Catch The Bus To The Marmalade Festival

Visitors to the World Marmalade Awards and Festival this Saturday can travel there on a special Stagecoach bus.

The Marmalade Bus provides an hourly shuttle service between Penrith Railway Station, Rheged and Pooley Bridge, stopping on the main road outside Dalemain where the festival is held.

Tom Waterhouse, Managing Director of Stagecoach Cumbria and North Lancashire, said:
“It’s a privilege to be involved in this wonderful festival, which attracts interest from around the world and raises a huge amount for charity.

“The Marmalade Bus is the environmentally-friendly way to get there. You can do your bit for the planet and avoid parking worries.

“It’s always a busy event so the bus is definitely the way to go.

“We won’t be charging fares but there will be buckets on board to raise money for Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Cumbria. We hope passengers will donate any spare change.”

The Marmalade Bus leaves Penrith Railway Station every hour from 9.10am to 5.10pm and takes just 13 minutes to reach Dalemain. Passengers can join the bus at Rheged at 18 minutes past the hour.

Return buses leave Pooley Bridge every hour from 9.40am to 5.40pm, stopping at Dalemain seven minutes later and calling at Rheged on request to the driver.

Details at: https://www.dalemain.com/free-festival-day-bus

Connecting Stagecoach buses run to Penrith every half hour from Carlisle and from Workington, Cockermouth and Keswick. Details at: https://www.stagecoachbus.com/timetables

The Marmalade Bus is sponsored by Westmorland Family, the operator of Rheged, which is hosting the Forty Farms food and craft fair on the same day as the Marmalade Festival. The bus enables foodies to get to both events.

Beatrice Hasell-McCosh, director of the Dalemain World Marmalade Awards, added: “We are delighted to be working with Stagecoach and the Westmorland Family to bring you a free bus during the day of the Festival.

“The free shuttle bus service will cover journeys between Penrith Railway Station, Rheged, where there is a large farmers market taking place on the 20th April, Dalemain and Pooley Bridge where businesses are taking part in the ‘Go Orange’ campaign.

“There will also be a special Marmalade gin tasting cruise on the Ullswater Steamers leaving from the Pooley Bridge Pier at 6.30pm on the 20th April”. Details at: https://www.ullswater-steamers.co.uk/events/marmalade-gin-tasting-cruise

The Marmalade Festival is from 10am to 4pm and is free to enter with stalls, activities and marmalade tasting. Entry into the mansion and gardens is a special festival price of £11, children under 12 go free.

Highlights include an artisan marmalade tasting and an opportunity to buy some of the winning marmalades and meet Paddington Bear, the world’s most famous marmalade aficionado.

There will be two Marmalade Question Time sessions where experts answer questions on all matters marmalade related.

And there are talks by Fortnum’s archivist Louise Woof and Helen Rebanks, author of The Farmer’s Wife: My Life In Days, plus a demonstration of marmalade using yuzu by Atsuko Hayashi from The English Kitchen in Tokyo. Talks, Question Times and Demo tickets are available to buy on the day of the festival or book online now at www.dalemain.com to avoid disappointment.

More information online at: https://www.dalemain.com/the-festival