Kirkby-in-Furness railway station

Kirkby-in-Furness railway station serves the village of Kirkby-in-Furness in Cumbria, England. The railway station is a request stop on the scenic Cumbrian Coast Line. Some through trains to the Furness Line stop here. The station is owned by Network Rail and is operated by Northern who provide all passenger train services.

Kirkby-in-Furness
Kirkby-in-Furness railway station
Location
Place	Kirkby-in-Furness
Local authority	South Lakeland
Grid reference	SD226825
Operations
Station code	KBF
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	14,340
2015/16	12,596
2016/17	14,578
2017/18	14,398
2018/19	15,530
National Rail – UK railway stations
Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kirkby-in-Furness from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The name Kirkby-in-Furness did not exist until the creation of the railway line. The village in fact is an amalgamation of six smaller villages/hamlets.[1] The name Kirkby was chosen almost at random by the train company for the station and was eventually used for the collection of villages. In Victorian times it gained some fame as the station with the longest platform seat in the country. This though was removed many years ago.

Facilities

There are no longer any permanent buildings at the station apart from a footbridge and shelters on each platform (that on the northbound one being the more substantial).[2] The station has (like others on the line) been fitted with a ticket vending machine, to allow passengers to buy their tickets prior to travel.[3] Step-free access is available to both platforms, though this requires the use of a barrow crossing for northbound passengers and so care must be taken when used. Train running information is provided by telephone, digital display screens and timetable posters.[4]

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.

There is a basic hourly service in each direction, northwards to Millom, Whitehaven & Carlisle (one train terminates at Sellafield) and southwards to Barrow-in-Furness. A few continue through to Lancaster and Preston.[5] The last two evening northbound trains terminate at Millom.

A Sunday service (the first for more than forty years) was introduced at the May 2018 timetable change - this runs broadly hourly from mid-morning until the early evening (though some services only run to/from Millom).

References

1. Places to visit - Kirkby-in-Furness Cumbrian Coast Line; Retrieved 1 December 2016
2. Kirkby-in-Furness station Old Cumbria Gazetteer; Retrieved 1 December 2016
3. "Fares 2019"Cumbrian Coast Rail Users Group news article; Retrieved 8 November 2019
4. Kirkby-in-Furness station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 1 December 2016
5. GB eNRT December 2019 Edition, Table 100 (Network Rail)

External links

• Train times and station information for Kirkby-in-Furness railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Foxfield		Northern Cumbrian Coast Line		Askam