Windermere Lakeside Branch (Furness Railway)

Introduction

This line is closed for through traffic. The section between Ulverston and Haverthwaite is closed and lifted. The section between Windermere Lakeside and Haverthwaite is now the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway - a preserved railway.






Dates

  /  /1859Windermere Lakeside Branch (Furness Railway)
Opened from Ulverston to Windermere Lakeside.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Plumpton Junction to Lakeside

Plumpton Junction to Lakeside [FR].

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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Austerity 0-6-0ST 'Cumbria' (Hunslet 3794 of 1950) makes a spirited start from Haverthwaite with a train for Lakeside in 1981. ...
Bill Roberton //1981
Bagnall saddle tank 2996 'Victor' from 1951 on shed at Haverthwaite. ...
Martin MacGuire 10/04/2016
Hunslet saddle tank 3698 from 1950 with smoke box door open for cleaning in Haverthwaite shed. ...
Martin MacGuire 10/04/2016
Fairbairn tank 42085 lies boilerless in Haverthwaite shed whilst undergoing maintenance. ...
Martin MacGuire 10/04/2016
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Fairburn 2-6-4T 42085 nears Newby Bridge on the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway in 2006.
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Bill Roberton /07/2006
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This item in the 13th July 1923 edition of the Fleetwood Chronicle, Fylde News and Advertiser was the explanation for the photograph of the Windermere ...
Rev Ron Greenall Collection 08/07/1923
Garstang historian Anthony Coppin was recently asked to go through the collection of historic photos amassed by the late Rev. Ron Greenall and found ...
Rev Ron Greenall Collection 08/07/1923
'MV Tern' sweeps into the pier at Lakeside, at the south end of Windermere, on 1st October 2006. Built by Forrest & Son, Wivenhoe, 1891 as a steam ...
Colin Miller 01/10/2006
Fairburn 2-6-4T 42073 on the banks of the River Leven, Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway. A Peter Van Campenhout photographers' charter taken from ...
Stephen Willetts 24/03/2022
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Leven Junction to Greenwood Junction

The Leven Junction to Greenwood Junction curve completed a triangular junction allowing trains from the east access to the Lakeside branch.