I get to work on the most scenic railway line in the world

'I get to work on the most scenic railway line in the world'4 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleDanny SavageYorkshireJohn Giles/PAThe Settle-Carlisle line is celebrating 150 years having survived a threat of closure in the 1980sHave you heard the one about the railway line that was threatened with closure, so lots of people started using it and it was saved?Welcome to the Settle to Carlisle line, the quirky steel road through some of Britain's most magnificent countryside.The line starts in Leeds and passes through Shipley and Skipton, but it is the section between North Yorkshire and Cumbria that is world-famous for its views.Heading north from Settle, the peak of Pen-y-Ghent soon looms large, with Whernside and Ingleborough following a few miles later.Nick Wooley/BBCThe line was voted the second most famous in the world last yearKaren Morley-Chesworth from the Settle-Carlisle Railway Development Company said the route was "the best of British countryside"."You can come on the train at Leeds where you bump into people every second, and you get off the train here and there's nobody. There's just scenery."In the 1980s, there was a proposal to close the line but thousands of people - and one dog - objected. There is now a statue of Ruswarp the border collie, who signed the petition with his paw, and was classed as a paying passenger.Passenger services started 150 years ago today, and to mark the occasion, tickets are being made available on the Northern-operated route for 150p each.Nick Wooley/BBCRuswarp's pawprint was counted as a signature towards saving the railwayThis is a line with added value - it is not uncommon for the train conductor to give a running commentary on the landscape passing by.Conductor Aaron Hendry said: "It's the luckiest part of my job, getting to be on this line."Last year it was voted the second most scenic line in the world, and I get to work on it. It's brillia...