We stayed at quite a lot of youth hostels between 1963 and
1974. Until 1968, we also did quite a lot of train spotting. In some instances,
we combined the two.
Towards the end of steam on British Railways, surviving
locomotives were concentrated in the north west of England, at depots like
Carnforth and Carlisle Kingmoor. We visited both, as part of our hostelling
forays to the Lake District.
We referred to Ambleside’s Walnut Café as “Café Walnut” to bestow
on it a bit of the glamour that it lacked in real life. We spent a lot of time
in there when it was raining - which was quite a lot of the time. It’s now a
chippy.
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