RAILSCOT | Ulverston and Lancaster Railway

Ulverston and Lancaster Railway

Introduction

This line is open. It was related to the Furness Railway which it extended east over sizeable viaducts to Lancaster.

Dates

/ /1952	Ulverston and Lancaster Railway Cark signal box opened. An LMS style box.
17/01/1998	Ulverston and Lancaster Railway Cark signal box closed (demolished 24th-25th).
18/07/2011	Ulverston and Lancaster Railway Kent Viaduct (Arnside Viaduct) re-opened after £10.7M rebuilding.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

Ulverston

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156447, heading for Carlisle via the Cumbrian Coast, crosses the Ulverston Canal as it slows to call at Ulverston station on 9th January 2023. This ...
Mark Bartlett 09/01/2023

The impressive station building at Ulverston, seen from the approach road in March 2018. ...
John McIntyre 20/03/2018

A TPE Class 185 being operated by Northern departs from Ulverston with a service to Barrow-in-Furness on 20 March 2018. ...
John McIntyre 20/03/2018

The station approach at Ulverston with the fine station building on the left along with impressive clock tower. ...
John McIntyre 20/03/2018

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Ulverston [2nd]

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Plumpton Junction

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See also
Windermere Lakeside Branch (Furness Railway)
Bardsea Branch (Furness Railway)

View west past Plumpton Junction signal box towards Ulverston in July 1987. Hoad Monument stands on Hoad Hill in the right background. ...
Ian Dinmore /07/1987

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Leven Junction

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Windermere Lakeside Branch (Furness Railway)

Leven Viaduct [Cumbria]

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195126, working Barrow to Manchester Airport, crosses the Leven Estuary at high tide on 9th January 2023. At low tide there would be just a small ...
Mark Bartlett 09/01/2023

The Leven Viaduct is just as impressive as the Kent Viaduct at Arnside but not quite so accessible for lineside photography. 37402 heads the morning ...
Mark Bartlett 13/03/2018

On a sunny spring evening a TransPennine 185 unit crosses the long viaduct over the Leven Estuary. The service is heading for Barrow-in-Furness, next ...
Mark Bartlett 10/03/2014

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Cark

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Funny sounding name for a station, although the village is very pleasant. The original name was Cark-In-Cartmel, but these days plain Cark, on the ...
Gordon Steel 21/10/2021

37402 arrives at Cark (and Cartmel) with the 1004 Preston to Barrow in Furness service on 6th October 2015. Station signs just say Cark but train ...
Roger Geach 06/10/2015

195116, on a Northern service from Barrow to Manchester Airport, pulls away from Cark on 6th July 2022. Situated on a sharp curve, the platform has ...
Mark Bartlett 06/07/2022

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Kents Bank

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Hard to believe this is a public footpath. It is part of a very pleasant coastal walk between Kents Bank and Grange-over-Sands stations. 195107 passes ...
Mark Bartlett 07/08/2023

Glimpsed from the elevated lineside footpath, 195107 accelerates away from the stop at Kents Bank heading for Grange-over-Sands with a Manchester ...
Mark Bartlett 24/10/2020

Rural scene at Kents Bank as 156484 pulls away from the station on 18th January 2020 heading for Carlisle via the Cumbrian Coast line. ...
Mark Bartlett 18/01/2020

37401 'Mary Queen of Scots,' in large logo livery, runs along the sea embankment at Kents Bank with the 1004hrs Preston to Barrow-in-Furness service ...
Tony Jenkinson 18/08/2017

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Grange-over-Sands

This fine station is open.
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Viewed from the promenade gardens at Grange-over-Sands, 68002 'Intrepid' leads a single nuclear flask load from Sellafield, bound for Heysham Power ...
Mark Bartlett 07/08/2023

156421 runs along the Furness coast between Grange-over-Sands and Kents Bank on a gloomy 24th October 2020. Arnside Knott can be seen on the other ...
Mark Bartlett 24/10/2020

195105, running between Grange and Arnside with a Barrow to Manchester Airport service, is alongside the Kent Estuary on 10th April 2021. The Kent ...
Mark Bartlett 10/04/2021

156496, working from Lancaster to Carlisle via the Cumbrian Coast, passes the old goods shed at Grange as it slows to call at the station on 10th ...
Mark Bartlett 10/04/2021

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Kent Viaduct

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A DMU about to come off the Kent Viaduct at Arnside in the autumn of 1983, having almost cleared the last of the 50 spans of the 1857 structure. The ...
John Furnevel 07/10/1983

Two DRS Class 37s bring an evening Sellafield to Crewe train, comprising five nuclear flasks, across Arnside's viaduct over the Kent estuary on 19 ...
Mark Bartlett 19/06/2013

A southbound DMU crossing the River Kent estuary in the north east corner of Morecambe Bay in October 1983. View is west from The Promenade at ...
John Furnevel 07/10/1983

Redecking and refurbishment of Arnside viaduct underway on 7th April with two rail mounted cranes busy supporting the engineering work. The ...
Mark Bartlett 07/04/2011

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Arnside

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Hincaster Branch (Furness Railway)

Not the 'GBXIV' railtour, but the ECS from GBXIV (Day 5 of 9) making the short journey from Grange-over-Sands, where the passengers were overnighting, ...
Mark Bartlett 26/04/2022

Middlebarrow Quarry, between Arnside and Silverdale, was operational until around 2000 and would have continued but planning permission for further ...
Mark Bartlett 26/04/2022

Signalbox with a view - Arnside on the edge of the Kent estuary, between the station and the viaduct over the river. The location could be described ...
John McIntyre 26/01/2018

45690 Leander approaches the Kent Viaduct and Arnside with a Cumbrian Coast Express returning from Carlisle to Carnforth on 24th March 2018. ...
Mark Bartlett 24/03/2018

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Silverdale

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A single car Class 153 arrives at Silverdale with a service to Lancaster on 30 July 2011. ...
John McIntyre 30/07/2011

A Northern 156 on a Lancaster to Barrow service drifts past the reed beds and ponds of the RSPB reserve at Leighton Moss, near to Silverdale station. ...
Mark Bartlett 04/04/2017

A pair of Class 153 single units cross a low bridge near Silverdale with a Barrow-in-Furness to Lancaster service on 12th May 2016. The watercourse in ...
Mark Bartlett 12/05/2016

Neville Hill based Class 158s are now regulars on Barrow-in-Furness services from the May 2018 timetable. 158844 calls at Silverdale on its way to ...
Mark Bartlett 02/11/2018

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Cote Stones Bridge

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Carnforth Iron Works Tramway

Carnforth Bottom End Sidings

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The GBXIV tour started from Grange-over-Sands on 27th April heading for Chester and later Cardiff. Although Grange is only a few miles from Carnforth ...
Mark Bartlett 27/04/2022

The launch of the CAF Civity trains into Northern passenger service has been further delayed but driver training is taking place now on the ...
Mark Bartlett 31/05/2019

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Carnforth [F and M R]

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Carnforth Furness and Midland Junction

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Furness and Midland Joint 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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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

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

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

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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