Appleby railway station
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, Eden in Cumbria. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
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| Location | Appleby-in-Westmorland, Eden England | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 54°34′49″N 2°29′12″W / 54.5804100°N 2.4865360°W | ||||||||||
| Grid reference | NY686206 | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Network Rail | ||||||||||
| Managed by | Northern Trains | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Station code | APP | ||||||||||
| Classification | DfT category E | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Original company | Midland Railway | ||||||||||
| Pre-grouping | Midland Railway | ||||||||||
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway British Rail (London Midland Region) | ||||||||||
| Key dates | |||||||||||
| 1 May 1876 | Opened as Appleby | ||||||||||
| 1 September 1952 | Renamed Appleby West | ||||||||||
| 6 May 1968 | Renamed Appleby | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2018/19 | 57,526 | ||||||||||
| 2019/20 | 60,310 | ||||||||||
| 2020/21 | 11,232 | ||||||||||
| 2021/22 | 47,476 | ||||||||||
| 2022/23 | 52,674 | ||||||||||
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Listed Building – Grade II | |||||||||||
| Feature | Original Midland Railway station building | ||||||||||
| Designated | 14 May 1990 | ||||||||||
| Reference no. | 1311476[1] | ||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |||||||||||
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.
History edit
The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.[2] 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 on nationalisation in 1948. It was one of only two stations on the Settle-Carlisle line to remain open (Settle being the other) following the withdrawal of local stopping trains in May 1970.
When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the privatisation of British Rail.
The line through the station is often used as a diversionary route for the West Coast Main Line for both passenger and freight trains. A pre-nationalisation milepost on the southbound platform marks the station's location 277+1⁄4 miles (446.2 km) miles from London (St Pancras) on the Midland Railway route via Leicester, Derby, Sheffield and Leeds.
Stationmasters edit
- E. Williamson 1876 - 1877[3]
- R. Kirkham 1877 - 1879[3]
- J.G. Sefton 1879 - 1880[3]
- W. Scott 1880[3] - 1886[4]
- W. Foster 1886 - 1889[4]
- Thomas Moss 1889 - 1892[4] (formerly station master at Armathwaite, afterwards station master at Kirkby Stephen)
- William George Nuttall 1892[4] - 1924[5] (formerly station master at Kirkby Stephen)
- James Roadley 1924[6] - 1930 (formerly station master at Bentham)
- Richard W. Powell 1931[7] - 1936 (formerly station master at Lazonby, also station master at Ormside and Long Marton)
- Edward H. Garner 1936[8] - 1943 (formerly station master of Spring Vale, Darwen, afterwards station master at Mansfield)
- A. Fisher from 1943[9] (formerly station master at Embsay and Bolton Abbey)
Facilities edit
The main brick-built station building with booking office and waiting room is located on the northbound platform. This is the original building of 1876. A smaller brick-built waiting room, also of 1876, is located on the southbound platform. A period wrought iron lattice footbridge links the two platforms. Step-free access to both is also available (via the road underbridge & ramps to the southbound platform, direct from the station entrance for northbound travellers).[10] The booking office is open for 9 hours, six days per week (not Sundays) - tickets can be purchased from a ticket vending machine when the office is closed. Train running times are available via telephone and timetable posters, with digital information screens also in the process of being commissioned here (and at other stations on the line).
To the north are a number of engineers sidings (which once formed the connection to the Eden Valley branch to Warcop, Kirkby Stephen East and Barnard Castle) and an active signal box (which was repaired and refurbished in the autumn of 2019 to fix issues with rotten timbers and box foundations).
The main station building is Grade II listed;[1] the waiting room on the northbound platform and the station's footbridge are separately Grade II listed. The footbridge was moved to Appleby West from Mansfield Station in 1901.[11]
Services edit
Northern Trains Route 7 |
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Bentham Line and Settle and Carlisle Line |
There is generally a service every two hours daily northbound to Carlisle and southbound to Leeds[12] - eight each way in total since the May 2018 timetable change, a modest improvement on the former schedule of seven northbound & six southbound trains on weekdays, plus an extra SX early morning departure to Kirkby Stephen only and an extra morning departure for Leeds on Saturdays that applied prior to May 2011.
Six services each way call on Sundays (including one service to and from Nottingham introduced at the December 2012 timetable change, a second from Nottingham and returning to Sheffield was added in December 2018 but withdrawn in May 2019). The summer "DalesRail" service from Blackpool via Preston that formerly stopped here is not running in 2023. Northern hope to restore the service at a later date.
Accidents and incidents edit
- Well-known railway photographer and enthusiast Bishop Eric Treacy died at Appleby railway station on 13 May 1978 after suffering a heart attack whilst waiting to photograph Evening Star, which was due to pass through the station on a rail tour. A plaque located on the down platform commemorates the spot.[13]
- Services had been disrupted from 28 January 2016, due to a landslip at Eden Brows (north of Armathwaite) which destabilised the embankment on the eastern side of the railway, where it passes through the Eden Gorge. An emergency timetable was put into operation, with trains from the south terminating or starting at Appleby, and buses running between Appleby and Carlisle.[14] Since 27 June 2016 some rail services were restored further north to Armathwaite, with bus links to and from Carlisle, Penrith, Appleby and Armathwaite continuing to supplement the train service.[15] Repair works were due to continue until the end of March 2017.[16] These were completed on schedule, with the line reopening through to Carlisle on 31 March 2017.
Steam Specials edit
There is a water tank with water crane at the south end of platform 2 which is used to supply steam locomotives which stop with southbound trains during special excursions on the Settle and Carlisle line.
Gallery edit
- The watering crane stood at the end of platform 2 waiting to water the next steam engine.
- 6201 Princess Elizabeth at Appleby about to stop to take on water.
- 46233 Duchess of Sutherland parked up opposite the water tank and crane while working a southbound railtour.
- 45596 Bahamas stopped in platform taking on water while working "The Bahamas Renaissance II" railtour north to Carlisle on Feb 16th 2019.
- 46115 Scots Guardsman taking on water from the crane while working a southbound "Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express" on Feb 8th 2020.
See also edit
Notes edit
References edit
- ^ a b Historic England. "Appleby Station, Main Building (1311476)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
- ^ "Notes by the Way". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 1 November 1884. Retrieved 12 July 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ a b c d "1871-1879 Coaching". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 739. 1871. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- ^ a b c d "1881-1898 Coaching". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 43. 1881. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- ^ "Retirement of Mr. W.G. Nuttall". Penrith Observer. England. 2 September 1924. Retrieved 13 March 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Personal". Penrith Observer. England. 9 September 1924. Retrieved 13 March 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Personal". Penrith Observer. England. 31 March 1931. Retrieved 13 March 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Personal". Penrith Observer. England. 19 May 1936. Retrieved 13 March 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "New Appleby Stationmaster". Penrith Observer. England. 11 May 1943. Retrieved 13 March 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Appleby station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 5 December 2016
- ^ Appleby Station Co-Curate; Retrieved 1 October 2018
- ^ GB National Rail Timetable May 2023 Edition, Table 35 (Network Rail)
- ^ The Settle and Carlisle line ISBN 978-1-85895-263-5
- ^ "Latest Network Rail landslip disruption closes the Settle-Carlisle line". Rail.co.uk. 26 February 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- ^ "Trains run Leeds to/from Armathwaite". The Settle - Carlisle Railway. 26 September 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- ^ "Landslip-hit Settle-to-Carlisle line section shut until 2017"BBC News; Retrieved 7 July 2016
Sources edit
- Butt, R. V. J. (October 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
External links edit
- Media related to Appleby (Cumbria) railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Train times and station information for Appleby railway station from National Rail
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Kirkby Stephen | Northern Trains Settle and Carlisle Line | Langwathby | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Ormside | Midland Railway Settle and Carlisle Line | Long Marton | ||