Three stations in one day!

A safe journey North, arriving in Carlisle in beautiful early evening sunshine…

Bristol Temple Meads Railway Station “opened on 31 August 1840 as the western terminus of the Great Western Railway from London Paddington. The railway, including Temple Meads, was the first one designed by the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.” Wikipedia

Birmingham New Street Railway Station “is the eighth busiest railway station in the UK and the busiest outside London… The original New Street station was built in the Victorian era and had the largest single-span arched roof in the world… A £550m redevelopment of the station named Gateway Plus is currently under way. The redevelopment… is expected be completed in 2015.” Wikipedia

Carlisle Railway Station “also known as Carlisle Citadel station… was built in 1847, in a neo-Tudor style to the designs of William Tite.” Wikipedia