View of "Southern Cross" one of the two unique Curwen built scale liners that plied the lake during the heydays of the SMR. The sister ship was "Northern Star" and both were replicas of their full size cousins of the "Shaw Saville" line. In fact, they were the largest scale passenger carrying ships in the world. They were sold or scrapped after closure.

A trip on the train and then a cruise followed by picnic in the park was one of the main East Midlands attractions in the 60's and 70's