Dalegarth for Boot to Ravenglass, Lake District

This is a most picturesque rail journey of 40 minutes between the two stations of
Dalegarth for Boot and Ravenglass, using the RavenGlass and Eskdale Railway.  It’s
actually a miniature train also locally known as La’al Ratty or Little Railway.

Ravenglass La'al Ratty

Dalegarth for Boot is situated at the foot of the Scafell mountain Range while
Ravenglass is a coastal village located in two World Heritage sites, the Lake District
National Park and Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site.

Dalegarth for Boot Station

Ravenglass Station

There are diesel and steam engines that pull 3 types of carriages, the closed, half-open
and open carriages. We sat in the open carriage so that we could have a good view of
the landscape we pass through.

Diesel engine which took us from Dalgarth for Boot

Steam engine ready to take us from Ravenglass back to Dalegarth 

Open carriages

Half-open carriages

Our train from Dalegarth for Boot was pulled by a diesel engine and on the way we passed 

through fields with sheep grazing,

banks of golden daffodils,

pretty houses

Mudflats as we approach Ravenglass

and the muddy beach as it was low tide.

The train finally stopped at Ravenglass and at the end of the line there was a turntable for the engine to be shunted to another line.

The Turntable

We left the train station and headed off to see the ruins of the Roman Baths a short distance away.  I will talk more about them in my next post.