2682, ‘Princess’ 0-6-0 arrives at Lakeside Station. Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway
What’s not to like about a steam train on a preserved railway? Lakeside on Windermere has evolved from a 17th century coaching inn to a Victorian, then Edwardian, railway resort with the arrival of rails from Ulveston in 1869. It was (and is still) a popular interchange between the lake steamers and the railway. Passenger rail service reopened briefly after WW2 but the line was finally closed in 1965. A large part of the line and yard at Haverthwaite was built over for the A590 trunk road, severing the Lakeside branch from the BR network. Nonetheless the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway reopened to passenger traffic in 1973 under enthusiastic private ownership.