Carlisle

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Carlisle was a city in Cumbria, (PROSE: Torchwood: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...["Torchwood: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"]) England that Clara Oswald once called the "opposite of bliss", which the Eleventh Doctor agreed with. (TV: Hide ^[+]Loading...["Hide (TV story)"]) It was famous for its Roman wall, for which Ian Chesterton may have been partially responsible. While a slave in 64, he tried to ingratiate himself to General Gaius Augustus Calaphilus by suggesting that the Roman "try building a great big wall from Carlisle to Newcastle" to keep the Scots out. (PROSE: Byzantium! ^[+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"])

The town also had a bit of significance to Jamie McCrimmon. Not counting McCrimmon himself, the second-most-travelled person in his home village in the Scottish Highlands could only boast as having gone as far as Carlisle. Prior to Jamie's life in the TARDIS, Carlisle evoked a sense of being "far away". (PROSE: Twilight of the Gods ^[+]Loading...["Twilight of the Gods (MA novel)"])

In the 2000s, the inhabitants of the Hambleton Estate often shared to shopping trips to Carlisle. (PROSE: The Lost Boy ^[+]Loading...["The Lost Boy (novelisation)"])

Having landed on Starfall, and incorrectly assumed they were in 18th century Bristol, the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler hopped on the back of a steam-powered vehicle which Rose thought "Might be going to Carlisle". (PROSE: The Resurrection Casket ^[+]Loading...["The Resurrection Casket (novel)"])

There was a train station in Carlisle. Abby McPhail and Shawna Thompson passed through Carlisle on the way to Glasgow. (AUDIO: Regrets ^[+]Loading...["Regrets (audio story)"])

Emergency services

George Smithers knew that, at one point, there were two concrete police boxes in Carlisle. Also, the city was close enough to the seaside village of Whitley Bay that policeman Gordon M. McGarry identified Carlisle as the provider of ambulance service to the village in the mid-20th century. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People ^[+]Loading...["Invasion of the Cat-People (novel)"])

Commerce

In the 20th century, trains from Euston station to Carlisle and Sellafield changed at Preston. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People ^[+]Loading...["Invasion of the Cat-People (novel)"])

Harwood's Haulage, Rhys Williams' employer, operated out of Carlisle, Birmingham, Ipswich, Sheffield and Cardiff. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang ^[+]Loading...["Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)"])