Posted by Jock on March 20, 2014 at 13:04:09 user Jock.
My apologies if this has been the subject of a TarBoard post before, but I have just come across this delightful film showing the passage of 'The Lakes Express' from Euston to Windermere:
The steam locomotives would have been rather more old fashioned, when the Swallows travelled to the Lake via Strickland Junction (PP). or Dick joined Dorothea at Crewe (PM). William Stanier became Chief Mechanical Engineer of the LMS in 1933 and this 1938 film showcases many of the locomotive types that he had built.But the stations and scenery would have been little changed. Indeed they would have been little changed even after WWII, until the brutal vandalism inflicted on Britain's railway network in the 1960s, but then I'm drifting off topic...
Railway buffs will find more fascinating railway background here: