At Ribblehead, you will find a station and a pub; appropriately named the Station Inn.
The hostelry has just been bought by Andrew Hields, who said the pub and viaduct were “iconic”.
“It’s a few thousand people a year who come in from the train for sure,” he said.
“This place wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the railway 150 years ago.”
The railway has some stations so far from the towns and villages they purport to serve, you need to bring your walking boots – Dent is four and a half miles from the village itself, but geography dictated where the tracks went.
In 2026, the railway is used by regular passenger services, commuters, steam engines and even mainline trains travelling between London and Glasgow when a diversion is required.
When a steam train passes by, you can easily imagine what it was like here a century and a half ago.
