Recent content by Mintcake Maker

Hi everyone, last week I saw the painters in at Oxenholme sprucing the place up a bit and was wondering if this was part of a rolling improvement off all stations or something specific to Oxenholme as the buffet on platform 2/3 has also been done up (new signage and bit of a change around...

Funny you should mention Oxenholme should change its name. Several years ago the then mayor-elect of Kendal suggested that the name be changed to somehow include Kendal, since this would (hopefully) increase tourist numbers arriving by rail and also help stop the problem whereby people have...

Hi all long time lurker, first time poster. You can probably guess where I’m from by my name and since I’m also a university student I do a lot of travel by rail. So reading this thread got me thinking about the Windermere branch and possible electrification and solutions to said problems...