FIVE years after Storm Desmond school children from Threlkeld and St Herbert's Primary Schools helped to officially open the Keswick to Threlkeld Railway trail.
The route had been cut off until work to repair it in the wake of damage caused by flooding during Storm Desmond in 2015.
Two children from the schools were the first through Bobbin Mill tunnel which has been re-opened for the first time in nearly 50 years as part of the £7.9m project to fully reconnect the route.
Monty and Holly, both aged 10, were joined by the Mayor of Keswick, town councillor Paul Titley, chief executive of the Lake District National Park Authority, Richard Leafe, along with a number of other community representatives for a celebration.
The project included rebuilding and repairing 5 miles of the trail
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