The Settle-Carlisle line is the most scenic rail route in England: a 73-mile trundle through the wide fells of Yorkshire and Cumbria. But it was only built because of dented pride.
In the 1960s, the Spanish government evicted a historical village that was supposed to get flooded by the waters of a new reservoir. Only it never did.
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