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Introduction

This line is open. It became part of the London and North Western Railway. The line famously crosses Shap Summit.






Dates

  /  /    Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Takes over the Lancaster Canal, and thus the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway. Services to the south from Lancaster Penny Lane diverted to Lancaster Castle.
  /  /1844Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Line authorised.
12/07/1844Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Cutting of first sod.
  /  /1846Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Line opened. The line does not have a Carlisle terminus. In Carlisle the line joins the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway at London Road Junction [Carlisle]. The N&C's passenger terminus, Carlisle London Road, could be reached by reversal.
01/09/1847Caledonian Railway Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Carlisle Citadel opened. The short Maryport and Carlisle Railway branch to Carlisle Crown Street is crossed, on the level, by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway on its approach to the new Carlisle Citadel. This approach had crossed the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway on the level too, just to the south east.
17/03/1849Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway gains possession of Carlisle Crown Street and demolishes it.
01/06/1851Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Carlisle Crown Street's old tracks attached to Carlisle Citadel by permission of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway and Caledonian Railway.
10/05/1857Caledonian Railway Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
The Caledonian Railway and Lancaster and Carlisle Railway make the 'Citadel Station Agreement' for Carlisle Citadel.
10/09/1859Lancaster and Carlisle Railway London and North Western Railway
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway leased by the London and North Western Railway.
  /  /1861Caledonian Railway Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Agreement to enlarge Carlisle Citadel station, owned by the Caledonian Railway and Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. A joint committee is to be created which will include the Glasgow and South Western Railway, Maryport and Carlisle Railway and North British Railway.
09/06/1862Eden Valley Railway
Opened from Kirkby Stephen (South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway) to Clifton [Moor] (just south of Penrith on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, the junction giving access to the south). Engineer: Thomas Bouch.
  /  /1863Eden Valley Railway
Opening of a curve from Weatherriggs Junction to meet the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway at Eden Valley Junction, and opening of Clifton [Moor] station on the curve.
  /  /1868Settle and Carlisle Line (Midland Railway)
An agreement with the London and North Western Railway is reached over use of the Ingleton Branch (London and North Western Railway) and Lancaster and Carlisle Railway by the Midland Railway. The route would involve the North Western Railway. The Midland Railway tries to abandon the Settle and Carlisle Line (Midland Railway). The North British Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway block the abandonment.
08/07/1877Lancaster and Carlisle Railway London and North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway opens a new southern approach to Carlisle Citadel, London and North Western Railway No 1 Approach Line.
  /  /1878Lancaster and Carlisle Railway London and North Western Railway
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway vested into the London and North Western Railway.
  /  /1879Lancaster and Carlisle Railway London and North Western Railway
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway fully amalgamated with the London and North Western Railway.
  /  /1888Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Caledonian Railway
Involved in the railway races to Edinburgh in July and August!
  /  /1970Caledonian Railway Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Lancaster and Preston JunctionRailway Preston and Wigan Railway Wigan Branch Railway Warrington and Newton Railway Grand Junction Railway
Weaver Junction (south of Warrington) to Glasgow electrification authorised.
06/05/1974Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
Preston and Wigan Railway
Electric services begin.
01/03/2008Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
In high wind five empty containers are blown from a Freightliner Tilbury - Coatbridge Freightliner Terminal train at Hardendale (south of Shap).

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.




Lancaster Old Junction

This was the junction between the approach to the original Lancaster [1st] terminus of 1840 and the extension north by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway of 1846 which left the old terminus on a short branch.
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Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
Freightliner's 90048 and 90015, heading from Basford Hall to Coatbridge, run slowly down the bank at Lancaster on 14th June 2023. They were under a ...
Mark Bartlett 14/06/2023
After some regular runs by 35018, 46115 'Scots Guardsman' put in an appearance on 'The Dalesman' on 23rd August 2022 and made a spirited departure ...
Mark Bartlett 23/08/2022
With the heat from its exhaust shimmering, 66616 digs in to the climb of the bank out of Lancaster, passing Lancaster Old Junction with the daily ...
Mark Bartlett 01/06/2022
Despite its interchangeable identities (see image 77792) Jubilee 45699 was making some glorious chimney music as it dug in to the bank out of ...
Mark Bartlett 10/08/2021
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Lancaster

This is a five platform station.
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Glasson Dock Branch (London and North Western Railway)
70810 hauls the Mountsorrel to Carlisle NY stone train northwards at Lancaster on 17 September 2021. This is normally routed from Farington Jct via ...
John McIntyre 17/09/2021
CAF 195110 arriving at Lancaster with the late running 11.49 Northern service to Manchester Airport on 21st October 2021. ...
Gordon Steel 21/10/2021
DB 66124 hauls the Seaforth to Mossend container service through Lancaster on 14 September 2022. ...
John McIntyre 14/09/2022
68005 takes the Up Through line at Lancaster with a Mossend to Daventry intermodal on 5th April 2023. ...
Mark Bartlett 05/04/2023
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Morecambe South Junction

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Morecambe Branch (London and North Western Railway)
221104 and 221117 form 9M54, an Avanti Edinburgh to Euston service, passing Morecambe South Junction on a bright 7th December 2020. ...
Mark Bartlett 07/12/2020
If the branch train is held on the curve at Morecambe South Junction, it means something is passing on the main line. On 26th January 2023 it was ...
Mark Bartlett 26/01/2023
Pacers were used on Lancaster to Morecambe services from their introduction until the majority were withdrawn from Northern service. In its last year ...
Mark Bartlett 30/04/2019
Barley Cop Lane at Lancaster was flooded under the low WCML bridge as 390045 crossed on a service to Edinburgh on 9th February 2022. ...
Mark Bartlett 09/02/2022
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Hest Bank Junction

Date of change of name assumed.
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Morecambe Branch (London and North Western Railway)





Hest Bank

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A Class 144 Pacer, on a Morecambe to Leeds (via Lancaster) service, approaches Hest Bank level crossing in June 2013. The single-track chord from Bare ...
John McIntyre 15/06/2013
37405 powers north through Hest Bank on 8th March 2018 with the daily Preston to Barrow-in-Furness service. ...
Tony Jenkinson 08/03/2018
First Trans Pennine Express service from Manchester Airport to Glasgow Central with 350402 approaches Hest Bank on the afternoon of 12 September 2015. ...
John McIntyre 12/09/2015
37403 'Isle of Mull' runs north through Hest Bank with the 1004hrs Preston to Barrow-in-Furness on 31st May 2017. ...
Tony Jenkinson 31/05/2017
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Hest Bank Watertroughs

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Bolton-le-Sands

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ROG 37884 'Cepheus' approaches the site of closed Bolton-le-Sands station, and the operational level crossing, on 9th May 2023. The Type 3 was working ...
Mark Bartlett 09/05/2023
An Avanti Pendolino runs south between Bolton-le-Sands and Hest Bank with a Christmas Eve Glasgow to Euston service. This view taken from the towpath ...
Mark Bartlett 24/12/2020
47760 accelerates hard through Bolton-le-Sands with the slightly delayed ECS from Carnforth to Lancaster for a Santa Special on 9th December ...
Mark Bartlett 09/12/2018
A Pendolino, heading for Glasgow, passes through open Lancashire countryside on a low embankment as it approaches the level crossing at ...
Mark Bartlett 28/01/2019
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Carnforth

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66614 rumbles through Carnforth with a rake of graffiti covered wagons, heading from Hardendale Quarry at Shap back to Tunstead in Derbyshire, on 7th ...
Mark Bartlett 07/08/2023
66606 and box wagons, running from Hardendale to Guide Bridge, pass through the disused main line platforms at Carnforth on 26th January 2023. A ...
Mark Bartlett 26/01/2023
West Coast 47772 draws 37706 into Carnforth station, prior to acting as insurance for the latter on a test run to Hellifield and back on 12th December ...
Mark Bartlett 12/12/2022
Ex LMS Jubilee 45699 'Galatea' sets off from the loop at Carnforth with the RTC Winter 'Cumbrian Mountain Express' to Carlisle on 26 February 2022. ...
John McIntyre 26/02/2022
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Burton and Holme

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397003, working from Glasgow to Preston, is crosses the Cumbria (originally Westmorland) and Lancashire border passing Burton and Holme on 26th June ...
Mark Bartlett 02/07/2021
A Daventry to Grangemouth intermodal service passes to the north of Burton and Holme on 12 September 2015 with 66110 creating quite a heat haze ...
John McIntyre 12/09/2015
DB 66097 heads north through Burton and Holme with a Daventry to Mossend intermodal on 22nd August 2020. ...
Mark Bartlett 22/08/2020
An Avanti Pendolino runs south at Burton and Holme on 5th September 2020, seen from the elevated towpath of the old Lancaster Canal. Old maps show a ...
Mark Bartlett 05/09/2020
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Milnthorpe

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Gatebeck Tramway
CAF 195128 runs down the long straight towards the overbridge at Elmsfield with a through train from Windermere to Preston on 27th September 2020. ...
Mark Bartlett 27/09/2020
Unbranded 390154, on a Sunday Glasgow to Euston service, heads south at Elmsfield near Milnthorpe on 27th September 2020. ...
Mark Bartlett 27/09/2020
On a surprisingly warm and sunny 27th September 2020, 195122 heads north at Elmsfield with a service from Preston for Windermere. At Oxenholme it had ...
Mark Bartlett 27/09/2020
DB operated Network Rail engineers ballast train with 66080 is seen heading from Carlisle to Crewe to the south of Milnthorpe on 12 September 2015. ...
John McIntyre 12/09/2015
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Hincaster Junction

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Hincaster Branch (Furness Railway)
88002 'Prometheus' climbs towards Hincaster Junction with the northbound 'Tesco' on 27th April 2022. ...
Mark Bartlett 27/04/2022
60163 'Tornado', apparently standing in for the expected 46201 in between its own 'Aberdonian' turns 77565, climbs past Hincaster Junction on 24th ...
Mark Bartlett 24/07/2021
46115 'Scots Guardsman' powers the 'Cumbrian Mountain Express' up the gradient towards Oxenholme on 28th January 2023. Just behind the camera is the ...
Mark Bartlett 28/01/2023
390157 is climbing north towards Oxenholme passing through Hincaster on 28th November 2020. This rear car is directly over the top of the disused ...
Mark Bartlett 28/11/2020
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Oxenholme Lake District

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Kendal and Windermere Railway
390154 winds through the Westmorland hills on the climb to Oxenholme with a Euston Glasgow service on 27th April 2022. The Pendolino is approaching ...
Mark Bartlett 27/04/2022
D345 and D213 head north through Oxenholme with the 'Double Scotch' railtour from Crewe to Edinburgh on 13 November 2021. ...
John McIntyre 13/11/2021
LMS Stanier pacific 6201 'Princess Elizabeth' hauls the Carnforth to Carlisle leg of a Northern Belle railtour from York. The train is seen working ...
John McIntyre 29/05/2021
The Daventry to Mossend Tesco Express passes Oxenholme on 29 May 2021 with DRS 88001 providing the traction. ...
John McIntyre 29/05/2021
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Hay Fell Signal Box

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TPE 397002 rolls through Westmoreland and round the curve at Hay Fell with an Edinburgh to Manchester Airport service on 29th March 2023. Hay Fell ...
Mark Bartlett 29/03/2023
The TPE 802s make an occasional change from the procession of Pendolinos and TPE 397s that operate most passenger services north of Oxenholme. 802217 ...
Mark Bartlett 29/03/2023
68027 drops down towards Oxenholme, working a rail mounted crane and associated wagons from Carlisle to Crewe, on 29th March 2023. ...
Mark Bartlett 29/03/2023
390040 is heading for Glasgow as it winds through the Westmoreland hills above Oxenholme on 29th March 2023. Immediately in front of the train is the ...
Mark Bartlett 29/03/2023
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Docker Viaduct

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Southern Railway Merchant Navy Class Pacific 35018 'British India Line' heads 1C96 07:08 London Euston to Carlisle the &Cumbrian Mountain Express' ...
Stephen Willetts 06/08/2022
5Z56, the return leg of the loaded test run for 55009 'Alycidon', crosses the Docker Viaduct near Grayrigg on 29th March 2023. This was around two ...
Mark Bartlett 29/03/2023
DRS 66122 is in charge of a trainload of stone for Basford Hall, which it has just collected from the quarry at Shap Summit. The train is crossing the ...
Mark Bartlett 29/03/2023
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Grayrigg [1st]

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Grayrigg [2nd]

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390157 leans in to the reverse curves between Low Gill and Grayrigg loops on 23rd June 2020. It was around this time that the application of Avanti ...
Mark Bartlett 23/06/2020
88009 'Diana' leans into the curves between Grayrigg and Low Gill, hauling a Daventry to Mossend intermodal service, on 23rd June 2020. The signal ...
Mark Bartlett 23/06/2020
TPE 397003, Carlisle to Manchester Airport, comes off the Low Gill curves passing the M6 as it approaches the loops at Grayrigg on 29th March 2023. ...
Mark Bartlett 29/03/2023
66107, working light engine Carlisle to Crewe, negotiates the sweeping curve between Low Gill and Grayrigg on 23rd June 2020. There was a momentary ...
Mark Bartlett 23/06/2020
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Low Gill [1st]

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A long way from the Channel Tunnel - 92037 heading South with containers past an NR acess point on 23rd May. ...
Ken Strachan 23/05/2014
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Low Gill [2nd]

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Ingleton Branch (London and North Western Railway)





Dillicar Watertroughs

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A Euston to Glasgow Pendolino leans into the curve at Dillicar, as it enters the Lune Gorge on 23rd June 2020. This was before the Avanti liverying ...
Mark Bartlett 23/06/2020
High above the river, a TPE Class 397 EMU runs through the very scenic Lune Gorge at Dillicar with a service from Manchester Airport on 23rd June ...
Mark Bartlett 23/06/2020
Broadside view of DB 66065 as it threads the Lune Gorge at Dillicar on 23rd June 2020, hauling a Seaforth to Mossend intermodal service. The separated ...
Mark Bartlett 23/06/2020
Black 5 44669 will not require banking assistance at Tebay, as it makes good speed through the Lune valley with a short northbound freight. ...
Robin McGregor 01/07/1967
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Tebay

This was a sizeable junction station. The line remains open but the station is long gone, closing in 1968. Little remains of the station other than an open area.
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46100 'Royal Scot' attacks the gradient at Greenholme with 1Z20, the 05:50 Rugby to Carlisle 'The Lakelander' on 11 February 2023. Tebay village and ...
Stephen Willetts 11/02/2023
Tebay shed on a dull 28 November 1967 and Standard 4MT 4-6-0 No. 75026, with double chimney, is awaiting its next turn banking freight trains to Shap ...
Colin Kirkwood 28/11/1967
88003 'Genesis' appears to make light work of lifting the fully loaded Tesco train up the 1:75 out of Tebay, seen passing Greenholme, on 29th March ...
Mark Bartlett 29/03/2023
68005 'Defiant' has sole charge of a Mossend to Daventry container train that has just descended from Shap Summit, and is crossing the River Lune at ...
Mark Bartlett 29/03/2023
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Scout Green

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390039, easily climbing the Shap gradient, passes Scout Green on a Euston to Glasgow service on 13th August 2020. ...
Mark Bartlett 13/08/2020
Stanier Jubilee 45690 'Leander' works hard on the climb up Shap at Scout Green with a railtour to Carlisle on 21st January 2017. ...
John McIntyre 21/01/2017
A wild and wet morning on the fells, as Castle 4-6-0 7029 'Clun Castle' climbs past Scout Green with the 'Castle to Carlisle' railtour of 14th October ...
Robin McGregor 14/10/1967
55009 'Alycidon', on a loaded test run from Carnforth to Carlisle, howls past Scout Green as it heads towards Shap Summit on 29th March 2023. The ...
Mark Bartlett 29/03/2023
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Shap Summit

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Shortly after dawn on 1st July 1967, Crewe North Black 5 44761 was in full cry as it made brisk progress towards Shap summit with a southbound van ...
Robin McGregor 01/07/1967
Plenty of rainclouds over Shap on the morning of Monday 3rd July 1967, but a burst of sunlight caught Standard 9F 2-10-0 92125 as it climbed towards ...
Robin McGregor 03/07/1967
A Glasgow to Euston Pendolino crosses the bridge at Shap Wells as it drops down from the Summit on a sunny July evening in 2019. ...
Mark Bartlett 23/07/2019
Black 5 no 45041 takes a train north near Shap Wells in the 1960s. ...
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //
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Shap

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Black 5 44674 makes steady progress towards Shap from the north with a parcels train. The photograph was taken shortly after daybreak on 1st July ...
Robin McGregor 01/07/1967
The 1335 hrs Glasgow Central to London Euston rushes passed the site of Shap station on 8 July 2021. Although the station building on the downside ...
John McIntyre 08/07/2021
Stanier 8F 48464 leaves a fine trail of smoke and steam as it climbs towards Shap from the north, shortly after daybreak on 1st July1967.
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Robin McGregor 01/07/1967
A4 60009 'Union of South Africa' climbs Shap at Salterwath, with a northbound Cumbrian Mountain Express in February 2013. 'Number 9' is now ...
Stephen Willetts 16/02/2013
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Clifton and Lowther

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Eden Valley Railway
Euston bound 390121 speeds past the Eden Goods Loop at Clifton and Lowther on 23rd October 2015. The tracks are widening at this point because they ...
Mark Bartlett 23/10/2015
If a Standard 9F were to be seen today slogging along the northern slopes of Shap with a lengthy haul of low-sided wagons, one imagines that a long ...
Robin McGregor 30/06/1967
A Super Voyager heads north along the WCML towards Penrith. The train has just passed under the A6 road in Clifton village and is now crossing the M6 ...
Mark Bartlett 04/02/2013
The Entente Cordiale, a private charter from Carnforth to Spean Bridge, runs through Clifton and Lowther on 23rd October 2015. The train ...
Mark Bartlett 23/10/2015
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Eden Valley Junction

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Eden Valley Railway
A southbound DRS container train waits in the Eden Valley loop just
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John McIntyre 30/05/2011
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Eamont Bridge Junction

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Eden Valley Railway
An unidentified Brush Type 4 takes a northbound west coast main line express past the site of Eamont Bridge Junction on the approach to Penrith in ...
Colin Miller 25/09/1967
A northbound train speeds past Eamont Bridge Junction on the West Coast Main Line in September 1967 hauled by an EE Type 4 locomotive . ...
Colin Miller 25/09/1967
A northbound Brush Type 4 passes Eamont Bridge Junction in September 1967 with an Edinburgh/Glasgow train. ...
Colin Miller 25/09/1967
EE Type 4 no D335 heads north approaching Penrith at Eamont Bridge Junction in September 1967 hauling a partially-fitted mineral train.
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Colin Miller 25/09/1967
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Penrith

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Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway
350407 waits departure from Penrith North Lakes with a Glasgow Central to Manchester Airport service on 11th July 2019. ...
Alastair McLellan 11/07/2019
Woolly thinking on platform 2 at Penrith. I'm not convinced by the Cumbrian language on the gate in the background. ...
Ken Strachan 06/08/2023
The comunity garden on the down platform at Penrith in July 2019. ...
Alastair McLellan 11/07/2019
A TPE 350 EMU heads south over the M6 Motorway at Penrith with a Glasgow to Manchester Airport service on 20th October 2019. ...
Mark Bartlett 20/10/2019
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Kitchen Hill Signal Box

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Plumpton

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The light was fading and the rain falling as 66095 passed through Plumpton on 8th November 2022 working a Network Rail infrastructure train from ...
Mark Bartlett 08/11/2022
68016 'Vigilant' and 68006 'Pride of the North' power a Mossend to Daventry container train past the Up Loop at Plumpton on 8th November 2022. ...
Mark Bartlett 08/11/2022
A interesting coffee stop just off the M6, some 4 miles north of Penrith, is the station site at Plumpton. The station itself has long gone (closed ...
John Furnevel 25/06/2011
BR Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73099 with an up train passing Plumpton, north of Penrith, in the 1960s. See image 41265 ...
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //
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Calthwaite

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Southwaite

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The 'Winter Cumbrian Coast Express' heads northwards at Southwaite on 25 March 2017 with Royal Scot class no.46115 Scots Guardsman having ...
John McIntyre 25/03/2017
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Wreay

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The commemorative BR ticket read... A4 Preservation Society Tour - 'The Inaugural Run of Sir Nigel Gresley'.
No 4498 was photographed ...
Bruce McCartney 01/04/1967
The RCTS Rebuilt Scot Commemorative Rail Tour southbound from Carlisle on 13 February 1965 photographed running through Wreay cutting on its ...
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 13/02/1965
Black 5 4-6-0 no 44731 with a southbound freight on the WCML, thought to have been photographed just south of Wreay around 1965. The freight is ...
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1965
EE Type 4 with a southbound WCML service passing through Wreay cutting, south of Carlisle, in February 1965.
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Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 13/02/1965
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Brisco

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Upperby Bridge Junction

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Black 5 45285 leaves Carlisle behind as it approaches Upperby Bridge Junction with the summer Saturday 9.40 am Dundee - Blackpool in August 1967. ...
Robin McGregor 19/08/1967
Stanier 8F 48373 ventures on to the main line in the course of some shunting around Carlisle Upperby in December 1967. ...
Robin McGregor 20/12/1967
Black Five 45295 is not long out of Carlisle with the 11.05 SO Glasgow- Blackpool, but is having to ease off for adverse signals on the approach to ...
Robin McGregor 19/08/1967
Britannia 70024 'Vulcan' comes off the main line at Upperby Bridge Junction, as it nears Carlisle with a northbound freight, on 20th December 1967.
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Robin McGregor 20/12/1967
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Upperby Junction

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Goods Traffic Committee Link (London and North Western Railway)
Black 5 45437 makes a brisk getaway from Carlisle in February 1966, with a short milk train for the south. Milk traffic was of course eventually lost ...
Robin McGregor 21/02/1966
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Upperby Goods

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Carlisle Upperby Shed

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Rebuilt Patriot No 45526 'Morecambe and Heysham' is basking in the sunshine at Carlisle Upperby shed on 26 May 1964. In the background is the Stanier ...
Colin Kirkwood 26/05/1964
Extremely dirty 12A Carlisle Kingmoor based BR 9F 2-10-0 92009 is seen standing on 12B Carlisle Upperby Shed in June 1967. ...
David Pesterfield 10/06/1967
Britannia 7MT 4-6-2 70011 'Hotspur', nicely turned out at Carlisle Upperby, ready to make a good impression at the head of a late afternoon football ...
Robin McGregor 21/02/1966
The sun has caught push-pull fitted Ivatt 2MT 2-6-2T 41222 as it sits on the turntable in the Carlisle Upperby roundhouse on 29 May 1966. Although it ...
Colin Kirkwood 29/05/1966
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Carlisle Upperby Holding Sidings

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4MT 2-6-0 43121, believed to be at Carlisle Upperby taking over the Scottish Rambler No.6 (Day 2) special train to Alston during the Easter weekend in ...
David Murray-Smith 26/03/1967
Britannia 70032 'Tennyson' at Carlisle Upperby with the Scottish Rambler No.6 (Day 2) from Glasgow Central to Carlisle during Easter weekend 1967. The ...
David Murray-Smith 26/03/1967
Stanier 8F 2-8-0 48469 takes a ballast train past Carlisle Upperby on 19th August 1967. ...
Robin McGregor 19/08/1967
Ivatt Class 2MT 2-6-0 46437 runs past Carlisle Upperby in February 1963 with a local train, probably from the North Lakes. A Jinty shunts a ...
Robin McGregor 18/02/1963
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London Road Junction [Carlisle]

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Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
Looking west at London Road Junction. ...
Ewan Crawford //
Voyager meets Pendolino on the WCML just south of Carlisle station. Below are the goods lines and to the right is the route from London Road Jct into ...
John Furnevel 18/04/2007
Looking east towards London Road Junction, Carlisle, on 12 April 2006. The line from Upperby still comes in from the right just before the road ...
John Furnevel 12/04/2006
A wet Friday afternoon in July 1969 at London Road Junction, Carlisle, where the N&C and S&C lines leave the city. An eastbound freight arriving from ...
John Furnevel 04/07/1969
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Crown Street Goods

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This shot turned into something of a panorama of the southern approaches to Carlisle, as they stood in 1965, but I can't say it was planned as such. ...
Robin McGregor 06/08/1965
Upperby shed's 'Jinty' 0-6-0T no 47667 at Crown Street goods depot, Carlisle. The photograph is thought to have been taken on 6 April 1963. Crown ...
K A Gray 06/04/1963
Ivatt class 2MT 2-6-0 no 46455 brings a freight out of Crown Street goods depot, Carlisle, in July 1958 across a double track bridge spanning 3 sets ...
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 05/07/1958
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Carlisle

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Caledonian Railway
37409 'Lord Hinton' at Carlisle ahead of the 'Class 37 Farewell', organised by DRS on 19th January 2019 when loco hauled passenger services ceased on ...
Crinan Dunbar 19/01/2019
Departmental train (6K05) on its way from Kingmoor to Basford Hall passing through Carlisle on 5th October 2021. DRS 68016 'Fearless' was hauling a ...
Duncan Ross 05/10/2021
47703 'The Queen Mother' seen at Carlisle in October 1998. At the time the lady herself was still around and I am sure she was suitably flattered. ...
David Panton 16/10/1998
Its not every day you see a palindromic locomotive. 66066 runs light engine from Carlisle to Crewe through Citadel Station on 29th July 2021. ...
Ken Strachan 29/07/2021
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Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The Lake Counties v. 14 (Regional Railway History)
An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways

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