Kents Bank railway station

Kents Bank railway station is a railway station that serves the village of Kents Bank 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.

Kents Bank
Location
Place	Kents Bank
Local authority	South Lakeland
Grid reference	SD396756
Operations
Station code	KBK
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	26,180
2015/16	25,348
2016/17	28,262
2017/18	28,356
2018/19	26,354
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 Kents Bank from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station building was designed by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin in 1865 for the Furness Railway.[1] Though it remains, it is in private residential use.

Facilities

The station is unstaffed but now has ticket machines available, allowing passenger to buy before boarding. Shelters are located on each platform, along with digital information screens and a P.A system. Access to the northbound platform is via a user-worked barrier level crossing,[2] so whilst it has step-free access disabled travellers should exercise caution when crossing the line.[3]

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.

Kents Bank is served by Northern, who operate a basic hourly service with some two-hour gaps between Barrow-in-Furness and Lancaster. Certain northbound trains are extended to Whitehaven & Carlisle and several southbound trains are extended to Preston and Manchester Airport. A (mostly) hourly service runs each way on Sundays.[4]

References

1. Price, James (1998). Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942. Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies. p. 78. ISBN 1-86220-054-8.
2. Kents Bank Station "The Carlisle Kid" Geograph.org; Retrieved 24 November 2016
3. Kents Bank Station Information National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 25 November 2016
4. GB eNRT December 2019 Edition, Table 82

External links

• Train times and station information for Kents Bank railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Cark and Cartmel		Northern Trains Furness Line		Grange-over-Sands
Cark and Cartmel		Northern Trains Barrow-in-Furness - Manchester Airport (Limited service)		Grange-Over-Sands