Appleby railway station

This article is about the railway station in Cumbria, England. For other similarly named railway stations see Appleby railway station (disambiguation).

Appleby
Location
Place	Appleby-in-Westmorland
Local authority	Eden
Grid reference	NY686206
Operations
Station code	APP
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	70,808
2011/12	68,884
2012/13	60,992
2013/14	62,600
– Interchange	2
2014/15	57,078
– Interchange	3
History
1 May 1876	Station opens as Appleby
1 September 1952	Renamed Appleby West
6 May 1968	Renamed Appleby
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Appleby from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Appleby railway station is a railway station which serves the town of Appleby-in-Westmorland in Cumbria, England. It is operated by Northern who provide all passenger train services. The station is 30 ¹⁄₂ miles (49.1 km) south east of Carlisle on the Settle-Carlisle Line.

The station was formerly called Appleby West, the older Appleby East station was nearby on the Eden Valley Railway. The buildings of Appleby East still survive.

Well-known railway photographer and enthusiast Bishop Eric Treacy died at Appleby railway station on 13 May 1978 after suffering a heart attack whilst waiting to photograph Evening Star, which was due to pass through the station on a rail tour. A plaque located on the down platform commemorates the spot.^[1]

History

The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.^[2] Opened by the Midland Railway at the same time as the line itself in May 1876, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was one of only two stations on the Settle-Carlisle line to remain open (Settle being the other) following the withdrawal of local stopping trains in May 1970.

A 1903 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (right) railways in the vicinity of Appleby. Present station is shown as MIDLAND STA.

When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the privatisation of British Rail.

Mile post at Appleby

The line through the station is often used as a diversionary route for the West Coast Main Line for both passenger and freight trains. A pre-nationalisation milepost on the southbound platform marks the station's location  277 ¹⁄₄ miles from London (St Pancras) on the Midland Railway route via Leicester, Derby, Sheffield and Leeds.

Facilities

The water tank and tower in use to supply LMS 8P 4-6-2 "Duchess of Sutherland" on a southbound rail tour

The main brick-built station building with booking office and waiting room is located on the northbound platform. A smaller brick-built waiting room is located on the southbound platform. A period footbridge links the two platforms. Step-free access to both is also available (via the road underbridge & ramps to the southbound platform, direct from the station entrance for northbound travellers). Staffing is part-time, six days per week (not Sundays) - train running information is available by phone or timetable posters outside these times.

There is a water tank with water tower at the south end of the platform which is used to supply steam locomotives which stop with southbound trains during special excursions on the Settle and Carlisle line. To the north are a number of engineers sidings (which once formed the connection to the Eden Valley branch to Warcop, Kirkby Stephen East and Barnard Castle) and an active signal box.

Services

There is generally a service every two hours daily northbound to Carlisle and southbound to Leeds^[3] - seven each way in total since the May 2011 timetable change, a modest improvement on the former schedule of seven northbound & six southbound trains on weekdays, plus an extra SX early morning departure to Kirkby Stephen only and an extra morning departure for Leeds on Saturdays.

Four services each way call on Sundays (including one afternoon express service to Nottingham introduced at the December 2012 timetable change), increasing to five in the summer months (the extra trains being the DalesRail service to/from Preston & Blackpool North).

Services have been disrupted since 28 January 2016, due to a landslip at Eden Brows (near Armathwaite) which destabilised the embankment on the eastern side of the railway, where it passes through the Eden Gorge. An emergency timetable was put into operation, with trains from the south terminating or starting at Appleby, and buses running between Appleby and Carlisle.^[4] Since 27 June 2016 some rail services have been restored further north to Armathwaite, with bus links to and from Carlisle, Penrith, Appleby and Armathwaite continuing to supplement the train service.^[5] Repair works are due to continue until March 2017.^[6]

See also

• Listed buildings in Appleby-in-Westmorland

References

1. The Settle and Carlisle line ISBN 978-1-85895-263-5
2. "Notes by the Way.". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 1 November 1884. Retrieved 12 July 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
3. GB National Rail Timetable 2016, Table 42 (Network Rail)
4. "Latest Network Rail landslip disruption closes the Settle-Carlisle line". Rail.co.uk. 26 February 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
5. "Trains run Leeds to/from Armathwaite". The Settle - Carlisle Railway. 26 September 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
6. "Landslip-hit Settle-to-Carlisle line section shut until 2017"BBC News; Retrieved 7 July 2016

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• Train times and station information for Appleby railway station from National Rail
• Station on navigable O.S. map. Southerly of the two stations.

Coordinates: 54°34′48″N 2°29′13″W / 54.580°N 2.487°W