Heritage railway stations · North East England
Appleby railway station
Appleby railway station in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Appleby railway station is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Appleby is a railway station on the Settle and Carlisle Line, which runs between Carlisle and Leeds via Settle. The station, situated 30 miles 60 chains (49.5 km) south-east of Carlisle, serves the market town of Appleby-in-Westmorland in Cumbria, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. The station was formerly known as Appleby West, with the older Appleby East station located nearby on the Eden Valley Railway. The buildings of Appleby East still survive.
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Background
History
Junction Diagram showing (right) railways in the vicinity of Appleby. The present station is shown as MIDLAND STA]] The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders. Opened by the Midland Railway at the same time as the line itself in May 1876, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed to the London Midland Region of British Railways upon nationalisation in 1948. Following the withdrawal of local stopping trains in May 1970 it was one of only two stations on the Settle-Carlisle line to remain open, Settle being the other, When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 54.5803, -2.4866
Sources
- wikidata: Q2169384 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Appleby railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Appleby railway station?
- Appleby railway station is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.5803°, -2.4866°.
- Who owns Appleby railway station?
- Appleby railway station is owned by Northern Trains.