Kirkby Stephen railway station
Kirkby Stephen  | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Kirkby Stephen |
| Local authority | Eden |
| Grid reference | NY762066 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | KSW |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2010/11 |
 30,352 |
| 2011/12 |
32,076 |
| 2012/13 |
 31,262 |
| 2013/14 |
30,138 |
| 2014/15 |
29,768 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kirkby Stephen from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
| UK Railways portal | |
Kirkby Stephen railway station serves the town of Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria, England. It is operated by Northern, which provides all passenger train services.
The station is nearly a mile from the town at Midland Hill and was formerly known as Kirkby Stephen West because of the older Kirkby Stephen or Kirkby Stephen East station that was situated in the town and was on the North Eastern Railway's Stainmore and Eden Valley lines. It closed (along with all the other stations apart from Settle and Appleby) in May 1970 but reopened by British Rail in July 1986.
The station is leased by the Settle and Carlisle Railway Trust, which comprehensively restored it in 2009.[1] The main buildings now incorporate a caretaker's flat, offices and the Midland Room, opened in July 2011,[2] which includes a cafe and exhibition of items related to the Settle and Carlisle railway.
Services
The station is served by seven trains in each direction on weekdays and Saturdays - northbound to Carlisle and southbound to Leeds.[3] A new early morning Monday to Friday service southbound began in May 2011. The first weekday northbound service now runs through from Leeds rather than arriving from Carlisle and returning there after a reversal as before. All services northbound are however currently (March 2016) terminating at Appleby, as the line beyond is closed whilst major repair works are carried out on a landslip at Eden Brows (near Armathwaite). A replacement bus service is in operation over this section until further notice.[4]
There are four departures each way on Sundays throughout the year. DalesRail services between Blackpool North/Preston and Carlisle also call at the station on summer Sundays.
References
- ↑ S&C Trust website.
- ↑ Johnston, Howard (10 August 2011). "Regional News". Rail (Peterborough). p. 24.
- ↑ Northern Rail Timetable 7: Leeds to Carlisle; Leeds to Morecambe & Heysham Port, 8 December 2013 – 17 May 2014 Northern Rail; Retrieved 14 January 2014
- ↑ "Eden Brows landslip repair plan agreed"Friends of the Settle Carlisle Line article 9 March 2016; Retrieved 13 March 2016
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kirkby Stephen railway station. |
- Train times and station information for Kirkby Stephen railway station from National Rail
- Buses from the station
- Buses to the station
- Station facilities at Kirkby Stephen
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Garsdale | Northern Settle-Carlisle Line |
Appleby | ||
Coordinates: 54°27′18″N 2°22′08″W / 54.455°N 2.369°W
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