Lazonby and Kirkoswald railway station

Lazonby and Kirkoswald railway station is a railway station which serves the villages of Lazonby and Kirkoswald in Cumbria, England. The station is owned by Network Rail and is operated by Northern who provide all passenger train services. The station was opened by the Midland Railway on 1 May 1876. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.[1] Originally named Lazonby, it was renamed Lazonby and Kirkoswald on 22 July 1895.[2] It is situated in the centre of Lazonby and, like many other stations on the line, was closed on 4 May 1970 when local passenger services between Skipton and Carlisle were withdrawn. The platforms and buildings survived however, and following several years of use by Dalesrail excursions it was reopened on a full-time basis in July 1986.[3] The old goods shed and yard is now used by a local bakery.[4]

Lazonby and Kirkoswald
Location
Place	Lazonby
Local authority	Eden
Coordinates	54.750°N 2.702°W / 54.750; -2.702
Grid reference	NY548397
Operations
Station code	LZB
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	15,802
2015/16	12,510
2016/17	4,150
2017/18	11,218
2018/19	10,774
History
Original company	Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
1 May 1876 (1876-05-01)	Opened as Lazonby
22 July 1895	Renamed Lazonby and Kirkoswald
4 May 1970	Closed to regular traffic
14 July 1986	Regular services resumed
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Lazonby and Kirkoswald from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The southbound platform has a stone shelter and access ramps from the nearby road (so it is fully DDA-compliant). On the northbound platform, there is a bus-style waiting shelter. There is no ticket machine (though one is planned for the station by the end of 2019 as part of TOC Northern's wider programme of station improvements) or booking office, so tickets have to be bought in advance or on the train. Train running information is available via information boards and posters and a telephone helpline (PIS displays are also due to be installed by the end of 2019).

Services

Northern Trains Route 7: Bentham & Settle to Carlisle Lines
Carlisle Armathwaite Heysham Port Lazonby and Kirkoswald Morecambe Langwathby Bare Lane Appleby Lancaster Kirkby Stephen Carnforth Garsdale Wennington Dent Bentham Ribblehead Clapham Horton-in-Ribblesdale Giggleswick Settle Long Preston Hellifield Gargrave Skipton Keighley for Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Bingley Shipley Leeds

The station receives a similar level of service to neighbouring Langwathby i.e. eight trains northbound and seven southbound on weekdays and Saturdays (all of which now run to/from Leeds) and six each way on Sundays (including one 'Dalesrail' services to Preston and Blackpool).[5]

Services were disrupted from 28 January 2016 by a landslip north of the station at Eden Brows, which destabilised and damaged the embankment on the eastern side of the railway where it passes through the Eden Gorge. An emergency timetable was in operation, with all trains replaced by buses between Armathwaite (or in certain cases Appleby) and Carlisle until repairs were completed in March 2017.[6] Prior to completion of the reconstruction work only the northbound platform was open, as single-line working was in force from Kirkby Thore signal box (north of Appleby) to the temporary terminus at Armathwaite. The southbound line and platform reopened to traffic as scheduled on 31 March 2017 and a full timetable is now operating once again.

Notes

1. "Notes by the Way". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 1 November 1884. Retrieved 12 July 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
2. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 139. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
3. Settle - Carlisle Line Key Events Archived 11 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2008-08-27
4. "The Settle - Carlisle Railway". Settle-Carlisle Railway Development Company. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
5. Table 42 National Rail timetable, May 2019
6. "Landslip-hit Settle-to-Carlisle line section shut until 2017". BBC News. 7 July 2016.

External links

• Train times and station information for Lazonby and Kirkoswald railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Langwathby		Northern Settle-Carlisle Line		Armathwaite
	Historical railways
Little Salkeld		Midland Railway Settle-Carlisle Railway		Armathwaite