Wensleydale ditches public transport goal for heritage
THE controversial sale of the Wensleydale Railway’s Aysgarth station has been accompanied by a major about-turn in the line’s short, medium and long-term strategies.
The overall aspirations of the Wensleydale Railway Association when it was formed 28 years ago, to restore ‘real’ community passenger services and eventually rebuild the entire 40-mile trans-Pennine route linking Garsdale on the Settle and Carlisle Line to Northallerton on the East Coast Main Line are being edited down or discarded in favour of the running of a self-sufficient heritage railway over a far more financially feasible “bite sized” distance.
The move is a diametric contrast to the direction of the Swanage Railway, which as reported in News,
