Brampton (Cumbria) is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between and via . The station, situated east of Carlisle, serves the hamlet of

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and nearby

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City of Carlisle The City of Carlisle ( , ) is a local government district of Cumbria, England, with the status of a city and non-metropolitan district. It is named after its largest settlement, Carlisle, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns ...

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, England. It is owned by

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and managed by

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History

The

Newcastle and Carlisle Railway The Newcastle & Carlisle Railway (N&CR) was an English railway company formed in 1825 that built a line from Newcastle upon Tyne on Britain's east coast, to Carlisle, on the west coast. The railway began operating mineral trains in 1834 between ...

was formed in 1829, and was opened in stages. The station was opened in July 1836, following the opening of the

between Greenhead and Carlisle London Road. Upon opening, the station was called ''Milton'', or possibly, ''Milton for Brampton''. According to Quick (2022), the station has since been renamed several times. Nowadays, the station is commonly suffixed as Brampton (Cumbria), in order to distinguish it from the station of the same name in Suffolk. Brampton operated as a junction station from opening in 1836, linking with a short branch line, the

Brampton Railway The Brampton Railway was a mineral railway built in 1798 to bring coal from workings on Tindale Fell to staiths at Brampton. It was a development of short sections of earlier wooden railways. When the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway was opened i ...

, known locally as ''The Dandy''. The line, which was initially horse-drawn, ran into the town, terminating at Brampton Town. This short branch line was taken over by the North Eastern Railway in 1912, with the track relaid and locomotive operated services resuming from August 1913, with a break from 1917 to 1920. The line was closed in 1923, with most of the former route now serving as a public footpath. The station was also the junction of another railway serving the local collieries owned by the

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. Known as Lord Carlisle's Railway, this ran to a junction with the Alston Line at Lambley. This mineral railway closed in March 1953. The first Station Master at Brampton was

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, who introduced cardboard tickets and later developed the ticket dating machine. The station was host to a

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from 1935 to 1939 – one of 119 vehicles converted by the

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between 1933 and 1938. Brampton was reduced to an unstaffed halt in 1967, along with most of the other stations on the line that escaped the

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. The former station buildings were subsequently demolished in stages during the 1970s and 1980s.

Facilities

The station has two platforms, both of which have a ticket machine (which accepts card or

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only), seating, waiting shelter, next train audio and visual displays and an emergency help point. There is step-free access to both platforms, however the Carlisle-bound platform is not fully accessible from the station's car park. Both platforms are also linked by a pre-grouping metal footbridge, similar to those at

Haltwhistle Haltwhistle is a market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, east of Brampton. It had a population of 3,811 at the 2011 Census. Stone-built houses are a feature of Haltwhistle. It is one of two settlements in Great Britain which c ...

and

Wetheral Wetheral is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in Cumbria, England. At the 2001 census, the population of the Wetheral Ward was 4,039, The civil parish of Wetheral is slightly larger, with a population of 5,203. being counted as 4,541 ...

. There is a small car park at the station. Brampton (Cumbria) is part of the Northern Trains

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network, meaning that a valid ticket or promise to pay notice is required prior to boarding the train.

Services

As of the December 2021 timetable change, there are ten trains per day (eleven on Saturday and nine on Sunday) heading west towards

Carlisle Carlisle ( , ; from xcb, Caer Luel) is a city that lies within the Northern England, Northern English county of Cumbria, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, Scottish border at the confluence of the rivers River Eden, Cumbria, Eden, River C ...

. Heading east towards

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via , there are eleven trains per day (ten on Saturday and eight on Sunday). Most trains extend to or via . All services are operated by

. Rolling stock used: Class 156 ''Super Sprinter'' and Class 158 ''Express Sprinter''

References

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External links

* {{Railway stations served by Northern Trains Railway stations in Cumbria DfT Category F2 stations Former North Eastern Railway (UK) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1836 Northern franchise railway stations Brampton, Carlisle