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In 2025 we will be celebrating our 150th anniversary. We’re not building a railway, but we are renewing the track (or part of it) every winter, to keep the “La’al Ratty” (‘la’al’ meaning ‘small’) alive. Echoing the work of a century-and-a-half prior, today Katie has been moving materials for this winter’s track renewals in Mill Wood. Rails have been moved from Ravenglass, and sleepers from Murthwaite, for work scheduled to take place in January. The unloading has been assisted greatly by some of