Carnforth, Lancashire

Notwithstanding the station's fame for its part in the classic British black and white film "Brief Encounter", Carnforth is best known amongst railfans for the well-known railway museum "Steamtown", which has now been closed for some years. The site, occupied now by West Coast Railways, resembles more of a breakers yard than an active railway base, with a host of derelict locomotives and coaches laying about. The site is dominated by the huge concrete coaling plant and ash plant, remnants from the days of steam. But the main station, now devoid of its platforms on the WCML, is still an interesting location and can still provide some earlier railway architecture, including semaphores on the Cumbrian Coast line.