Date: 26/01/2023

Dr Neil Hudson MP has called for action on reopening the Penrith to Keswick line, extending the Borders Railway through Longtown to Carlisle, and reopening Gilsland Station.

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Known in the past for its sulphurous spa waters, the village of Gilsland stands alongside Hadrians Wall, straddling the border between Northumberland and Cumbria. The station was first opened in 1836 as Rose Hill but became Gilsland in 1869. Passenger services were eventually withdrawn in 1967. The photograph, taken looking north across the Newcastle & Carlisle line in May 2006 from the car park of the Station Hotel, shows the former main waiting room on the left with the booking office and station masters house in the centre. Note the arched ticket window and the old platform drinking fountain still in place. See image [[37929]]
Location: Gilsland
Company: Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
06/05/2006 John Furnevel

View from the southbound Scottish Grand Tour about to pass through Longtown station on 4 January 1969. [Ref query 6622]
Location: Longtown
Company: Border Union Railway (North British Railway)
04/01/1969 D Walker Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney]

The Games Room of the Keswick Hotel, under the canopies of the old station, looked inviting on a cold wet November evening. There was a second similar canopied platform here (See image [[34066]]) but that has been lost to car parking. It is good that this building survived the 1972 closure and was later adopted by the hotel to which it has always been connected.
Location: Keswick
Company: Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway
30/11/2021 Mark Bartlett

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