Bassenthwaite Lake Station, Cumbria: 'Magical things are happening' | Grace Dent on restaurants

Basenthwaite Lake Station in the North Lakes of Cumbria is not actually a working railway station. If you've ever tried living in this Unesco World Heritage Site, it won't come as a surprise. There was once a very useful railway linking Penrith, Keswick and Cockermouth which passed through picturesque villages and served the local community, but someone brilliant closed it in 1966. So for the past three and a half decades, the transport issues around Embleton, Dubwath and Braithwaite have mostly been covered by a man called Colin in a Vauxhall Tigra, assuming he's not at the pig auction.