Just Highways crying wolf which they’re very good at. The jobsworths will be creaming themselves, remember one on one of the tv documentaries.. falling over himself to shut a road for the police. Copper just said i think we’ll manage and sent him on his way.
Its ok to runaway on the hills if you’re north bound though!
That’s just it, it’s nothing to do with us, Network Rail is calling the shots over this closure.
So Network Rail have come up with this traffic plan and diversion routes?
Personally given the area around there why they doing it in winter? Granted maybe less traffic quite times.
But surely wait untill middle of the year to do it when we there’s bit better.
As I can see the weather being bad and it taking longer than planed /. Delayed.
They’ve liaised with Cumbria police, they’ve suggested the diversion routes as some of them are on roads which we have no authority over.
Westmoreland council highways department have also had input as it’s their area.
Aye but it’s S.West my area, Cornwall and Devon.
I’ve made mates down there and started saying stuff up here like '…‘Where to you going ‘’ and ‘‘Propperr job’’
Then I hear back… ’
‘Wtf you on about man’’. 
Oh yeah I hope so…but I suppose they’d send us over A69 Carlisle to Newcastle.
Somebody mentioned ‘‘Enforcement Cameras’’ I’m kinda getting it now…££££.
Can remember asking for directions down that way many years ago when the choice was that or a good local street map.
The reply was oop the ‘ill and roit at the loits.As they say west of Swindon they are all the paddies that couldn’t swim.Norfolk and Suffolk don’t have that excuse.
But a Geordie cursing a Cumbrian road gang in Thames Estuary English and a bit of cockney rhyming is something else.
Just to clarify I come from a line of Geordies, my surname is actually a Newcastle one I am told… no not Shearer.
I have been a lifelong Toon fan, but I was actually born in Cumbria.
Anybody who ain’t from Newcastle or Carlisle and live south of Manchester can not tell the difference in accents, or at least vowel sounds….but we can obvs.
A bit like us up here, we call everybody from Essex, Kent, and surrounding areas ‘Cockneys’ as well as Londoners.. (usually preceded with an abusive adjective tbh )
Anything north of Watford gap is oop norf to use suvvernas 
Don’t worry about it, I’m a Scouser living in Cumbria for nearly 3 decades and I still can’t understand them!
So do ya wear the shell suit in the patrol car?
Think I’ve seen ya in fact….your the one with the permed hair and tache.
(Think that’s all the stereotypes out the way.)
Btw if it’s Kendal yer from, they ain’t really ‘Cumbrian’.
Nope, I’m in west Cumbria. 
Yeah yeah I believe ya.
As soon as you said Scouser thats just how I imagined you…in a drummer from Frankie goes to Hollywood stylee.
Ironically the best part of the M6 is between Lancaster and Carlisle I’d avoid the rest of it by default.
Watford gap is a lot furver norf than Watford.Positively Midlands turf up there.More of a foreign distant land to us than Loir and Cher or Champagne in France.Scottish borders we get jittery.