Lune Gorge, Lake District and Yorkshire Dales National Parks, near Tebay, Cumbria, UK

            The Lune Gorge (aka Lune Gap or Tebay Gorge) has to be the most scenic section of motorway and mainline railway in the UK, familiar to a huge number of people, if not from this angle.  This isn't a drone shot: my quaintly old-fashioned approach was to actually climb Birk Knott, using legs.

North-south traffic across the uplands between the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales has passed through the beautiful Lune Gorge for millennia.  Barely visible at the upper left, the single-track Fairmile Road (carrying the 'Pennine Cycleway', Route 68 of the National Cycle Network) was once Wicker Street, the Roman road from Manchester to Carlisle.
More recently, the main western railway from London to Scotland (the West Coast Main Line) was constructed on the opposite of the Lune, opening in 1846.  The same route was followed by the UK's oldest and longest motorway, the M6, which was split into two carriageways contoured against the hillside (explaining the apparent sinuosity!); this section opened in 1970.

Since 2016, this has been the point where the National Parks of the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District almost meet. On the left, the western boundary of the former is the railway line, whilst to the right, the Lake District ends on the bank above the motorway.

Taken in: UK / England / Eden District / Low Borrowbridge (show map)

Taken on: August 18, 2013

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Sets appears in: • Lune Valley: Tebay to Sedbergh

Groups appears in: • Cumbria, England • NorthWest England more » • UK Landscapes, Sea and Country. • The British Countryside • Cumbria • River Lune « less

Camera: Canon EOS 60D, f/5.6, 1/80 sec, 76mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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