Brief Encounter

Carnforth Station, some seven miles north of Lancaster in the UK was the location for the famous film "Brief Encounte" starring Trevor Howard in the good old days of black and white movies. It was a romantic tale of a love affair centred around brief meetings at this railway station. With Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No2 as the musical backdrop it was a guaranteed romantic tear jerker. What I call a Kleenex Special.
The station had fallen into near dereliction sinse those days but around 2002 English Heritage and the EU decided to throw some money at it and restore the station to its former glory. This visitor centre is the result. The old refreshment room is back to where it was and much of the station is fully restored and is indeed a tourist attraction. The steam trains no longer thunder through, alas, only the Virgin Pendolinos and Cross Country trains along with the blue trains of Trans Pennine Railways. Electric bullets or faceless diesels.

Norman