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2-3 The Saving of the Settle-Carlisle by Gra­ ham Nuttall


4 Tony Thorpe meets Gary Boyle 5 Clive Barnden visits an exhibition at Towneley Hall


6 Great W.H.Smith prize contest 7 Cross-country ski-ing with Vivien Meath 8 Ian Wooldridge re-lives the Burnley v Orient game


9 Eating Out, Sharon Dale at Cowling


10,11 At Home with the Home Secretary, by Vivien Meath


12 Wine,Gardening 13 A walk and a pint with Paul Wilson 14 Fishing with Mick Cookson 15 Invitation to a Victorian Christmas by Brian Hall


16 Murray Walker and the new Land-Rover Discovery


17 Women’s scene with Sharon Dale 18 Christmas pantomimes round-up by Alison Hansford


19 Youth Scene with Murray Walker and Toby Chapman


20 Ribchester’s Museum of Childhood


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The saving of the


IT came as a big shock when Harold Nelson, the local National Union of Railwaymen secretary, told me in 1981 that the Settle to Carlisle Line was to be closed by 1984, because Ribblehead Viaduct needed millions spending on it.


I had organised a public meeting at Settle Town Hall as the first step towards saving the line. When ring­ ing to book the room I for­ got those vital words “to hold a meeting in”. As a result, I was asked by the lady if I wanted a single or a double! (It was obviously an accommodation service too).


By the end of June, 1981,


would last longer than the Second World War! I was extremely lucky in


Colne rail enthusiast Mr


David Burton agreed to be chairman of the meeting and despite a dismal attendance the Friends of the Settle to Carlisle Line Association was formed. Disappointed at the attendance, Mr Bur­ ton said not to be down­ hearted as “from little acorns great oak trees grow”. Little did we realise that the fight to save the line


having a friend who worked for British Rail. For obvious reasons I shall call him Mr Mole. One day the group received a letter from the then BR chairman Sir Peter Parker stating that: “BR has no plans or desire to close the Settle to Carlisle- line." By an amazing coin­ cidence I received a letter from Mr Mole on the same day stating that a BR offi­ cial had visited its Eastern Region to brief departments on plans to close the line! Our “intelligence” depart­


ment was a good deal better than that of the Govern­


ment, who at one stage in the campaign we suspected were interfering with mail delivered to the “sister group” of FOSCLA, the Settle to Carlisle Joint Action Committee (who had an office in Lancaster). Even my dog Ruswarp,


named after the Esk Valley Station, near Whitby, played a part in the cam­ paign. I mentioned him in my official objection to the closure and as a result the press dubbed him as the first dog to object to a rail­ way closure. A number of national


newspapers photographed my border collie cross dog. The “Lancaster Guardian”


Rail expert and enthusiast GRAHAM NUTTALL looks back at the fight to save Britain’s most spectacular rail­ way line and looks to a much more promising future


printed the result of an interview with me, I read with amazement that I was quoted as follows: “Mr Nut­ tall says the dog has a right to be heard at the public inquiry.” Eventually, Ruswarp


attended the closure hear­ ings with me and was intro­ duced by Mrs Olive Clarke, the charming chairman of the North Western Trans­ port Users’ Consultative Committee, as “the only dog that sends me a Christmas card!”


I worked for hours on my


speech for the Appleby hearing. My theme was that the so-called alternative bus services would be “gone with the wind” once the railway had been closed a year or two, as had hap­ pened in most cases in the past. By then FOSCLA was


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One of the many letters we received


RECENTLY my cousin, who lives in Burnley, sent “Out­ look” on to me, and I enjoyed reading it very much indeed. Despite leaving my birth place in 193(5, I am a fervent


Lancastrian; so much so that in my spare bedroom I have a “museum” dedicated to traditional industries and Lancashire folk in particular. On my too infrequent visits, I’ve visited mills, shuttle factories, doggers and the Hapton Valley pit, just before it closed, and have talked to so many people who retain their pride in their work, and their pride in being Lancastrians. The article by Paul Wilson (a walk up Boulsworth Hill)


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COVER PICTURE: The Victorian age comes to life inside the Weavers Triangle Visitor Centre


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