Clapham railway station

For the railway stations in London, see Clapham Junction railway station and Clapham High Street railway station. For the closed railway station in Australia, see Clapham railway station, Adelaide.
Clapham (North Yorkshire) National Rail

Eastbound platform
Location
Place Clapham
Local authority Craven
Coordinates 54°06′19″N 2°24′37″W / 54.105394°N 2.410208°WCoordinates: 54°06′19″N 2°24′37″W / 54.105394°N 2.410208°W
Grid reference SD732678
Operations
Station code CPY
Managed by Northern Rail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05   5,609
2005/06 Increase 5,652
2006/07 Decrease 4,954
2007/08 Increase 5,957
2008/09 Increase 6,738
2009/10 Decrease 6,720
2010/11 Increase 6,952
2011/12 Increase 7,390
2012/13 Increase 7,624
History
Key dates Opened 1849
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Clapham (North Yorkshire) from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Clapham railway station serves the village of Clapham in North Yorkshire, England. The station is 48 miles (77 km) north-west of Leeds on the Leeds to Morecambe Line towards Lancaster and Morecambe. It is managed by Northern Rail who provide all passenger train services.

The station (which is unstaffed) is situated just over a mile outside of Clapham.[1] Immediately to the east, the line crosses the River Wenning on a tall five-arch bridge.

The station was formerly known in the national timetable as Clapham (Yorkshire), to distinguish it from Clapham (London), until the latter was renamed Clapham High Street.

History

The station was opened by the "little" North Western Railway (NWR) on 30 July 1849 on their line from Skipton to Ingleton and became a junction the following year when the link along the Wenning Valley from Bentham was completed on 1 June 1850[2] to finish the route from Lancaster to Skipton.

The Ingleton route was subsequently extended northwards, as the Ingleton Branch Line, through Kirkby Lonsdale and Sedbergh to join the West Coast Main Line at Low Gill (near Tebay) by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (L&C) in 1861, but disagreements between the L&C's successor, the London and North Western Railway, and the Midland Railway (who had leased the NWR in 1859) over running rights and the subsequent construction of the Settle-Carlisle Line, meant that it never became the major Anglo-Scottish route that the NWR had originally intended.

The Ingleton Branch was closed to passenger traffic on 1 February 1954 and completely in July 1966,[3] although regular goods traffic had ended some months earlier. Lifting of the track followed in April 1967. A sharp curve (with a permanent 35 mph speed restriction) marks the site of the former junction, immediately west of the station.

The station ceased to handle goods traffic in 1968, when the remaining sidings were taken out of use & dismantled and the station signal box closed.

Services

Monday to Saturdays, five trains a day head from Clapham eastbound to Leeds and westbound to Lancaster and Morecambe. On Sundays there are now four trains each way all year, an improvement on the previous level of two each way all year plus a further two return workings in the summer months only.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Streetmap". Retrieved 28 August 2007.
  2. ↑ Binns, p. 9
  3. ↑ Marshall, p. 100

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Preceding station National Rail Following station
Giggleswick   Northern Rail
Leeds to Morecambe Line		   Bentham
Historical railways
Giggleswick
Line and station open		   Midland Railway
"Little" North Western Railway		   Bentham High
Line and station open
Disused railways
Giggleswick
Line and station open		   Midland Railway
"Little" North Western Railway		   Ingleton (Midland)
Line and station closed