RAILSCOT | Tebay

Tebay

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Tebay (1852-1968)

Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway.

Description

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.

For the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway this was an intermediary station opening in 1852 serving a small town. With the opening of the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway in 1861 it became a junction station.

It grew to have two locomotive sheds, a trainshed over the branch platform and exchange sidings.

The branch closed completely in 1962 and the station in 1968.

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map

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Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/ /1952	South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway Tebay to Kirkby Stephen closed to passengers. Diverted (and tour) passenger trains still use the route. Passenger trains continue to use the Eden Valley Railway from Penrith to Kirkby Stephen and continue to Barnard Castle.

News items

21/02/2009	Tebay victims remembered [The Visitor]
01/03/2007	Appeal of rail deaths pair begins [BBC News]
01/03/2007	Tebay rail death appeal bid fails [BBC News]
17/03/2006	Second man guilty in Tebay case [BBC News]
16/03/2006	Man guilty over Tebay rail deaths [BBC News]
24/08/2004	Warning over runaway rail wagons [BBC News]
15/02/2004	Accident at Tebay