Smardale railway station
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Smardale railway station was a minor station on the South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway between Tebay and Kirkby Stephen East. It served the villages of Smardale and Waitby. The station opened to passenger traffic on 8 August 1861, and closed on 1 December 1952.
Description and history
At the time of its opening in 1861 the only habitation in the village of Smardale was Smardale Hall. The station consisted of a single platform on the south side of the line, and stone built station buildings as well as two goods sidings.[1]
A signal box was added in the 1890s. During the First World War from 20 September 1915 the station closed being used as a halt but unstaffed. It reopened in 1919. The signal box was removed in the 1920s, and the station closed in 1952.[1][2]
In 2002 the preservation society Stainmore Railway Company (at Kirkby Stephen East) recovered two wagons which had derailed near the station and been left undisturbed for half a century.[3] As of 2013 the Stationmaster's house was still extant and formed the basis of an expanded private residence.[1]
References
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- ↑ a b c Smardale www.disused-stations.org.uk
- ↑ Stainmore Railway Company - Photographs : Smardale Halt www.cumbria-railways.co.uk
- ↑ Rail crash remains recovered after 49 years 20 March 2004, Cumberland and Westmorland Herald, www.cwherald.com
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Images
- Old Cumbria Gazetteer: Smardale Station www.geog.port.ac.uk
- Stainmore lines 1 The Cumbria Railways Association Photo Library, cra.photos.gb.net
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- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1861
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