England's most beautiful railway is just an ordinary train

No steam ticket. No tour. Just an ordinary train over the Ribblehead Viaduct 🚆 Skip the steam excursions. The ordinary train crosses the same viaduct on an ordinary ticket. The Settle to Carlisle line is a regular train that climbs out of the Yorkshire Dales and over the Pennines on viaducts and through tunnels. 🚆 Leeds to Carlisle: 2 h 39 to 2 h 48, with 9 through trains on weekdays and 6 on Sundays 🌉 Ribblehead Viaduct: 24 arches, 104 ft above the moor, and every train calls at Ribblehead station beside it 🥾 The Ribblehead circular: a 3.6-mile walk from the station, under the arches, with Whernside and Ingleborough in view. Allow at least 2 hours ⛰️ Dent: about 350 m up, usually called England's highest main-line station 🏰 Appleby on the way, and Carlisle's red sandstone castle at the end Short on time? Settle to Carlisle alone takes about 1 h 38. These times run to 12 December, and a new timetable starts on 13 December, so check before you go. 👉 Swipe for the stops and the walk. Save this for your trip and send it to who you'd go with. Window seat or the walk? 👇 📷 Samuel Girven / Unsplash · Rosser1954 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0