Talk:Keswick

Quarry tour

@Ikan Kekek, AlasdairW: I agree that my prose was somewhat non-committing; it was intentional rather than dialectal as i found the tour hard to concisely describe. This owes to the tour being un-narrated and shorter than one might expect. The carriages leave from below the museum, go past a mine entrance, pass by a workshop and an open area chock-full of industrial machinery, then terminate in an area immediately above. There you can see boulders, scree strewn banks and shovelling machinery, and draw the connection that it was an area of quarrying. You spend about 10 minutes up there, we personally just looked at rocks, then the locomotive takes you back down. There is a loud squeak whenever the track bends, and having sensitive hearing i would have worn ear defenders.

There were workers near the machinery and i thought perhaps it was a restoration project. I wondered if all the machines were from the locale, as they were so numerous and such a variety. I'm no expert however.

If the tour previously went 'inside' somewhere it doesn't anymore. I happened to overhear that since Covid there haven't been tours inside the mine, and won't be in the near future, with the timberwork needing updating inside. There are apparently more immediate plans to build a cafe and work on the tracks.

Hopefully that provides some context and aids in an accurate description. FWIW, the current text seems ok, but i wonder if it could be worded differently to avoid compounding mis-understanding that the tour goes inside the mine. Regards, Zindor (talk) 13:58, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

I would say it would be best to provide all the specifics you provided here (without any first-person language, per Wikivoyage:Pronouns, etc.). Ikan Kekek (talk) 14:22, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Of course, how's this?

"Propelled by either a steam or diesel heritage locomotive, carriages leave from below the museum and go past a mine entrance, then ascending past a workshop and an area containing many industrial machines. Further above the tour stops for a break of 5-10 minutes. Here evidence of quarrying can be seen as well as associated shovelling equipment. The locomotive then brings passengers back to the starting point." Zindor (talk) 14:40, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Good. (Tiny tweak: "then ascend.") Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:47, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, i've now updated the text. Zindor (talk) 20:21, 28 April 2022 (UTC)