Oxenholme Lake District railway station
Oxenholme Lake District  | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Oxenholme |
| Local authority | District of South Lakeland |
| Coordinates | 54°18′18″N 2°43′19″W / 54.305°N 2.722°WCoordinates: 54°18′18″N 2°43′19″W / 54.305°N 2.722°W |
| Grid reference | SD531901 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | OXN |
| Managed by | Virgin Trains |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| DfT category | D |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2010/11 |
 0.408 million |
| 2011/12 |
0.436 million |
| 2012/13 |
 0.421 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.436 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.489 million |
| - Interchange | 0.245 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Lancaster and Carlisle Railway[1] |
| Pre-grouping | London and North Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| July 1847 | Opened as Kendal Junction[1] |
| c. 1860 | Renamed Oxenholme[1] |
| 1988 | Renamed Oxenholme The Lake District[1] |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Oxenholme Lake District from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
| UK Railways portal | |
Oxenholme Lake District railway station (often shortened to Oxenholme) is a railway station in Oxenholme, near Kendal, in Cumbria, England. The station is situated on the West Coast Main Line and is also the start of the Windermere Branch Line to Windermere. Platforms 1 and 2 are on the electrified main line, whilst platform 3 for the Windermere branch is not electrified at present and cannot be used as a terminus for main line trains that are powered by the overhead lines. The station serves as a main line connection point for Kendal, and is managed by Virgin Trains.[2]
Oxenholme has the distinction of being the only village station currently served by express trains on the West Coast Main Line, with all the other stations on this route serving either towns or cities.
Services
Most Virgin Trains services from London to Glasgow or Edinburgh call here to provide connections with the Windermere branch. There is normally a train at least every two hours to London and every hour to Edinburgh or Glasgow. TransPennine Express services between Manchester Airport and Glasgow/Edinburgh also serve the station; as well as Northern services to and from Windermere. Most Windermere services start here, but some occasionally run through to Lancaster, Preston and Manchester Airport.
Notable incidents
On 10 February 1965 fugitive John Middleton shot two policemen while hiding in the waiting room. Carlisle policemen George Russell and Alex Archibald were shot with Russell dying in hospital a few hours later.[3]
On 27 May 2006 the station was the scene of a murder when a 19-year-old man was stabbed aboard a Glasgow-Paignton train as it was coming into the station. A 22-year-old man was subsequently jailed for 21 years for the murder in November 2006.[4]
The Grayrigg rail crash happened on 23 February 2007 when a Virgin Pendolino train derailed after it had just left Oxenholme Lake District railway station. The crash left 1 person dead, and 22 others injured.[5]
In fiction
Oxenholme station appears in the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books by Arthur Ransome as Strickland Junction.[6] In Pigeon Post Roger releases a homing pigeon there.
References
- 1 2 3 4 Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
- ↑ National Rail Enquiries (2 December 2007). "Station Facilities: Oxenholme Lake District (OXN)". National Rail Enquiries. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
- ↑ Deborah Kuiper (28 December 2007). "Hero PC dies". Hexham Courant. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
- ↑ "Life sentence for train murder of student". The Guardian (Guardian News and Media Limited). 11 October 2006. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
- ↑ "How Cumbria rail crash unfolded". BBC News. 24 February 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
- ↑ Christina Hardyment Arthur Ransome and Capt. Flint's Trunk, Jonathan Cape 1984
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| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Lancaster | Virgin Trains West Coast Main Line |
Penrith North Lakes or Carlisle | ||
| Lancaster | TransPennine Express TransPennine North West |
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| Terminus | Northern Windermere Branch Line |
Kendal | ||
| Lancaster |
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