The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway is a 15 inch gauge heritage railway, affectionately known as La’al Ratty – ‘little railway’ in the old Cumbrian dialect. It was built between 1874-75 to haul iron ore from mines near the village of Boot, in Eskdale. It began carrying passengers in 1876 and in the 1920s transported granite. Since
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The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is the longest aqueduct in Britain, its highest navigable aqueduct and part of a World Heritage Site. It was designed by Thomas Telford (1757-1834) and carries the Llangollen Canal 126 feet (38 m) over the valley of the River Dee. The Aqueduct was built between 1795 and 1805 is 1,008 yards (307
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Cutty Sark is a famous 19th century sailing ship, built in Dumbarton in 1869, and is the world’s only surviving tea-clipper. She was one of the last clippers ever built, and one of the fastest; before improvements in steam-power, Cutty Sark held the record sailing time between Australia and Britain for a decade. The ship
The Lakeland Motor Museum is something for the petrol-heads, the nostalgists – and a great rainy day option for the Lakes. This is a serious motor museum. 30,000 exhibits are claimed, including wonderful classic cars, bicycles (who knew there were so many types?) and what is possibly the largest collection of ‘automobilia’ (motoring memorabilia) in
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Tower Bridge is the iconic Gothic-Victorian bridge that crosses the Thames at the Pool of London and opens to allow ships to pass through. When it opened, London was the busiest port in the world. Seeing the roadways – bascules – open is quite a sight; and it happens roughly twice a day.
