Roose railway station

Roose railway station is a railway station that serves the suburb of Roose, which is in the town of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, England. It is located on the Furness Line to Lancaster 1 ³⁄₄ miles (2.8 km) south of the main Barrow station.[1] The station is owned by Network Rail.

Not to be confused with Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station.

Roose
Location
Place	Roose
Local authority	Barrow-in-Furness
Grid reference	SD220694
Operations
Station code	ROO
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	43,870
2015/16	45,084
2016/17	58,492
2017/18	61,710
2018/19	53,920
National Rail – UK railway stations
Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Roose from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Facilities here are very basic - it is unstaffed and there are no permanent buildings present, other than standard shelters.[2] Travellers must buy tickets on the train or in advance, as there are no ticketing facilities on offer (though the station is due to receive one in 2019 as part of a wider package of station improvements in the region).[3] Train running information is provided by telephone and timetable posters. Step-free access to the platforms is available via a ramp on the south side from the nearby road bridge that also acts as the link between the two and directly from the adjacent road on the northbound side.[4][2]

Services

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

Roose is served by Northern, who operate a basic hourly service with some two hour gaps between Barrow-in-Furness and Lancaster. Certain trains are extended northwards to Workington and Carlisle and several southbound ones are extended to Preston or Manchester Airport.[1] A similar service operates on Sundays.

References

1. Table 82 National Rail timetable, May 2019
2. Roose Station Knapp, A.P Geograph.org; Retrieved 25 November 2016
3. Roose Station Information Northern Station Pages; Retrieved 25 November 2016
4. Roose Station Details National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 25 November 2016

External links

• Train times and station information for Roose railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Barrow-in-Furness		Northern Trains Furness Line		Dalton
Barrow-in-Furness		Northern Trains Barrow-in-Furness - Manchester Airport (Limited service)		Dalton
	Historical railways
Barrow-in-Furness (Strand) Line and station closed		Furness Railway		Furness Abbey Line open, station closed