The Lakes railway station

The Lakes is a railway station located on the North Warwickshire Line in the north of Stratford-on-Avon District in Warwickshire, England. The nearest settlement is the village of Earlswood.

Not to be confused with Lake railway station or Oxenholme Lake District railway station.

The Lakes
The station in 2020
Location
PlaceEarlswood Lakes
Local authorityStratford-on-Avon
Coordinates52.3591°N 1.8448°W / 52.3591; -1.8448
Grid referenceSP106734
Operations
Station codeTLK
Managed byWest Midlands Railway
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 12,116
2015/16 12,812
2016/17 13,888
2017/18 13,062
2018/19 12,666
History
Key datesOpened 3 June 1935 (3 June 1935)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at The Lakes from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Opened by the Great Western Railway as The Lakes Halt on 3 June 1935. The station was built to serve the nearby Earlswood Lakes, which were a popular destination for daytrippers. As it was only designed to cater for local traffic, it was built with relatively short platforms, being only 130 feet (39 metres) long.

Services

The service in each direction between Birmingham and Stratford runs hourly (including Sundays) with most northbound services running through to Stourbridge Junction. It is a request stop: passengers wishing to board a train here must signal to the driver; those wishing to alight must inform the train conductor.[1] All services to the station are operated by West Midlands Railway

gollark: You have 32 million microseconds.
gollark: I *will* do this, if you don't stop procrastinating in one way or another.
gollark: Anyway, do you want me to explain EVERY SINGLE PART of the OIR™ architecture diagram.
gollark: As planned.
gollark: This is how osmarks internet radio™ works. It's moderately complicated.

References
  1. Table 71 National Rail timetable, May 2016
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Earlswood   West Midlands Railway
North Warwickshire Line		   Wood End


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.