RAILWAYS, BUSES AND BEER

Continuing our tour of the city of Carlisle, we now take a look at Carlisle Citadel station.

 In pre-grouping times, a great variety of locomotives coud be seen, including those of the Glasgow & South Western.

Perhaps the London & North Western provided more locos than the others.

Of course, the Midland Railway arrived from the direction of Leeds.

The North Eastern Railway came into Carlisle from Newcastle, though this view of No. 511 was taken in LNER days.

Other companies include the Maryport & Carlisle and the Caledonian Railway.

Moving into BR times, 40145 and a sister pass through the station.

87034 'William Shakespeare' is on an up express in 1979.

A refurbished DMU in the bays used by the local services.

31411 with a Leeds service via Settle.

Pendolinos have taken over most of Carlisle's InterCity duties.

57311 forms the standby loco.

86901, in Network Rail livery, was found in the station in 2006.

Northern Rail run most of the local services south from Carlisle.

There's plenty of freight to be seen passing through.

Back in 2004 the station's refuse was collected by this vehicle constructed by Marshall's of Cambridge.

In the 1970s, Carlisle's major bus operator was Ribble Motor Services.

By the 1990s, Cumberland Motor Services had taken over.

Routemasters were used for a short time!

Stagecoach is now the dominant operator.

Scottish operators were a common sight in Carlisle. Western SMT was one of them.

Western SMT even had a depot in the city, though why a United Counties Leyland National 2 was in there is anyone's guess.

Eastern Scottish served Carlisle, with an express serving the former 'Waverley' rail route.

Eastern Scottish became part of Firstbus.

Over the years, Carlisle has seen several independent operators. One was MacEwans, running in from the Dumfries area.

White Star, no longer in business, ran a serice to and from Moffat.

A local operator, Reay's, now has several local routes.

Blair & Palmer, based in the city, ran a couple of rural routes.

Palmer's of Carlisle (no relation) had a variety of buses for schools and contract duties.

The Carlisle State Brewery later fell into the hands of Theakston's.

The Cumberland Inn is a former State Brewery owned house. Read about it here.

The Woodrow Wilson is the city's Wetherspoons.

The Griffin is very handy for the station.

The King's Head is a good city centre pub.

On the way out of town, the Turf Tavern, seen as a Whitbread house, but now a Greene King 'Hungry Horse'.

Well, that's it for Carlisle city centre. The next post will see us entering Scotland.