Cark & Cartmel railway station
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Cark and Cartmel | |
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General information | |
Location | South Lakeland |
Coordinates | 54°10′41″N 2°58′23″W / 54.178°N 2.973°W |
Managed by | Northern |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | CAK |
History | |
Opened | 1857 |
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Cark and Cartmel railway station (often just Cark railway station) is a railway station that serves the villages of Allithwaite, Cark, Flookburgh and Cartmel in Cumbria, England. It is located on the Furness Line from Barrow-in-Furness to Lancaster. The station is owned by Network Rail and is operated by Northern who provide all passenger train services.
History
The station is architecturally interesting, with a main building (see image) erected by the Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway (U&LR) in 1857. The station opened on 1 September 1857 as Cark-in-Cartmell. The current name was adopted in 1906. The Furness Railway took over the U&LR on 21 January 1862 and was absorbed into the London Midland & Scottish Railway on 1 January 1923.
The station had a particular importance, as it serves Holker Hall, the home of Lord Cavendish of Furness formerly belonging to the Dukes of Devonshire. Special waiting rooms were provided for the dukes and their guests. The actual building retains many original features and is now a private residence. It extends to approximately one acre of gardens and woodland.
Facilities
The station is unstaffed but has been provided with ticket machines to allow intending travellers to buy tickets prior to travel. There are shelters and digital information screens on each platform, along with a long-line P.A system for train running information provision. The platforms are linked by a footbridge, but step-free access is also available on each side for disabled travellers.[1]
Service
The station is on the Furness line linking Lancaster and Barrow (though some services extend south to Preston or north east to Carlisle).
- The station receives a roughly hourly service to Barrow operated by Northern and calling at:
- Four of these services continue from Barrow on to Carlisle calling at:
- Askam, Kirkby-in-Furness, Foxfield, Green Road, Millom, Silecroft, Bootle, Ravenglass, Drigg, Seascale, Sellafield, Braystones, Nethertown, St Bees, Corkickle, Whitehaven, Parton, Harrington, Workington, Flimby, Maryport, Aspatria, Wigton, Dalston and Carlisle. Two evening trains terminate at Millom and one afternoon train at Sellafield (weekdays only).
- There is also a roughly hourly service towards Lancaster, calling at:
- Kents Bank, Grange over Sands, Arnside, Silverdale, Carnforth and Lancaster. Three services a day are extended to Preston, calling additionally at Preston only
A number of services continue through to Manchester Airport via Wigan North Western and Manchester Piccadilly - these were formerly operated by First TransPennine Express up until the end of the old Northern and TransPennine franchises on 31 March 2016.
Sundays see an hourly service each way (with some longer gaps).[2]
See also
Grange-over-Sands railway station
References
- ^ Cark and Cartmel Station Information National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 25 November 2016
- ^ Table 82 National Rail timetable, December 2019
External links
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- Train times and station information for Cark & Cartmel railway station from National Rail
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Following station | ||
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Northern Trains Furness Line | ||||
Ulverston | Northern Trains Barrow-in-Furness - Manchester Airport (Limited service) |
Kents Bank (limited service) | ||
Grange-Over-Sands |