We currently have two podcasts about the Settle Carlisle railway which we hope you will enjoy. We hope to add more in the future.

• https://open.spotify.com/episode/6c7AbFcVanvw1VxQxdEK4O this is a discussion between Ann Busfield and Paul Haywood with Anna Jackson, who is Commercial Manager of Settle and Carlisle Railway Properties and also Friends of Settle and Carlisle Railway and Settle and Carlisle Railway Trust. 2026 is the 150th anniversary of the SCR first carrying passenger traffic, and Anna gives us a good description of all the activities planned to celebrate this anniversay. Anna also talks in detail about the problems in keeping the line running, and the projects running to attract visitors.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5H3ddLswCM The Settle Carlisle railway line has survived against all the odds. It became a high profile cause celebre for campaigners and a political football for railway administrators over a long drawn out period beginning in the 1960s with the publication of Richard Beaching’s infamous report and ending in the late 1980s with a remarkable reprieve.

  On 1st May 2026, this glorious railway celebrated its 150th anniversary, a celebration that for many years, look seriously in doubt. Green Signals spent a couple of days on the railway in glorious weather including the all important 150th anniversary day to speak to some of the people and to hear their stories of saving the line back in the 1980s and the work that is done today to ensure the line’s present as well as its future.