Garstang and Knot End Railway

Introduction

This was a single track railway opened in 1870 between Garstang and Catterall, on the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway, and Pilling. It did not reach Knott End itself.

The line was later extended to Knott End by the Knott End Railway in 1908 which also took over the earlier line.






Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This station on the main line was the junction for the line to Knott End. The two lines ran north for some distance before the branch ran to Garstang Town.
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See also
Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
Recently refurbished Voyagers 221114 and 115 approach the bridge over the River Calder at Garstang, working from Euston to Glasgow (via Birmingham), ...
Mark Bartlett 27/02/2021
Glimpsed through bare trees, over a mill pond smooth canal, 88010 heads north through Garstang and Catterall with a Daventry to Mossend intermodal ...
Mark Bartlett 26/11/2020
In the run up to Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool, TPE 397011 has had special vinyls applied to its cabs. Seen at Garstang and Catterall on 1st May ...
Mark Bartlett 01/05/2023
A very clean looking 66175 heads south at Garstang with a Mossend to Daventry service on 14th April 2020. The previous month the locomotive had been ...
Mark Bartlett 14/04/2020
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This was an island platform station. It was located in Garstang, unlike the older Garstang and Catterall station which was further east. Access to the island platform was by lattice footbridge.
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Garstang in August 2012. At the bottom of the picture the A6 still climbs to cross the route of the Garstang and Knot End Light Railway. The course of ...
Mike Burke 28/08/2012
A section of Garstang and Knott End trackbed has been taken over by gardens just to the west of Garstang Town, but one enterprising householder bought ...
Mark Bartlett 21/03/2020
The G&KER cutting near the WCML is gradually reverting to nature See image 18535 from 2008. A public footpath crosses the cutting at right angles ...
Mark Bartlett 10/03/2019
View towards the main line junction on the old G&KER embankment at Garstang on 4th April 2020. The last goods train left Garstang Town in 1965 so it ...
Mark Bartlett 04/04/2020
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This two platform station had a loop and was located on the single track Knott End line. To the immediate west was a level crossing, the loop completing on the west side. There was a goods yard at the east end, accessed by a reversing spur from the down loop.
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The Lancaster Canal celebrated the bi-centenary of its opening to Kendal in 2019 and there were a number of commemorative events, such as the ...
Mark Bartlett 12/04/2020
Black 5 45449 waits for the gates at Nateby Crossing Lane to be secured before continuing with a trip working to Pilling in the early 1960s. 1963 saw ...
Knott End Collection //
One of the few discernible stretches of trackbed on the old Knott End line is at Nateby but it has been turned into a farm access road as seen here. ...
Mark Bartlett 21/01/2012
These tank traps, presumably around 75 years old, sit alongside the Lancaster Canal near Nateby Hall. The upper picture shows the point where the trap ...
Mark Bartlett 13/02/2016
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One of the last surviving G&KER buildings, the crossing keeper's cottage at Cogie Hill, was recently damaged in a road accident and needs substantial ...
Mark Bartlett 29/03/2022
A 2020 view looking west towards Pilling at the site of Cogie Hill Crossing and Halt, together with an extract from the 1912 25inch OS Map. The line ...
Mark Bartlett 10/08/2020
The extended former crossing keeper's cottage at Cogie Hill, looking towards Garstang, in January 2020. Trains crossed the road at an oblique angle so ...
Mark Bartlett 30/01/2020
Cogie Hill Halt (SD 446468) Cogie Hill Crossing Cottage looking towards Nateby and Garstang. ...
Mark Bartlett 16/02/2008
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There was never much infrastructure at Cockerham Cross, just a low sleeper platform that would have been on the right on this side of the crossing. ...
Mark Bartlett 30/01/2020
Cockerham Cross was a wayside halt on the Garstang & Knott End Railway between Nateby and Pilling. The 1915 timetable shows trains stopping on request ...
Mark Bartlett 21/01/2012
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There are several old crossing keepers cottages that mark the route of the old G&KER, including this one at Garstang Road on the outskirts of Pilling. ...
Mark Bartlett 17/02/2019
Garstang Road Halt (SD 423476) on the outskirts of Pilling village was a late opening in 1923 and closed in 1930. The crossing keepers cottage is ...
Mark Bartlett 16/02/2008
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The 1870 timetable of the newly opened Garstang and Knot End Railway. These limited services were operated by a single locomotive 'Hebe' (61114) ...
Knott End Collection //1870
An old platelayers hut still stands on the trackbed immediately to the east of the Pilling station site. It is in good condition and appears to have ...
Knott End Collection 25/11/2017
This Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST (1885/1955) has been cosmetically restored and is displayed at the entrance to the caravan site that is built on the ...
Mark Bartlett 29/01/2015
Pilling Station (SD 413478) opened in 1870 only to close in 1872. It opened again in 1875 as the Knott End railway although Pilling would be the ...
Mark Bartlett 16/02/2008
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