The fifteen-inch gauge line, known locally as La'al Ratty, runs seven miles up from the estuary at Ravenglass to Dalegarth for Boot at the head of Eskdale, and it takes dogs the whole way for a flat fare. Dogs are allowed on the trains, in the ticket offices and gift shops, and on the lower floors of both the Turntable Cafe at Ravenglass and Fellbites at Dalegarth, but not in the Joan Pullman observation carriage, First Class carriage 140 or the Ruth director's saloon. Water bowls marked "paws for a drink" are set out around both terminals. Most of the open carriages are unglazed, so a wet dog and a wet walker dry out at much the same rate.
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The railway's cafe on platform one at Ravenglass, doing light meals, snacks, ice cream and hot drinks between trains. The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway's own visitor information permits dogs on the lower floor of its station cafes, which here is the whole seating area, and there are water bowls marked "paws for a drink" around the station. Dogs must be on a short lead. It is the obvious first or last stop of a day on the line, and the estuary and the Roman bath house are five minutes' walk away.
A small glamping site of five-metre canvas bell tents pitched in a wooded corner of the seventy-seven acre Muncaster gardens, each sleeping up to four. Two well-behaved dogs are welcome for an additional charge, but the estate is surrounded by working farmland and asks for dogs on a lead at all times on site. Staying here puts the whole garden and the terrace walk on the doorstep, though dogs are still barred from the castle state rooms and the Hawk and Owl Centre. Ravenglass, the estuary and the railway terminus are a mile down the hill.
Self-catering accommodation in the old stable block at Muncaster Castle, a mile above Ravenglass: nine en-suite bedrooms, a bunk room and bell tents sharing a communal kitchen, dining room and lounge. Dogs cost ten pounds each per night, up to two per room, and must be on a lead in all the public areas and never left alone in the bedroom. Staying here does not by itself get a dog into the gardens, which need a dog ticket bought on arrival, and dogs are not allowed in the castle state rooms or the Hawk and Owl Centre at all. The seventy acres of woodland garden and the Esk estuary path are on the doorstep.
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