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Carlisle was always one of my favourite rail centres. Being brought up in Edinburgh I loved taking the train to Carstairs (usually cl47 hauled) then connecting with an electric hauled portion from Glasgow Central, then south approaching Carlisle past the massive Kingmoor yard/depot. Kingmoor was always a great place to see cl40s aswell as electrics. The only drawback with Carlisle station was the avoiding line used by freight trains which narrowed down the variety of locos to be seen at the station. ( I forgot to mention that the period I have described is the early-mid 80s). I'm not old enough to remember it in the non-electrified era and I'm fascinated by the variety of motive power at that time, especially the cl40s and cl50s.
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