The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway, Robert Weston, Oakwood Press, 2007
In The Times of 26th August 1998 there was a news item headed \u2018Ministers pledge cash for revival of rail links\u2019.Prominent against the text was a large photograph of Bassenthwaite Lake Station, taken in 1959. Holidaymakers and local people are alighting from the two-coach train; the people in the photograph look happy. The station is well cared for with hedges neatly trimmed and flowers in the borders. The hills, so impressive, make a superb backdrop to the scene. It is idyllic. Yet all is not well even though the people in the picture are smiling, possibly for the camera. The guard seems to look rather more concerned than happy; the railway system in this part of the country was coming under close scrutiny and, ultimately, a threat. In only a little more than a decade after the photograph was taken, the line would be closed. In the accompanying article the writer informed his readers about the recent move by the Government to give the green light to a string of railway cons.
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