Bare Lane railway station
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| Location | |
| Place | Bare |
| Local authority | Lancaster |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BAR |
| Managed by | Northern Rail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage | |
| 2004/05 * | 116,597 |
| 2005/06 * |  117,576 |
| 2006/07 * |  117,264 |
| 2007/08 * | 126,706 |
| 2008/09 * | 132,946 |
| 2009/10 * | 131,752 |
| History | |
| Opened 1864 | |
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |
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| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bare Lane from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year. | |
Bare Lane railway station is a railway station that serves the village of Bare, which is a suburb of Morecambe in Lancashire. It is located on the Morecambe Branch Line from Lancaster to Heysham Port.
A level crossing with the public highway known as Bare Lane exists immediately to the west of the station controlled by the adjacent Bare Lane signal box, a fringe cabin to the Preston Power Area. This box is due to close in February 2013, when the signalling equipment is due to be renewed by Network Rail and control of the crossing switched to CCTV and transferred to Preston 'box.[1]
The old station building on the platform is now a private dwelling. It was auctioned to the public, and was featured on the BBC programme Homes Under the Hammer, a show about buildings which are auctioned to the public and redeveloped.
[edit] Services
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The station is served by Northern Rail local services, which operate as a regular Lancaster-Morecambe shuttle.
There are also a few longer-distance services (currently four per day all week) from Morecambe to Skipton and Leeds via the Leeds to Morecambe Line. In addition, for many years the last train each weekday evening was a Transpennine Express service from Windermere, which diverts from its route to Barrow-in-Furness. This service called at Lancaster, Bare Lane and Morecambe, before reversing, calling at Bare Lane again, then rejoining the West Coast Main Line and continuing via Carnforth thus avoiding the 1m 7ch section of the WCML between Hest Bank South Junction and Hest Bank North Junction. This was the only scheduled service to use the original 1864 curve towards Hest Bank and as such functions as a Parliamentary train to avoid the need for formal closure proceedings for this short stretch of line.
From December 2008, the daily TransPennine Express service runs in the early morning (calling at 05.49 and again at 06.02 in the opposite direction) and runs to Windermere from Barrow rather than the other way around as it did previously, although it still runs directly from here to Carnforth. The mid-afternoon Morecambe to Leeds service also runs direct to Carnforth (except Saturdays) due to a lack of suitable timetable paths via Lancaster following the introduction of Virgin Trains new high-frequency WCML timetable.
[edit] References
- ^ NR Bare Lane box closure proposals & TOC responses NR website; Retrieved 2011-05-26
[edit] External links
- Train times and station information for Bare Lane railway station from National Rail
