Borwick railway station formerly served the village of

Borwick Borwick is a village and civil parish in the City of Lancaster district of Lancashire, England, about 8 miles north of Lancaster, on the Lancaster Canal. It is situated just south of the border with Cumbria. The parish of Borwick had a popula ...

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, England. It was located on the

Furness and Midland Joint Railway The Furness and Midland Joint Railway was a joint railway in England owned by the Furness Railway and the Midland Railway. Construction was agreed in 1862 for a line from Carnforth, on the Furness system, to Wennington, on the Midland Railway ...

line between

Carnforth Carnforth is a market town and civil parish in the City of Lancaster in Lancashire, England, situated at the north-east end of Morecambe Bay. The parish of Carnforth had a population of 5,560 in the 2011 census, an increase from the 5,350 reco ...

and Wennington, east of Carnforth Joint station.

History

The station was opened in June 1867, when passenger services began operating over the line. Whilst it was jointly owned by the two constituent companies, the station was run by the

Midland Railway The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844. The Midland was one of the largest railway companies in Britain in the early 20th century, and the largest employer in Derby, where it had its headquarters. It am ...

who also operated all the trains that served it (the

Furness Railway The Furness Railway (Furness) was a railway company operating in the Furness area of Lancashire in North West England. History Formation In the early 1840s, the owners of iron ore mines in the Furness district of Lancashire became interested i ...

was responsible for the upkeep of the permanent way and associated structures on the line). Facilities at the station were modest, with the main buildings on the northern (eastbound) platform and a shelter on the westbound side. It also had a signal box and small goods yard at its western end. Passenger services from the station initially ran to a temporary station at Carnforth next to the junction between the Joint line and the Furness line proper towards Barrow, but began using the main line station in 1880. The station is the second to be built, the original being built before the railway which, when it arrived, passed 50 yards to the south east. Along with its neighbours further east, the station was served mainly by local trains between Wennington and Carnforth - the 1912 passenger timetable listed six departures in each direction each weekday and this level of service was maintained for most of the station's life (although it did drop to as low as two per day during the First World War and again in the early 1940s). The station passed into the control of the

London, Midland and Scottish Railway The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSIt has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway's corporate image used LMS, and this is what is generally u ...

at the

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and then to

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in 1948. It was then closed by the

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on 12 September 1960 (along with neighbouring Arkholme) when the local service between Wennington and Carnforth ceased.

The site today

The old station house still exists to this day, having been converted into a private residence after closure. Portions of the old platforms also survive, albeit derelict and heavily overgrown but the rest of the station has been demolished. The route meanwhile is still operational as part of the

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Notes

References

* Binns, D. (1982), ''The Little North Western Railway'', Wyvern Publications, Skipton, . *

External links

RAILSCOT - Borwick Gallery

Sources

{{City of Lancaster Disused railway stations in Lancaster Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1867 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1960 Former Midland Railway stations Former Furness Railway stations