Cark and Cartmel railway station

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.

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]

Route 6: Cumbrian Coast Line and Windermere Line
Carlisle Dalston (Cumbria) Wigton Aspatria Maryport Flimby Workington Harrington Parton Whitehaven Corkickle St. Bees Nethertown Braystones Sellafield Seascale Drigg Ravenglass for Eskdale Bootle Silecroft Millom Green Road Foxfield Kirkby-in-Furness Askam Barrow-in-Furness Roose Dalton Ulverston Cark and Cartmel Kents Bank Grange-over-Sands Arnside Silverdale Carnforth Windermere Staveley Burneside Kendal Oxenholme Lake District Lancaster Preston Manchester Oxford Road Manchester Piccadilly Manchester Airport
Bootle, Braystones, Drigg, Flimby, Green Road, Kirkby-in-Furness, Nethertown, Parton and Silecroft are request stops.

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:

Ulverston, Dalton, Roose and Barrow-in-Furness.

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]

Grange-over-Sands railway station

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• Train times and station information for Cark and Cartmel railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Ulverston		Northern Trains Furness Line		Kents Bank
Ulverston		Northern Trains Barrow-in-Furness - Manchester Airport (Limited service)		Kents Bank (limited service)
				Grange-Over-Sands