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Eliot Andersen	8 Oct 2008, 07:46 PM
Fireman Posts: 212 Group: Member Member #58 Joined: November 13, 2006	The old building at Eskdale (Dalegarth) - as it was then - was about 100 years old when they pulled it down, and certainly was showing its age. It was already secondhand when it was acquired by the railway in 1926! The new building is much better... in theory. Inside, upstairs, the café and shop have now been squeezed into one large room and the counter at the shop end is in the middle of everything. It does look a bit messy. I think a seperate booking office like there used to be would be the better option, and don't get me started on Ravenglass Booking Office, it sends me crazy just thinking about it all. I will agree with the comments about the turntable fencing (at both ends). Especially when they knocked down my favourite wall at Dalegarth. I turned up one day ready to sit on it and eat my bait and found that there was a fence there instead. Muncaster Mill siding will only be missed by enthusiasts. We did not have a gala between 2001 and 2008, so it saw very little use for the several years before it was removed. We no longer run trains of only opens (for the public, at least), and all trains must have a guard's compartment and handbrake. Synolda ran at this year's gala with three coaches - I don't think this would have fitted into Mill Siding anyway.
	Eliot Andersen Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway Volunteer http://cumbria.fotopic.net

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