Contact the news and picture editor. |
Due to extreme weather conditions, a train disruption will affect services departing from Oxenholme Lake District station.
(Permalink) Oxenholme West Coast Main Line |
Avanti West Coast helps Cumbrian community restore its Post Office two years after it was deprived of its only service.
(Permalink) Avanti West Coast Oxenholme Post Office Oxenholme: A full house at Oxenholme on 2 February 2013 with (from right to left) in platform 1 a Pendolino for Euston, in platform 2 a double Super Voyager for Glasgow and hiding under the roof in platform 3 is ... |
More than £9.5m is being invested to extend platforms at five railway stations in Cumbria to make way for longer trains.
(Permalink) Dalton Kents Bank Oxenholme Platform extension Staveley Ulverston Ulverston: A Manchester Airport service, on time at 12 noon, with 185129 leaves Ulverston station with its restored building and canopies. The cars on the right are in a dealership that occupies the old Furness ... |
One of the UKs worst performing train operators has launched an investigation after passengers had to climb over a 7ft (2.1 metre) spiked fence to leave a station when staff locked up early. The Avanti West Coast train from London was 100 minutes late arriving into Oxenholme on Tuesday night, by which time staff had locked the station and left for the night, passengers said. Some resorted to climbing the fence in scenes described by the local MP, Tim Farron, as an unacceptable farce.
(Permalink) Avanti West Coast Network Rail Oxenholme |
Train station ticket offices across south Cumbria are at risk of closure, according to a rail union.
Rail union RMT revealed imminent plans by the rail industry for mass closures of ticket offices across the network, with over 1,000 ticket offices at impending risk of closure including at Oxenholme, Windermere, Appleby, Grange, Barrow and Ulverston. But a spokesman from the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train operators, said no decisions had been made over the future of the countrys ticket offices. (Permalink) Appleby Barrow Grange Oxenholme RMT Ticket offices Ulverston Windermere |
Rail services are operating again on the Lakes Line following a minor landslip in the Burneside area earlier this morning.
All rail services between Oxenholme and Windermere were suspended for several hours, but the line has now fully re-opened and trains are running - although some delays can be expected until further notice. (Permalink) Burneside Oxenholme Windermere |