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Carlisle railway station, or Carlisle Citadel, is a Grade II* listed [1] railway station serving the cathedral city of Carlisle, Cumbria, England. It is on the West Coast Main Line , 102 miles (164 km) south-east of Glasgow Central and 299 miles (481 km) north north-west of London Euston .
Carlisle station is 7.4 kilometres (4.6 mi) from Perth station [6] and is in fare zone one. [7] Before it was demolished, Carlisle station consisted of a 100-metre-long (330 ft) island platform which was accessed by two pedestrian level crossings at each end of the platform. The steep ramps to access the platform made the station not fully ...
The station opened on 28 September 1846 [1] as the temporary terminus of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. Through trains operated from 20 April 1847 [2] when the Kendal and Windermere Railway opened its line to Windermere. The second platform at the station was taken out of use when the line was singled in May 1973.
A 1904 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (left) railways in the vicinity of Maryport (M&C in pink; LNWR in red). Two railway companies originally served the town: the Maryport and Carlisle Railway (M&C), which opened the line to Carlisle in stages between 1840 and 1845, and the Whitehaven Junction Railway which ran southwards to Workington and Whitehaven and opened in 1847.
Dent railway station is on the historic Settle-Carlisle Line, with services to Leeds railway station and Carlisle railway station. Dent village is approximately 4.8 miles (8 km) by road to the west, and 400 ft (120 m) below the height of the station, with Cowgill being the nearest small village, located around half a mile away but at the foot of a steep (maximum 20% or 1 in 5) spiral access road.
Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Barrow Pier, Barrow Strand and Barrow Central) is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line and Furness Line, 85 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (138 km) south-west of Carlisle and 34 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (56 km) north-west of Lancaster, in the town of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
The station was opened on 30 December 1844 by the Maryport and Carlisle Railway. It replaced Carlisle Water Street station, which opened a year earlier. The station closed on 17 March 1849 [1] when all of the trains were diverted to Carlisle London Road. [2]
The double line from Parton becomes single opposite the station signal box, which still bears the original station name Whitehaven Bransty; it then splits into two: one runs into platform one (a bay used by most terminating services from Carlisle) and the other runs into platform two, which is the through line to Sellafield, Millom and Barrow.