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Let it happen bass player.

Yet another excellent day for weather and because there's more to life than trains, today would be a day for bagging fells.

A very enjoyable 11 mile walk from Linton, red-penning Thorpe Fell Top, then Cracoe obelisk on Cracoe Fell and then Rylstone Cross before returning to Cracoe obelisk and dropping down to Cracoe to return via Threapland to Linton.

And quite by chance and in no way planned, 60076 CROSS FELL was spotted on 6D50 on Real Time Trains. So Rylstone Cross was a good place to sit and eat crisps and watch its progress from Sandy Beck, under bridges, over bridges, to its destination at Rylstone Quarry.

It's seen here approaching Rylstone village with the Malhamdale hills of Pikedaw and Kirkby Fell top centre and Ingleborough coming into scene top right. All conquered many times.

60076 CROSS FELL, 6D50, 10.11 Hunslet to Rylstone.

I've been into trains and music for as long as I've been into rambling and an early memory is doing the Great Ridge above Edale in 1981 and looking down on a class 40 working a cement train from much the same distance and height.

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"The East West DEMU" charter train, promoted by Hastings Diesels Ltd. and operated by GBRf, passes the HS2 construction site near the village of Steeple Claydon - the site of the former Claydon LNE Jn., where a wartime connection was built between the former Great Central (LNER) and LNWR (LMS) routes. This is the outward leg, 1Z49 09.02 Hastings - Milton Keynes Central, which had already set down passengers at Bicester Village.

After reaching Milton Keynes, the train reversed fairly quickly and returned by the same route, although there was a break for everyone of about an hour and a half at Bicester Village.

The East-West Rail line crosses over the future HS2 in the background, and the big area behind the train is the location of a track construction and maintenance base for HS2; there is already a connection from the EWR line (hidden by the train), although it doesn't go more than a few yards.

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Visiting loco 52322 with the first train of the day, framed by the South Lakeland scenery at Backbarrow, on the Lakeside & Haverthwaite

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60532 Blue Peter on an unassisted climb away from Oxenholme through the fells, overlooking Kendal, with the Lakelander

Tags:   60532 Blue Peter A2 Peppercorn steam train railway line Oxenholme Kendal Grayrigg Summit Cumbria South Lakeland Benson Hall fells hills Lakelander Saphos Trains LSL

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