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  • "Having explored the various train journeys from Blackburn on weekends I cannot agree with Michaels Williams regarding this particular route and find myself echoing Noiticers opinion, although I must declare a bias.
    My parents live on the outskirts of Carlisle and for me, the Sunday DalesRail journey is a chance of a family lunch.
    However, I kept seeing a familiar face on the station in Blackburn and fell into conversation with him regarding his reason for being on that train. It turns out that he was an avid fell-walker and loved the way that the train offered the chance to ramble. Whether you like to wander, lonely as a cloud, or in droves, like sheep, it's all there.
    I only wish that train would stop in Penrith, a lovely place to explore, but it doesn't.
    Be warned though, it tends to rain a lot up there and as malicious rumour has it, children are born wearing wellies and a mac.
    ... ... ... ... ...
    DalesRail walks begin on Easter Sunday and run throughout the Summer so you have a chance to 'do' them all or just have a bit of fresh air in the middle of nowhere. Lookup DaleRail online and download the pdf.

    Me? I'll be going 'home' for some of my Mums' cooking."
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Lancashire train journey named as one of Britain's best

A TRAIN journey through the heart of Lancashire has been named one of the 10 best in Britain by a new book.

The trip along the Colne to Blackpool South line, which goes through Nelson, Burnley, Accrington and Blackburn, is in ‘On The Slow Train Again’.

It is written by Michael Williams – a journalism lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire who has been a former deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday as well as head of news and features at The Sunday Times.

He describes the 50-mile journey as the ‘most charismatic’ in the country.

In the book he adds: “This is a railway on few people’s tourist map, yet the slow train across the industrial heart of Lancashire offers more concentrated riches, mile for mile in terms of landscape and heritage, than anywhere else.”

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