Dalston railway station is a railway station serving the village of

Dalston Dalston () is an area of East London, in the London Borough of Hackney. It is northeast of Charing Cross. Dalston began as a hamlet on either side of Dalston Lane, and as the area urbanised the term also came to apply to surrounding areas includ ...

near Carlisle in

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, England. It is on the

Cumbrian Coast Line The Cumbrian Coast line is a rail route in North West England, running from Carlisle railway station, Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness via Workington and Whitehaven. The line forms part of Network Rail route NW 4033, which continues (as the Furnes ...

, which runs between and . It is owned by

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and managed by

Northern Trains Northern Trains, branded as Northern, (legally Northern Trains Limited) is a publicly owned train operating company in England. It is owned by DfT OLR Holdings for the Department for Transport (DfT), after the previous operator Arriva Rail N ...

History

It was opened in 1843 by the

Maryport and Carlisle Railway The Maryport & Carlisle Railway (M&CR) was an English railway company formed in 1836 which built and operated a small but eventually highly profitable railway to connect Maryport and Carlisle in Cumbria, England. There were many small collieries ...

, with trains running through to from the beginning of the following year. It became an unstaffed halt in 1967, but has kept its period stone waiting shelter on the northbound platform, lattice footbridge and main buildings on the opposite side (the latter are in private commercial use). It is also one of the last active freight locations on this route - an oil terminal on the eastern side of the line just south of the station receives regular trainloads of fuel oil from

Grangemouth Refinery Grangemouth Refinery is a mature oil refinery complex located on the Firth of Forth in Grangemouth, Scotland, currently operated by Petroineos. It is the only operating crude oil refinery in Scotland (following the cessation in 2014 of Bitumen ...

in Scotland. Two crossovers operated from ground frames located at the station are used for shunting purposes when trains require access to the terminal sidings.

Facilities

Along with most other stations on the line, it is unstaffed, meaning that passengers need to purchase tickets on the train. Step-free access is available to both platforms and train running information is provided by telephone and timetable posters. Digital information screens and a ticket machine are also being installed by Northern in 2019 as part of a rolling station improvement plan in the area.

Services

Following the May 2021 timetable change, the station is served by an hourly service between and , with some trains continuing to . During the evening, the station is served by an hourly service between Carlisle and Whitehaven. All services are operated by

. Rolling stock used: Class 153 Super ''Sprinter'', Class 156 ''Super Sprinter'' and Class 158 ''Express Sprinter'' In May 2018, Northern introduced a Sunday service between and Barrow-in-Furness, the first Sunday service to operate south of Whitehaven for over 40 years.

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* * Railway stations in Cumbria DfT Category F2 stations Former Maryport and Carlisle Railway stations Northern franchise railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1843 Dalston, Cumbria {{NorthWestEngland-railstation-stub