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Furness and Midland Joint Railway

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Wennington Junction

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North Western Railway

142024 leaves Wennington heading for Lancaster on 4th November 2019. The recess where the signalbox once stood is filling with vegetation and it is ...
Mark Bartlett 04/11/2019

150205, on a Leeds to Morecambe service, leaves Wennington and heads for Melling tunnel and Carnforth. This view was taken from the nearby bridge over ...
Mark Bartlett 04/02/2010

Hurried Pacer substitution? Heading for Morecambe, 150275 was still displaying Manchester Victoria on its rear destination blind as it left ...
Mark Bartlett 27/04/2011

On May 1st 1976, Hardwicke and Flying Scotsman spent much of the day on display at Settle before working a second S&C centenary special. ...
Bill Jamieson 01/05/1976

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Melling

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Northern 144016, on the daily Heysham Port to Leeds service, enters the 1230yd Melling Tunnel on 3rd October 2015. Melling station, a short distance ...
Mark Bartlett 03/10/2015

Grab shot, from a passing Pacer, of the closed station at Melling, just to the west of Wennington. Melling closed in 1952 but remains in residential ...
Mark Bartlett 25/04/2019

Unlike the other closed stations between Carnforth and Wennington, Melling is rather inaccesible but in winter it can just be seen from the A683 that ...
Mark Bartlett 22/01/2012

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Arkholme

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Northern has recently committed to retiring fifty five Pacers before the end of 2019. On 3rd December 142092 rounds the tight curve at Arkholme with a ...
Mark Bartlett 03/12/2019

3-car 144019 passing the old station at Arkholme with a Lancaster to Leeds service on 3rd December 2019. On the jointed track the Pacer could be heard ...
Mark Bartlett 03/12/2019

A Leeds to Morecambe service hurries past the closed station at Arkholme, now a private residence, on 18th April 2016. See image 19610 Hopefully ...
Mark Bartlett 18/04/2016

Former station at Arkholme, closed in September 1960, and now extended as a very nice country home with the bonus of trains still passing through. ...
Mark Bartlett 14/04/2008

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Borwick

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GBRf 66737 Lesia hauls the return leg of Pathfinder's Yorkshire Dales Explorer Salisbury to Leeds excursion on 14th May 2016. The train ...
Mark Bartlett 14/05/2016

Track level view of the old station at Borwick from a passing Leeds to Morecambe Pacer on 25th April 2019. All three intermediate closed stations ...
Mark Bartlett 25/04/2019

The Heysham to Leeds daily Boat Train heads east through beautiful North Lancashire countryside at Borwick between Carnforth and Wennington on ...
Mark Bartlett 30/07/2013

Hauling its first train in over fifty years Merchant Navy 35018 British India Line undertook a loaded test run from Carnforth on 6th July 2017. ...
Mark Bartlett 06/07/2017

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This viaduct is between Carnforth (to the west) and Borwick on the line from Carnforth to Wennington and Hellifield. It is a 145 yards long masonry arch crossing the River Keer. Just to the east a second singe span girder bridge crosses the Lancaster Canal.
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Glimpsed from the towpath of the Lancaster Canal, 158909 accelerates away from Carnforth towards the viaduct at Capernwray with a Morecambe to Leeds ...
Mark Bartlett 22/11/2020

During the Covid timetable trains on the Bentham line have been reduced. They also only shuttle between Lancaster/Morecambe and Skipton and do ...
Mark Bartlett 03/04/2021

150201 on the Capernwray Viaduct while working between Morecambe and Skipton on 7th November 2020. This graceful bridge crosses the River Keer, just ...
Mark Bartlett 07/11/2020

Just to the north of where the Bentham Line crosses the River Keer and the Lancaster Canal lies Wegber Quarry. These days it houses a caravan park but ...
Mark Bartlett 03/04/2021

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Carnforth East Junction

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Carnforth Furness and Midland Junction

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Ulverston and Lancaster Railway

68003 Astute is on the rear of a three coach Class 68 driver training special that has just operated over the Cumbrian Coast line and will ...
Mark Bartlett 12/01/2018

The signal box panel at Carnforth F&M Junction, photographed in July 1985. ...
Ian Dinmore 12/07/1985

37409 accelerates the 1004 Preston to Barrow away from Carnforth F&M Junction and past the engineers sidings as it heads towards the bridge at Warton ...
Mark Bartlett 18/04/2016

This bracket signal on the up approach (from the Barrow direction) to Carnforth F&M Junction was looking in dire need of a repaint on 2nd October ...
Bill Jamieson 02/10/1998

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Books

A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The Lake Counties v. 14 (Regional Railway History)

Furness and Midland Joint Railway

Introduction

Locations along the line

Wennington Junction

Melling

Arkholme

Borwick

Capernwray Viaduct

Carnforth East Junction

Carnforth Furness and Midland Junction

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