Great review Marcus. I took a slightly similar approach.
Boarded 156481 on 2N12 (0900) from Haltwhistle to Prudhoe as a means of milking the Ranger I bought for today's jolly. Very good unit and soon enough I was at Prudhoe station, somewhere I still needed for 'shackage' (basically saying if you've boarded/alighted a train here before - on the Tyne Valley line I still need Brampton, Bardon Mill, Riding Mill, Stocksfield, Wylam and Blaydon).
Alighted here for a brief 10-min wait for 2N13 (0942) Prudhoe to Carlisle. I was going to get this train over from Haltwhistle anyway so I thought I might as well go a bit further for the same price/ticket! 142086 turned up, which was a pretty decent unit apart from me standing right next to the toilet for pretty much the whole 60min journey...
Got to Carlisle where I pottered around for a bit, going to Greggs (
) and Home Bargains for some unnutritious crap for my dinner before returning to the station where I met my traincrew colleagues who would be working 2C48, the Saturdays-only 1156 Carlisle to Lancaster loco-hauled service. Boarded 37611 and 37409 and had a brilliant little ride down the Coast to Workington.Met one of my other friends here and we walked from the rail station to the bus station where we caught 47060 over to Lillyhall; being informed that it would be £1.40! I think it was free from Whitehaven up instead of Workington... Not to worry, got there on that little Solo (not great, not bad - I generally hate Stagecoach's MAN Solos) where we had a look around for an hour or so before I got bored so we boarded the 'Big Lemon' to Whitehaven.
Got another Greggs (
) here before walking along the promenade thing and going to Tesco to get a 5-pack of chocolate doughnuts (1 remains now). Waited in the sun at Whitehaven rail station where we got the 1507 service to Carlisle, with 156490 - another good unit! Passed the other Loco-Hauled set outside Workington which I would've wanted to do however I wouldn't have been back into Carlisle until 2030 and would have to suffer the booze-ex back home. Got to Carlisle and caught the 1628 back to Haltwhistle as by this time I had a headache and was tired. 
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