Carlisle and Newcastle

After Keswick I went to nearby Carlisle, which is near the border with Scotland. Hadrian's Wall is also nearby, and marked the extent of Roman settlement in ancient Britain. I see from descriptions that you have to go a bit out of Carlisle to see the wall so I think it's not in my pictures.

I took a couple of pictures of the city to record my passage.

I had decided to take a west to east train service to Newcastle-on-Tyne just to be able to say I had been there, before returning to London. I can't even be certain that these photos are from Newcastle, but I remember it the hour was in the late afternoon so the gloom fits. I remember the train service was slow because it was a cross-country route and not a major north-south route.

Presumably this is a pedestrian street in Newcastle. It doesn't look like a London scene. I also don't remember whether I overnighted in Newcastle or took a night train back to London. Probably the former. So really the detour was to avoid retracing my outbound route from London to the Lake District.