The Lake District is Britain's busiest and most popular National Park but its also crippled by traffic and parking problems because it is only accessible by road. Luckily, Victorian industrial demand had already constructed a railway right through the heart of the area - the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway. Unluckily, that railway had been closed completely in 1972 - just as mass tourism to Lakeland was about to take off. So what does the line look like in the 2020s when there are more cars on the road than ever before? And how likely are the growing calls to bring trains back to Keswick?
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