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Network Rail Route 23 (North West Rural)
Network Rail's (NR) strategic route 23 encompassed mainly the English rural railway lines of Lancashire and Cumbria. It excluded the part of the West Coast Main Line (WCML) that bisects the counties. It included the following lines: * the Settle and Carlisle line from Skipton to Carlisle * the Cumbrian Coast line from Carnforth to Carlisle via Sellafield and Workington * the Roses line from Preston to Burnley Manchester Road/Hall Royd Junction, and the branch to Burnley Central and Colne * the Blackburn to Hellifield line via Clitheroe, part of the Ribble Valley Line * the Hellifield (Settle Junction) to Carnforth line via Wennington * the Hellifield to Skipton line * the Ormskirk to Farrington Curve Junction (near Preston) line * the Oxenholme to Windermere branch of the WCML * various freight-only branches and chords, including in the Carlisle area Some of these routes and/or services are designated as Community Rail Partnerships (CRP): * East Lancashire CRP (Preston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Network Rail
Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain. Network Rail is an "arm's length" public body of the Department for Transport with no shareholders, which reinvests its income in the railways. Network Rail's main customers are the private train operating companies (TOCs), responsible for passenger transport, and freight operating companies (FOCs), who provide train services on the infrastructure that the company owns and maintains. Since 1 September 2014, Network Rail has been classified as a "public sector body". To cope with fast-increasing passenger numbers, () Network Rail has been undertaking a £38 billion programme of upgrades to the network, including Crossrail, electrification of lines and upgrading Thameslink. In May 2021, the Government announced its intent to replace Network Rail in 2023 with a ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Lancashire Line
The East Lancashire line is a railway line in the Lancashire region of England, which runs between Preston and Colne, through Blackburn, Accrington, Burnley (Barracks and Central) and Nelson. The line formerly ran onto Skipton but this closed in 1970. It is operated by Northern. Services on this line stop at every station on the line, although Pleasington, Hapton and Burnley Barracks are now request stops only. It was designated by the Department for Transport as a community rail line in November 2006. History The line was built by the Blackburn and Preston Railway and the Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington and Colne Extension Railway. Both companies were absorbed by the East Lancashire Railway on 3 August 1846 and 21 July 1845 respectively. The East Lancashire Railway was, in turn, absorbed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway on 13 May 1859. The line connected end-on at Colne with the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway's line to and Bradford. This link closed in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windermere Railway Station
Windermere railway station serves Windermere in Cumbria, England. It is just south of the A591, about 25 min walk or a short bus ride from the lake. The station is located behind a branch of the Booths supermarket chain, which occupies the site of the original station building, in front of the Lakeland store. It is the terminus of the former Kendal and Windermere Railway single-track Windermere Branch Line, with a single platform (much longer than the trains usually seen there today) serving one terminal track. The station is owned by Network Rail and is operated by Northern Trains who provide all passenger train services. The Terrace, a row of cottages, built for railway executives in 1849, is said to have been designed by the architect Augustus Pugin. One of the fireplaces is a copy of one of his in the Palace of Westminster. The selection of the town of Birthwaite as the location of the station serving the lake was what led to it taking the name Windermere, even though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxenholme Railway Station
Oxenholme Lake District railway station in Oxenholme, near Kendal, Cumbria, England, is on the West Coast Main Line and at the start of the Windermere Branch Line to Windermere. The station, which serves as a main line connection point for Kendal and Windermere, is managed by Avanti West Coast and owned by Network Rail. History The station was constructed as part of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (which is now a section on the West Coast Main Line from London to Glasgow). Initially the railway was earmarked to go via Kendal. However, a tunnel would have had to have been built north of the town to accommodate this route. As it was deemed too expensive an option, a line running east of Kendal was adopted. The line between Lancaster and Oxenholme opened in September 1846. Trains from Lancaster passed through Oxenholme to a temporary terminus at . This ended when the line to Carlisle was completed in December 1847. With the decision to avoid Kendal, the Kendal and Winderm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ormskirk Railway Station
Ormskirk railway station in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, is a cross-platform interchange between Merseyrail services from Liverpool Central and Northern Trains services from Preston on the Ormskirk branch line, northeast of Liverpool. The station building and three arch road bridge are both Grade II listed structures. History The station was built by the East Lancashire Railway's Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Junction section, and opened on 2 April 1849. From 13 May 1859, the station was owned by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. From 1 January 1923 the station was owned by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. British Railways nationalised all railways on 1 January 1948 and the station became part of the London Midland Region. A branch line to via was opened by the ELR in March 1858 shortly before it was absorbed by the L&YR – this left the main line to Preston just to the north of the station. The line from Liverpool was subsequently electrified in 1913, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wennington Railway Station
Wennington is a railway station on the Bentham Line, which runs between and via . The station, situated east of Lancaster, serves the village of Wennington in Lancashire. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. History Originally opened by the "Little" North Western Railway in 1849 on their line between and , the station was rebuilt and expanded in 1865 prior to the opening of the Furness and Midland Joint Railway from in 1867. Thereafter it became a busy junction, with many passenger trains calling to detach through carriages for Carnforth from the main Morecambe portion if heading west or attaching them if heading east - a bay platform was provided at the east end of the station for this purpose, along with several sidings on the opposite side of the line for locomotive and carriage stabling (all since removed, along with the extra platform line). A number of local services (mainly from the Carnforth line) also originated or terminated there. Much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clitheroe Railway Station
Clitheroe railway station serves the town of Clitheroe in Lancashire, England. The station is the northern terminus of the Ribble Valley Line / Clitheroe Line operated by Northern Trains and is north of Blackburn. The station forms part of Clitheroe Interchange, which has won a number of awards. History The original station opened on 22 June 1850. It was replaced in 1893–4 by another approximately to the north. The station closed to normal services on 10 September 1962 (that is, before the Beeching cuts) but remained in use for special services until 7 February 1971. The special services resumed on 14 May 1990, and the station was fully reopened on 29 May 1994, when passenger services began again from Blackburn. The line from here continues northwards towards , but this section is normally used only by freight and engineering trains on weekdays; passenger services are limited to a pair of Sundays only ''Dalesrail'' charter trains and occasional railtours. The line also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellifield Railway Station
Hellifield is a railway station on the Bentham Line, which runs between and via . The station, situated north-west of Leeds, serves the village of Hellifield, Craven in North Yorkshire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. History The first Hellifield railway station was opened by the "Little" North Western Railway in 1849. It was a modest structure, similar to those at Gargrave and Long Preston and sited to the south of the present one. A much larger replacement (the current station) was built by the Midland Railway to the designs of architect Charles Trubshaw and opened on 1 June 1880, immediately to the north of the junction of the line from and the newly completed Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway route from via . It soon became a busy junction (as it was now located on the Midland Railway's main line from London to Scotland), with trains going to: *Clitheroe * Skipton *Leeds *Blackburn * Settle * Carlisle * Manchester Victoria * Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackburn Railway Station
Blackburn railway station serves the town of Blackburn in Lancashire, England. It is east of Preston and is managed and served by Northern Trains. History There has been a station on the current site since 1846, when the Blackburn and Preston Railway (a constituent company of the East Lancashire Railway) was opened - the contract to build the station having been awarded in November 1845. This route was extended eastwards to in March 1848 and subsequently through to Burnley and by February 1849. Meanwhile, the ''Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe & West Yorkshire Railway'' had built a line through to from the town by 1848, but were refused permission to use the ELR station and had to open their own station at Bolton Road, a short distance south of the junction between the two. The Blackburn company subsequently extended their line northwards along the Ribble Valley to in 1851, but it was not until both railways had amalgamated with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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