00:33:50,548 --> 00:33:52,984
and may well have embellished
a couple of stories just to make
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it particularly interesting.
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In fact, one of the navvies that
died
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actually was singing at a concert to
raise money for the lifeboat fund
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just a couple of months
before he was killed by a crane.
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00:34:06,369 --> 00:34:09,193
So he was obviously making
a good contribution to life
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00:34:09,218 --> 00:34:10,193
in the town.
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00:34:13,809 --> 00:34:17,674
It's such a shame that, at the time,
so few people acknowledged
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00:34:17,699 --> 00:34:20,513
and understood the significance
and importance
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00:34:20,538 --> 00:34:23,834
of what they were doing
and made sacrifices themselves
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just so that we can enjoy
this fantastic scenery today
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00:34:27,338 --> 00:34:28,513
from the railway.
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00:34:36,338 --> 00:34:41,393
150 years on, Ribblehead
still has its admirers.
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00:34:45,369 --> 00:34:47,034
Careful - it looks a bit slippy
here.
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00:34:50,859 --> 00:34:54,513
A mere deluge won't stop
passionate train enthusiasts
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00:34:54,538 --> 00:34:57,624
Steve and Daniel heading out today.
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00:34:57,649 --> 00:34:59,594
I think this is as good a spot as
any.
457
00:35:01,979 --> 00:35:03,513
Yeah, that'll do.
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00:35:03,538 --> 00:35:05,114
They'll be nice.
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00:35:06,369 --> 00:35:10,594
Finding the best - or should we say
driest - seat in the house
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00:35:10,619 --> 00:35:12,234
requires some optimism.
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00:35:13,619 --> 00:35:16,874
Not the ideal weather for cameras,
but hey-oh.
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00:35:16,899 --> 00:35:19,114
Why do I do this?
THEY LAUGH
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00:35:20,259 --> 00:35:23,984
That's what my missus says.
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00:35:24,009 --> 00:35:27,154
While Daniel opts to
photograph the train,
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00:35:27,179 --> 00:35:28,624
Steve prefers to video it.
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00:35:31,259 --> 00:35:32,794
Yeah, that'll do.
467
00:35:32,819 --> 00:35:37,154
Having as a boy fallen in love with
the sound of steam
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00:35:37,179 --> 00:35:41,594
when his father worked
as a Signalman.
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00:35:41,619 --> 00:35:44,794
Nothing more fantastic than seeing
a steam engine going over
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00:35:44,819 --> 00:35:46,754
this viaduct, working hard, you
know?
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00:35:46,779 --> 00:35:48,954
The sound is incredible.
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00:35:48,979 --> 00:35:51,874
You can't beat it, even in
weather like this.
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00:35:53,859 --> 00:35:55,034
We get a bad rep.
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00:35:55,059 --> 00:35:58,433
People call us train spotters,
but we're not train spotters,
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00:35:58,458 --> 00:36:00,984
we're enthusiasts.
My wife thinks I'm a bit mad, yeah.
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00:36:01,009 --> 00:36:03,754
Especially when she knows I'm out in
this weather,
477
00:36:03,779 --> 00:36:05,724
but you can't beat it.
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00:36:05,749 --> 00:36:07,904
I mean, you'll always have a
good chat
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00:36:07,929 --> 00:36:09,874
with somebody who's next to you
on the line.
480
00:36:09,899 --> 00:36:13,263
It's just a bit of
a band of brothers, really.
481
00:36:13,288 --> 00:36:16,313
Yeah, you'll be lucky.
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F
483
00:36:20,009 --> 00:36:23,183
é
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00:36:24,929 --> 00:36:27,794
F
485
00:36:27,819 --> 00:36:30,624
F
486
00:36:30,649 --> 00:36:31,824
é
487
00:36:34,179 --> 00:36:37,794
And for our intrepid band
of brothers, braving out even
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the harshest rain is worth it
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00:36:40,009 --> 00:36:43,263
just for a glimpse of Lizzie.
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00:36:43,288 --> 00:36:48,234
Meanwhile, lounging in comfort
on the Belle's plush
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00:36:48,259 --> 00:36:51,984
upholstered seats, rain is the
perfect
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00:36:52,009 --> 00:36:54,674
accompaniment to a glass
of champagne.
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00:36:58,489 --> 00:37:01,714
If it's raining outside,
it doesn't really matter
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and you can still see the scenery.
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00:37:03,458 --> 00:37:06,393
There's a certain amount
of satisfaction, I think,
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00:37:06,418 --> 00:37:10,794
being inside a nice, comfy,
warm carriage when it's
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00:37:10,819 --> 00:37:12,354
chucking it down outside.
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WHISTLE BLOWS
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Ahead, at the Viaduct,
no bog is too deep
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for a train enthusiast pro.
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00:37:25,259 --> 00:37:28,183
People call it atmospheric,
but I just call it wet!
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00:37:28,208 --> 00:37:29,954
%
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00:37:29,979 --> 00:37:32,263
Yeah, definitely, yeah.
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00:37:34,899 --> 00:37:35,874
WHISTLE BLOWS
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00:37:44,019 --> 00:37:45,624
F
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Just trying to keep the rain off.
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00:38:02,129 --> 00:38:06,383
Fortunately, there's a good watering
hole for our train enthusiasts
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to dry out in just below
the Viaduct.
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00:38:11,739 --> 00:38:15,433
While above our luxury train,
the Northern Belle,
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00:38:15,458 --> 00:38:16,513
makes the final push...
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00:38:18,849 --> 00:38:23,383
...onwards towards Settle and some
of England's finest views.
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It's the final leg of our ZOO-mile
train journey through north-western
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England aboard the Northern Belle.
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00:38:52,889 --> 00:38:56,823
After six hours of travel,
the sunshine has returned
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00:38:56,848 --> 00:38:59,144
and it's time for afternoon tea.
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00:39:02,649 --> 00:39:06,624
We get the pleasure of seeing
the Great British countryside,
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00:39:06,649 --> 00:39:07,734
and it's beautiful.
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00:39:07,759 --> 00:39:10,984
We meet a lot of interesting
people, we've got a good team
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00:39:11,009 --> 00:39:13,144
and we all work well together.
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00:39:15,039 --> 00:39:16,934
The customers absolutely cheer us
up.
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00:39:16,959 --> 00:39:20,573
It's like they're coming into our
home. They make our day.
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00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,144
F
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00:39:30,169 --> 00:39:33,504
F
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00:39:33,529 --> 00:39:34,504
é
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The last stretch of our journey
passes through some of the finest
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landscapes in the country...
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...and the picturesque Settle.
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Come on.
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00:39:54,319 --> 00:40:00,543
For local outdoor expert Jonathan,
the views close to this railway town
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hold ancient secrets of epic
proportions.
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The Settle-Carlisle line almost
tells a story of England.
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00:40:17,419 --> 00:40:20,954
There are so many
different geological features that
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00:40:20,979 --> 00:40:22,234
encapsulate the area.
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00:40:22,259 --> 00:40:25,314
From station to station, each is
like a separate episode
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00:40:25,339 --> 00:40:26,314
of the story.
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00:40:28,099 --> 00:40:33,354
The story began 200 million years
ago when the distinctive limestone
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00:40:33,379 --> 00:40:37,543
outcrops that surround our
train route were once the floor
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00:40:37,568 --> 00:40:39,264
of a vast tropical ocean.
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00:40:40,539 --> 00:40:45,714
Then it got heaved up to become
mountains that in turn were
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00:40:45,739 --> 00:40:47,984
exposed to the raw elements.
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00:40:48,009 --> 00:40:53,264
The carbon of the rock and the acid
of the rain gradually erode
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00:40:53,289 --> 00:40:55,354
into big divots of the rock
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00:40:55,379 --> 00:40:59,594
called grikes, which is a local
name. And the grikes
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00:40:59,619 --> 00:41:05,074
are the gaps where the water is
eroded down to the bed below.
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00:41:05,099 --> 00:41:08,984
Even from the train window,
this erosion is visible.
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00:41:11,539 --> 00:41:16,904
And, as John knows, this exposure
to the natural elements is precisely
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00:41:16,929 --> 00:41:19,514
what makes this area so spectacular.
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00:41:27,849 --> 00:41:32,673
It's the way the white rock glistens
and glows in the late sunlight.
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00:41:32,698 --> 00:41:35,954
And the Settle-Carlisle railway
passes through this landscape
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00:41:35,979 --> 00:41:40,154
and you can see geology
and history coming alive
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00:41:40,179 --> 00:41:41,954
in this absolutely unique area.
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00:41:54,539 --> 00:41:59,234
Once past Settle, the
Northern Belle makes its final push
553
00:41:59,259 --> 00:42:00,384
back to Preston...
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00:42:02,619 --> 00:42:05,673
...where our journey began
eight hours earlier.
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00:42:10,768 --> 00:42:13,354
It's always lovely when we get
to wave goodbye to all the people
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00:42:13,379 --> 00:42:15,514
on the platform. We've had
family members, friends
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00:42:15,539 --> 00:42:16,714
that are waving us goodbye.
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00:42:16,739 --> 00:42:19,234
It's not an everyday occurrence
that you get to ride on a luxury
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00:42:19,259 --> 00:42:20,793
steam-pulled steam train,
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00:42:20,818 --> 00:42:24,384
so it's always wonderful to be able
to wave everybody goodbye.
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00:42:32,409 --> 00:42:35,993
On our epic ZOO-mile tour
of north-western England...
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00:42:36,018 --> 00:42:37,514
WHISTLE BLOWS
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00:42:37,539 --> 00:42:41,663
...we have travelled through
the magnificent Lake District...
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00:42:42,739 --> 00:42:48,074
...experienced the past like never
before, discovered the wonders
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00:42:48,099 --> 00:42:50,514
that lie along the line
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00:42:50,539 --> 00:42:55,534
and basked in the glory of the
stunning Yorkshire Dales.
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00:42:55,559 --> 00:42:58,683
And all
aboard the Northern Belle,
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00:42:58,708 --> 00:43:02,614
the grand duchess of luxury steam
trains.
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00:43:02,639 --> 00:43:06,844
Our plush grand tour through
England's green pastures
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00:43:06,869 --> 00:43:09,563
has been the experience
of a lifetime.
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00:43:37,958 --> 00:43:41,534
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