2017

NY6820 : Appleby station footbridge

taken 8 years ago, near to Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria, England

Appleby station footbridge
Appleby station footbridge
With a West Coast Railways charter train.
Appleby railway station

Appleby is a town of around 2500 residents, located around 30 miles south east of Carlisle and around 42 miles north west of Settle by rail.

The station opened in May 1876 when the Leeds to Carlisle via Settle line was opened to passengers by the Midland Railway company. In 1923 it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway company and as a result of nationalisation in 1948 it was passed to British Railways ownership. It was known as Appleby West from 1952 until 1968, due to the presence of another station on a different line in the town. Today it is operated by Northern Rail LinkExternal link .

For several years from 1970, Appleby was one of only two open intermediate stations on the line between Skipton and Carlisle (the other being Settle), fortunately that situation has now changed and many of the intermediate stations have been re-opened.

The Dalesman (charter train)

West Coast Railways operate a summer charter train service between York and Carlisle, called the Dalesman. It is diesel hauled as far as Hellifield (provided with watering facilities for steam locomotives) then steam hauled over the Settle-Carlisle line.


Creative Commons Licence [Some Rights Reserved]   © Copyright Stephen Craven and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Geographical Context: Railways other tags: Charter Train Railway Station Footbridge Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Appleby Station [122] · Appleby Railway Station [84] · Train at Appleby [46] · West [28] · Station Footbridge [21] ·
1:50,000 Modern Day Landranger(TM) Map © Crown Copyright
+
+
1:50,000 Modern Day Landranger(TM) Map © Crown Copyright
TIP: Click the map for more Large scale mapping
Grid Square
NY6820, 578 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Stephen Craven   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Tuesday, 4 July, 2017   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 28 July, 2017
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NY 6863 2070 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:34.8314N 2:29.2109W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NY 6864 2070
View Direction
West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
Clickable map
+
NW N NE
W Go E
SW S SE
Image Type (about): geograph 
This page has been viewed about 66 times
You are not logged in | login | register