Cark and Cartmel railway station

Cark and Cartmel railway station (often just Cark railway station) is a railway station that serves the villages of Allithwaite, Cark, Flookburgh and Cartmel in Cumbria, England. It is located on the Furness Line from Barrow-in-Furness to Lancaster. The station is owned by Network Rail and is operated by Northern who provide all passenger train services.

Cark and Cartmel
Main building at Cark & Cartmel station
Location
Place	Cark
Local authority	South Lakeland
Coordinates	54.178°N 2.973°W / 54.178; -2.973
Grid reference	SD365762
Operations
Station code	CAK
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	70,980
2015/16	76,448
2016/17	75,790
2017/18	76,572
2018/19	71,234
History
Key dates	Opened 1857 (1857)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cark and Cartmel from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

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History

The station is architecturally interesting, with a main building (see image) erected by the Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway (U&LR) in 1857. The station opened on 1 September 1857 as Cark-in-Cartmell. The current name was adopted in 1906. The Furness Railway took over the U&LR on 21 January 1862 and was absorbed into the London Midland & Scottish Railway on 1 January 1923.

The station had a particular importance, as it serves Holker Hall, the home of Lord Cavendish of Furness formerly belonging to the Dukes of Devonshire. Special waiting rooms were provided for the dukes and their guests. The actual building retains many original features and is now a private residence. It extends to approximately one acre of gardens and woodland.

Facilities

The station is unstaffed but has been provided with ticket machines to allow intending travellers to buy tickets prior to travel. There are shelters and digital information screens on each platform, along with a long-line P.A system for train running information provision. The platforms are linked by a footbridge, but step-free access is also available on each side for disabled travellers.[1]

Service

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.

The station is on the Furness line linking Lancaster and Barrow (though some services extend south to Preston or north east to Carlisle).

• The station receives a roughly hourly service to Barrow operated by Northern and calling at:

Ulverston, Dalton, Roose and Barrow-in-Furness.

Four of these services continue from Barrow on to Carlisle calling at:

Askam, Kirkby-in-Furness, Foxfield, Green Road, Millom, Silecroft, Bootle, Ravenglass, Drigg, Seascale, Sellafield, Braystones, Nethertown, St Bees, Corkickle, Whitehaven, Parton, Harrington, Workington, Flimby, Maryport, Aspatria, Wigton, Dalston and Carlisle. Two evening trains terminate at Millom and one afternoon train at Sellafield (weekdays only).

• There is also a roughly hourly service towards Lancaster, calling at:

Kents Bank, Grange over Sands, Arnside, Silverdale, Carnforth and Lancaster. Three services a day are extended to Preston, calling additionally at Preston only

A number of services continue through to Manchester Airport via Wigan North Western and Manchester Piccadilly - these were formerly operated by First TransPennine Express up until the end of the old Northern and TransPennine franchises on 31 March 2016.

Sundays see an hourly service each way (with some longer gaps).[2]

See also

Grange-over-Sands railway station

References

1. Cark and Cartmel Station Information National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 25 November 2016
2. Table 82 National Rail timetable, December 2019

External links

• Train times and station information for Cark and Cartmel railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Ulverston		Northern Trains Furness Line		Kents Bank
Ulverston		Northern Trains Barrow-in-Furness - Manchester Airport (Limited service)		Kents Bank (limited service)
				Grange-Over-Sands