2025 Shap derailment

The 2025 Shap derailment occurred on 3 November 2025 when a passenger train operated by Avanti West Coast ran into a landslide obstructing the West Coast Main Line at Shap Rural, Cumbria, England. Four minor injuries were reported.

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Crosby Ravensworth Fell

Crosby Ravensworth Fell is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Cumbria, England. It is within Yorkshire Dales National Park and is located 2km southwest of the village of Crosby Ravensworth and adjacent to the hamlet of Oddendale. This area is protected because of the lowland heath habitat and limestone pavement habitats present. The M6 motorway passes through this protected area. Part of the heathland on Crosby Ravensworth Fell SSSI is common land. The protected area includes Seal Howe. The long-distance footpath called the coast to coast walk crosses this protected area. Crosby Ravensworth Fell SSSI is adjacent to another protected area called Crosby Gill SSSI and so forms part of a wider area of nature protection.

Scout Green

Scout Green is a hamlet and small area of farm land near the village of Tebay in Cumbria, England.

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Wet Sleddale Meadows

Wet Sleddale Meadows is a Site of Special Scientific Interest within Lake District National Park.

Wet Sleddale Reservoir

Wet Sleddale Reservoir is an artificial reservoir set amongst the Shap Fells 4 kilometres (2 mi) south of the village of Shap in Cumbria, England, and lies just within the boundary of the Lake District National Park. The triangular shaped reservoir, which can store 2,330,406,000 litres (512,618,000 imp gal; 615,628,000 US gal) of water, was created by the construction of a dam across Sleddale Beck in order to supply Manchester with water. The dam is 21 metres (69 ft) high and 600 metres (2,000 ft) long. The extracted water is carried to Haweswater, mainly through tunnels. The beck emerges from the foot of the dam as the River Lowther. There is a public car park beneath the dam from which a public right of way gives access to the south side of the reservoir. Alfred Wainwright describes a walk from here in the Wet Sleddale Horseshoe chapter of his The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. Manchester Corporation were given powers to construct the reservoir under the Haweswater Act, 1919 but construction did not start until the 1960s and completion was in 1966.