Appleby railway station

This article is about the railway station in Cumbria, England. For other similarly named railway stations see Appleby railway station (disambiguation).

Appleby

Location
Place	Appleby-in-Westmorland
Local authority	Eden
Grid reference	NY686206
Operations
Station code	APP
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	62,511
2005/06	66,449
2006/07	61,886
2007/08	61,781
2008/09	65,852
2009/10	61,984
2010/11	70,808
2011/12	68,884
2012/13	60,992
2013/14	62,600
- Interchange	2
History
1 May 1876	Station opens as Appleby
1 September 1952	Renamed Appleby West
6 May 1968	Renamed Appleby
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Appleby from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Appleby railway station is a railway station which serves the town of Appleby-in-Westmorland in Cumbria, England. It is operated by Northern Rail who provide all passenger train services. The station is 30 ¹⁄₂ miles (49.1 km) south east of Carlisle on the Settle-Carlisle Line.

The station was formerly called Appleby West, the older Appleby East station was nearby on the Eden Valley Railway. The buildings of Appleby East still survive.

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 9F Evening star, which was due to pass through the station on a rail tour. A plaque located on the down platform commemorates the spot.^[1]

History

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.

A 1903 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (right) railways in the vicinity of Appleby. Present station is shown as MIDLAND STA.

When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the privatisation of British Rail.

Mile post at Appleby

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 from London (St Pancras) on the Midland Railway route via Leicester, Derby, Sheffield and Leeds.

Facilities

The water tank and tower in use to supply LMS 8P 4-6-2 "Duchess of Sutherland" on a southbound rail tour

The main brick-built station building with booking office and waiting room is located on the northbound platform. A smaller brick-built waiting room is located on the southbound platform. A period footbridge links the two platforms.

There is a water tank with water tower at the south end of the platform which is used to supply steam locomotives which stop with southbound trains during special excursions on the Settle and Carlisle line.

Services

There is generally a service every two hours daily northbound to Carlisle and southbound to Leeds^[2] - seven each way in total since the May 2011 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.

Four services each way call on Sundays (including one afternoon express service to Nottingham introduced at the December 2012 timetable change), increasing to five in the summer months (the extra trains being the DalesRail service to/from Preston & Blackpool North).

References

↑ The Settle and Carlisle line ISBN 978-1-85895-263-5
↑ GB National Rail Timetable 2013-14, Table 36 (Network Rail)

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.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.