I know - we were rather sitting on the wrong side - but fortunatly our elderly neighbours were quite happy for me to point my camera towards their window now and again.

I somehow didn't manage to get a picture of the remains of the keep. We were talking about the way the railway just goes through the middle of the New Castle itself at that point. And Paul pointed out that the castle was built by 'the enemy' to keep the northerners under control - so they wuld have had no qualms, all those years later, in cheerfully putting a railway line through it.

It was a fantastic way to travel - throughly recommend it as a special occasion thing.