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Lancaster And Carlisle Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![08 910 and 47 456 lead a diesel cavalcade at Carlisle.<br><br>[John Gray //]](/images/0/952.jpg "Carlisle")
![Oxenholme station at night.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1729.jpg "Oxenholme")
![Looking north at Penrith station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1730.jpg "Penrith")
![Looking north at Carnforth station. The WCML half, to the right, is out of use.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1731.jpg "Carnforth")
![Northbound freight passing Shap Hardendale Quarry.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1732.jpg "Hardendale")
![Carnforth Barrow and Leeds bound platforms looking north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2222.jpg "Carnforth")
![Clifton looking north to the former north facing junction for the Eden Valley Railway. To the south was the south facing junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2229.jpg "Clifton and Lowther")
![Shap Limestone Works sidings viewed from the south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2234.jpg "Hardendale")
![Looking west over the West Coast Mainline and the site of Tebay station and junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2237.jpg "Tebay")
![Mail train approaching Shap from the north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7077.jpg "Harrisons Sidings")
![Short train at Tebay.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7125.jpg "Tebay")
![Coal empties approaching Tebay.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7130.jpg "Tebay")
![Coruss Hardendale Quarry near Shap. A limestone train prepares to leave.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/11000/11940.jpg "Hardendale")
![Patriot 4-6-0 45501 <I>St Dunstans</I> photographed in the late 1950s/early 60s alongside the 1948 concrete roundhouse built as a replacement for the old LNWR sheds at 12B Carlisle Upperby. The locomotive was withdrawn in September 1961.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20112.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![A busy scene at the south end of Carlisle station in the early 1960s. Black 5 44973 has pulled up with a train at platform 3 alongside a DMU on the centre road [the DMU is displaying destination code 1L12]. Meantime, across at platform 4, Jubilee 4-6-0 45573 <I>Newfoundland</I>, prepares to leave with a train for the south, carrying code 1M97 chalked on its smokebox door. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20217.jpg "Carlisle")
![Stanier Jubilee class 4-6-0 No 45698 <I>Mars</I> approaching Carlisle with an evening arrival from the south in the early 1960s. Carlisle No 5 box stands in the right background while on the left is the ex-LNWR Crown Street goods depot.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20298.jpg "Carlisle")
![Jubilee 45626 <I>Seychelles</I> about to leave Carlisle with a southbound train in the early 1960s. The locomotive was eventually withdrawn in 1965. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20314.jpg "Carlisle")
![Stanier Pacific 46225 <I>Duchess of Gloucester</I> stands at Upperby shed in the early 60s ready to move off to Carlisle station and take over a train on the WCML. [Thanks to David Pesterfield and Duncan Hinchley]<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20373.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Fairburn 2-6-4T 42210, photographed on Shap in the early 1960s, assisting a heavy passenger train up the bank. <br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20381.jpg "Shap Summit")
![Banker in action on Shap in the mid 1960s in the form of Fairburn 2-6-4 tank no 42232 of Tebay shed.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20511.jpg "Shap Summit")
![Black 5 no 45349 waits on the middle road at Carlisle to relieve a southbound special in the mid 1960s. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20587.jpg "Carlisle")
![Black 5 no 45330 stands at Carlisle platform 3 in the mid 1960s at the head of a southbound special.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20682.jpg "Carlisle")
![Preserved Gresley ex-LNER A3 Pacific no 4472 <I>Flying Scotsman</I> stands at Carlisle platform 4 in the 1960s with a southbound special.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20715.jpg "Carlisle")
![45330 takes a special south out of Carlisle towards no 5 box in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20866.jpg "Carlisle")
![Black 5 45349 stands alongside Jubilee 45562 <I>Alberta</I> at the south end of Carlisle station in the 1960s. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/21000/21037.jpg "Carlisle")
![Britannia Pacific 70022 <I>Tornado</I> replenishes her water supply from Dillicar troughs, south of Tebay, in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/21000/21073.jpg "Dillicar Troughs")
![BR Britannia Pacific 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> preparing to couple up to the empty stock of a special in the yards at Carnforth in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/21000/21222.jpg "Carnforth")
![A southbound freight runs through Tebay behind Black 5 45041 in the early 1960s. The locomotive shedcode of 8C (Speke) is written on the smokebox door in chalk. The NER route over Stainmore Summit turns off to the east in the right background.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/21000/21463.jpg "Tebay")
![Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 no 45377 off Bolton shed speeds through Oxenholme station with a northbound express in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/21000/21769.jpg "Oxenholme")
![Britannia Pacific 70021 <I>Morning Star</I> on shed at Carlisle Upperby in the mid 60s. Withdrawn in December 1967, the locomotive was cut up at Wards, Inverkeithing, the following April. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/21000/21949.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Scene at Carlisle in the mid 1960s with <I>Britannia</I> Pacific 70041 <I>Sir John Moore</I> (minus nameplates) with a train at platform 4 and Ivatt 2MT 2-6-0 no 46426 on the centre road. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/21000/21958.jpg "Carlisle")
![Regarded by many as one of the world's greatest steam locomotive engineers, Andre Chapelon retired as Engineer-in-Chief of the SNCF in 1953. Part of his legacy, one of the legendary SNCF 231K Pacifics, is seen here at Steamtown, Carnforth in the 1970s. Chapelon died in 1978.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //]](/images/21000/21983.jpg "Carnforth")
![<I>Whenever you're ready ma'am....</I> 46225 <I>Duchess of Gloucester</I> prepares to leave Upperby shed in the early 1960s and make the short trip to Carlisle station, prior to relieving one of her sister locomotives on arrival from Glasgow Central.<br>
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<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/22000/22389.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Black 5 no 45297 heads south with a train on the WCML near Plumpton on the approach to Penrith in the 1960s. [See image 34843]<br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/23000/23599.jpg "Plumpton")
![Completed in 1846, the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway over Shap stands as perhaps the greatest tribute to engineer Joseph Locke. The photograph, taken in the 1960s, shows a 2-6-4T working hard on banking duty north of Scout Green near the Shap Wells Hotel.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/23000/23702.jpg "Shap Summit")
![Black 5 no 44700 with an 11-coach train and banker near Shap Wells in the 1960s heading for the summit. Today, part of the background is occupied by the M6 Motorway.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/23000/23799.jpg "Shap Summit")
![Interesting lineup of steam locomotives at the south end of Carlisle station in the mid 1960s comprising, from the left, 41222, 45697 <I>Achilles</I> and 45295.<br>
<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/25000/25473.jpg "Carlisle")
![Stanier Black 5 no 45041 at the head of a 10 coach train near Shap Wells in the mid 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/26000/26373.jpg "Shap Summit")
![A southbound train leaves Carlisle on a Summer evening in the mid sixties behind a Britannia Pacific.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/26000/26457.jpg "Carlisle")
![Rebuilt <I>Patriot</I> 4-6-0 no 45545 <I>Planet</I> stands in the sidings on the west side of Carlisle station in the early 1960s at the head of a northbound parcels train.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/26000/26866.jpg "Carlisle")
![A northbound freight fights its way up Shap in the mid sixties between Scout Green and Shap Wells with the help of a Fairburn 2-6-4T at the rear.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/29000/29047.jpg "Shap Summit")
![Black 5 4-6-0 no 44717 on the climb near Shap Wells unassisted in the mid sixties <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/29000/29139.jpg "Shap Summit")
![Black 5 no 45030 takes a train south out of Carlisle in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/29000/29327.jpg "Carlisle")
![Black 5 no 45041 takes a train north near Shap Wells in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/29000/29464.jpg "Shap Summit")
![Britannia Pacific no 70054 <I>Dornoch Firth</I> climbs Shap with a down freight in the mid sixties. The location is thought to be just short of Trundle Beck, between Salterwath and Shap Wells.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/29000/29488.jpg "Shap Summit")
![Stanier Coronation Pacific no 46247 <I>City of Liverpool</I> stands on the centre road at Carlisle, probably in the early 1960s. The locomotive was withdrawn from Kingmoor shed in May 1963 and scrapped at Crewe Works in July the same year.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/29000/29545.jpg "Carlisle")
![Stanier Coronation Pacific no 46225 <I>Duchess of Gloucester</I> stands ready for the road on Carlisle Upperby shed. Withdrawn from here at the end of September 1964, no 46225 was cut up at the Troon yard of Arnott Young the following month.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/29000/29710.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Train locomotive and banker both working hard climbing Shap in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/40000/40974.jpg "Shap Summit")
![Black 5 no 45451 working hard with a northbound train on Shap in the 1960s. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/41000/41030.jpg "Shap")
![Black 5 no 45274 battles up Shap with a train in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/41000/41053.jpg "Shap")
![<I>See me!</I> Black 5 44717 makes it look easy with an unassisted ascent of Shap in the early 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/41000/41178.jpg "Shap Summit")
![Last shot of the day? Train 1X37 climbing Shap during rapidly fading light one afternoon in the mid sixties. The train locomotive is no 70034 <I>'Thomas Hardy'</I> which spent its final year at Kingmoor shed prior to withdrawal by BR in May 1967. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/41000/41219.jpg "Shap")
![A relaxed looking crew member of Black 5 no 44671 takes in the scenery on a train ascending Shap in the mid 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/41000/41241.jpg "Shap")
![Black 5 no 45142 with an up freight near Plumpton, north of Penrith, in the 1960s. [See image 23599 for the view north from the bridge]. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/41000/41265.jpg "Plumpton")
![A northbound parcels train ascending Shap in the sixties behind Black 5 no 45373.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/41000/41288.jpg "Shap")
![BR Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73099 with an up train passing Plumpton, north of Penrith, in the 1960s. [See image 41265]<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/41000/41303.jpg "Plumpton")
![Black 5 no 45415 with banking assistance on Shap in the early 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/41000/41329.jpg "Shap")
![An unidentified 'Britannia' Pacific climbing Shap with a 10-coach train unassisted in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/41000/41466.jpg "Shap")
![A southbound train on Shap heading for Tebay in the 1960s behind an unidentified Stanier Coronation Pacific.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/41000/41497.jpg "Shap")
![A double-headed passenger train ascending Shap in fading light during the 1960s. The leading loco will almost certainly be a Grayrigg banker attached as pilot at Oxenholme and which will come off the train at Shap Summit.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/41000/41530.jpg "Shap")
![Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45622 <I>Nyasaland</I> approaching Carlisle from the south. The locomotive is carrying a 17B (Burton) shed plate which would date the photograph as 1963/64.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/41000/41719.jpg "Carlisle")
![Ex-LMS Stanier 8F 2-8-0 No 48151, built at Crewe in September 1942 and eventually withdrawn from Northwich shed in January 1968. Rescued from Barry scrapyard in 1975 the locomotive now operates regular charters on behalf of West Coast Railways. Photographed at Carnforth in the early 1990s. [See image 47682] <br><br>[John Steven //]](/images/52000/52286.jpg "Carnforth")
![Head-on view of Stanier 8F 2-8-0 48151 at Carnforth in the early 1990s [see image 52286]. <br><br>[John Steven //]](/images/52000/52297.jpg "Carnforth")
![LMS Claughton class 4-6-0 no 5997 <I>Buckingham</I> standing at the south end of Carlisle Citadel station, thought to have been taken in the early 1930s.<br><br>[Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/57000/57226.jpg "Carlisle")
![LMS 'Claughton' class 4-6-0 no 5953 <I>Buckingham</I> with a train at Carlisle in the early 1930s. Built in 1917 for the LNWR (as 986) the locomotive was withdrawn in 1936.<br><br>[Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/57000/57537.jpg "Carlisle")
![LMS 2P 4-4-0 no 444 at Carlisle in the 1930s. The ex-Midland veteran, built at Derby in 1894, was finally withdrawn from Leeds (Holbeck) in the summer of 1953. <br><br>[Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/57000/57574.jpg "Carlisle")
![LMS Patriot 5901 <I>Sir Robert Turnbull</I> stands at Carlisle in 1933, shortly after delivery from Crewe Works. For a short period the locomotive carried the same name and number as the Claughton it had replaced (the original LNWR 1161), but within a short time was renumbered by the LMS as 5540, eventually becoming 45540 under BR. It was withdrawn from Carlisle Upperby in April 1963 and cut up at Crewe Works some three months later.<br><br>[Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1933]](/images/57000/57991.jpg "Carlisle")
![Down midday Scot passing Tebay. LMS 4.6.2 46257 City of Salford.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 13/04/1951]](/images/9000/9317.jpg "Tebay")
![Darlington train arriving at Penrith. NER 0.6.0 65047.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/04/1951]](/images/9000/9316.jpg "Penrith")
![Baby Scot 4.6.0 45538 Giggleswick passing Penrith on down freight.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/04/1951]](/images/9000/9318.jpg "Penrith")
![Baby Scot 4.6.0 45510 on up passenger at Penrith.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/04/1951]](/images/9000/9319.jpg "Penrith")
![LMS 2 4.4.0 40694 on Whitehaven train at Carlisle.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/04/1951]](/images/9000/9327.jpg "Carlisle")
![Royal Scot 46102 <I>Black Watch</I> simmers in the sidings at Upperby shed in 1958. One of the examples built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow in 1927, no 46102 was officially withdrawn at the end of 1962 and disposed of by McWilliams of Shettleston in May 1964. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 15/04/1958]](/images/22000/22781.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![45289 at Carlisle Upperby Shed in April 1958.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 15/04/1958]](/images/23000/23373.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Black 5 no 45258 looking ready for action on Upperby shed on 31 May 1958 <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 31/05/1958]](/images/28000/28717.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Black 5 no 45431 and Jubilee 45643 <I>Rodney</I> double head a WCML service south out of Carlisle in the early sixties with the train having just crossed the bridge over the goods lines. In the background a DMU can be seen running from Currock Junction towards Citadel station and in the bottom right of the picture is one of the lines leading into Crown Street goods depot.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 05/07/1958]](/images/24000/24627.jpg "Carlisle")
![Jubilee 45593 <I>Kolhapur</I> stands alongside Black 5 44750 on the middle roads at the south end of Carlisle on 5 July 1958 waiting to take over southbound trains.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 05/07/1958]](/images/27000/27396.jpg "Carlisle")
![Fowler ex-LMS 2P 4-4-0 no 40629 languishes at the rear of Upperby shed in the summer of 1958.<br><br>[R Sillitto Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 05/07/1958]](/images/33000/33794.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![49268 stands in the shed yard at Upperby in July 1958. (This particular area of the shed yard was known locally as 'The Burma Road'.)<br><br>[R Sillitto Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 05/07/1958]](/images/33000/33997.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![G2 0-8-0 no 49228 stands on Upperby shed in May 1958.<br><br>[R Sillitto Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 05/07/1958]](/images/34000/34464.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Class G2A 0-8-0 no 49228 in the sidings at Upperby in July 1958.<br><br>[R Sillitto Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 05/07/1958]](/images/35000/35004.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![One of three Crosti boilered 9F 2-10-0s allocated to Kingmoor shed for a period, no 92024, stands at the south end of Carlisle station in July 1959. The locomotive was converted to conventional operation in 1960. <br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 04/07/1959]](/images/22000/22329.jpg "Carlisle")
![J21 0-6-0 no 65033 stands at Carlisle platform 4 on 7 May 1960 with the R.C.T.S. (N.E. Branch)/Stockton & Darlington Locomotive Society J21 Rail Tour. According to the station clock, the special is already 5 minutes down on its scheduled 4.30pm departure time for the return trip to Darlington via Penrith, Appleby East and the Stainmore route.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/05/1960]](/images/35000/35475.jpg "Carlisle")
![Jubilee no 45588 <I>Kashmir</I> stands on Upperby shed on 3 June 1960.<br><br>[K A Gray /06/1960]](/images/35000/35435.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Portrait of Stanier 8F 2-8-0 no 48612 on Upperby shed, Carlisle, in June 1960.<br><br>[K A Gray 03/06/1960]](/images/27000/27271.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Jubilee no 45588 <I>Kashmir</I> photographed at Upperby on 3 June 1960. <br><br>[K A Gray 03/06/1960]](/images/34000/34777.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Patriot 4-6-0 no 45509 <I>The Derbyshire Yeomanry</I> pulls into platform 4 at Carlisle in July 1960 with an up <I>CTAC Scottish Tours Express</I>.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 09/07/1960]](/images/22000/22620.jpg "Carlisle")
![Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45596 <I>Bahamas</I> on shed at Upperby in the summer of 1960. [See image 38073]<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 09/07/1960]](/images/29000/29033.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Black 5 no 45158 <I>Glasgow Yeomanry</I>, photographed in July 1960 on Upperby shed.<br><br>[K A Gray 30/07/1960]](/images/40000/40542.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45580 <I>Burma</I> photographed on 12B Upperby shed in the summer of 1960. <br><br>[K A Gray 30/07/1960]](/images/44000/44082.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Locomotives on shed at Carlisle Upperby on 30 July 1960 include Fowler 4F 0-6-0 44490. <br><br>[K A Gray 30/07/1960]](/images/54000/54698.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Wigan based Black 5 45026 in the shed yard at Upperby in the summer of 1960. <br><br>[K A Gray 30/07/1960]](/images/55000/55716.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![The shed yard at Upperby on 5 August 1960, with Widnes based Stanier 8F 2-8-0 no 48139 one of the guests.<br><br>[K A Gray 05/08/1960]](/images/44000/44502.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Scene at the south end of Carlisle station in February 1961. On the left is an unidentified EE Type 4 waiting at platform 3 with a southbound WCML service. Alongside is A3 no 60070 <I>Gladiateur</I> which has just brought in the 9.20 Glasgow St Enoch - St Pancras <I>Thames - Clyde Express</I>, while another A3, no 60080 <I>Dick Turpin</I>, is about to take the train forward.<br><br>[K A Gray 10/02/1961]](/images/27000/27822.jpg "Carlisle")
![Jubilee 45654 <I>Hood</I> takes the 9am Glasgow St Enoch - London St Pancras south from Carlisle in August 1961.<br><br>[K A Gray 05/08/1961]](/images/40000/40139.jpg "Carlisle")
![Royal Scot 4-6-0 no 46139 <I>The Welch Regiment</I> waits patiently on one of the centre roads at Carlisle station on the morning of 23 September 1961, having arrived light engine from Upperby shed. The locomotive will eventually take over the 10.15am Glasgow Central - Euston train.<br><br>[K A Gray 23/09/1961]](/images/31000/31762.jpg "Carlisle")
![Jubilee 45696 <I>Arethusa</I> is the leading locomotive of a double header about to leave Carlisle in September 1961.<br><br>[K A Gray 23/09/1961]](/images/47000/47691.jpg "Carlisle")
![77003+76049 photographed at Tebay on 20 January 1962 having arrived with 1X76 <I>The Stainmore Limited</I>. The 9-coach special had been organised by the RCTS (Darlington & North Eastern Branch) to mark the end of operations over Stainmore and, on its return journey later that day, 1X76 became the last train to traverse the route. [See image 24103] <br><br>[K A Gray 20/01/1962]](/images/30000/30677.jpg "Tebay")
![Stanier Coronation Pacific 46253 <I>City of St Albans</I> stands in the shed yard at Upperby in the summer of 1962. The locomotive was a visitor from Crewe North, from where it was withdrawn in January the following year.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/05/1962]](/images/45000/45281.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
!['Jubilee' no 45596 <I>Bahamas</I> photographed on Upperby shed in June 1962. The locomotive had been fitted with the double chimney the previous year, something which altered its appearance considerably [see image 29033]. Following withdrawal by BR in July 1966 no 45596 was purchased for preservation by the Bahamas Locomotive Society.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/06/1962]](/images/38000/38073.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Fowler 2-6-4T no 42357 stands on Upperby shed in the summer of 1962. <br><br>[K A Gray 07/06/1962]](/images/44000/44321.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![LMS Fowler 4P 2-6-4T no 42357 on Upperby shed in the summer of 1962.<br><br>[John Robin 24/06/1962]](/images/48000/48065.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![The shed yard at Carlisle Upperby on Sunday 24 June 1962. Locomotives featured are Jubilee 45681 <I>Aboukir</I> and Black 5 45313. <br><br>[John Robin 24/06/1962]](/images/49000/49311.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![LMS <I>Jinty</I> 47269 on Upperby shed in the summer of 1962.<br><br>[John Robin 24/06/1962]](/images/52000/52535.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![The crowded shed yard at Carlisle Upperby, seen from the footbridge on 24 June 1962. <br><br>[John Robin 24/06/1962]](/images/52000/52836.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Royal Scot no 46132 <I>The King's Regiment Liverpool</I> stands at Carlisle in August 1962 with the 10.50am Glasgow Central - Liverpool Exchange.<br><br>[K A Gray 04/08/1962]](/images/31000/31635.jpg "Carlisle")
![Stanier Princess Pacific no 46208 <I>Princess Helena Victoria</I> runs past a pair of admirers and into Carlisle platform 1 on 4 August 1962 with the 9.20am Crewe - Aberdeen train.<br><br>[K A Gray 04/08/1962]](/images/32000/32298.jpg "Carlisle")
![Fowler 0-6-0 no 44399 shunting a sleeping car at the south end of Carlisle station in the summer of 1962.<br><br>[K A Gray 04/08/1962]](/images/34000/34289.jpg "Carlisle")
![Rebuilt 'Patriot' 4-6-0 no 45532 <I>Illustrious</I>, photographed at Carlisle on 4 August 1962. The train about to be taken south out of platform 4 is the 7.37am 1M31 Aberdeen - Manchester.<br><br>[K A Gray 04/08/1962]](/images/34000/34525.jpg "Carlisle")
![The 10.50am Glasgow Central - Liverpool Exchange heads south from Carlisle on 4 August 1962 behind Royal Scot 46132 <I>The King's Regiment Liverpool</I>.<br><br>[K A Gray 04/08/1962]](/images/47000/47359.jpg "Carlisle")
![Royal Scot no 46121 <I>Highland Light Infantry, City of Glasgow Regiment</I>, with a summer Saturday through service, south of Carlisle on 4 August 1962. The train is the 11.50am from Glasgow Central to Manchester and Morecambe.<br><br>[K A Gray 04/08/1962]](/images/62000/62236.jpg "Carlisle")
![Stanier Coronation Pacific no 46245 <I>City of London</I> takes the 9.56 am ex-Glasgow Central south out of Carlisle on a wintry 22 December 1962, heading for Euston.<br><br>[K A Gray 22/12/1962]](/images/47000/47230.jpg "Carlisle")
![Royal Scot 46128 <I>The Lovat Scouts</I> approaching Carlisle from the south past a busy looking Crown Street goods depot on an overcast 22 December 1962. The train is the 9.35am Liverpool Exchange - Glasgow Central.<br><br>[K A Gray 22/12/1962]](/images/47000/47639.jpg "Carlisle")
![Scene at Carlisle platform 4 on the morning of Saturday 22 December 1962. Stanier Coronation Pacific no 46245 <I>City of London</I> has just taken over the 9.56 am ex-Glasgow Central for the next leg of its journey to Euston. <br><br>[K A Gray 22/12/1962]](/images/58000/58217.jpg "Carlisle")
![Stanier pacific 46200 <I>The Princess Royal</I> stands in the sunshine in a stored locomotive siding at Upperby following her withdrawal from Kingmoor shed in November 1962. The locomotive was subsequently shipped north and finally met her end in the Calder scrapyard of Messrs Connell & Co, Coatbridge, in October 1964.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1963]](/images/20000/20232.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Upperby shed's 'Jinty' 0-6-0T no 47667 at Crown Street goods depot, Carlisle. The photograph is thought to have been taken on 6 April 1963. Crown Street was officially closed by BR in 1966 [see image 24608]. <br><br>[K A Gray 06/04/1963]](/images/37000/37591.jpg "Crown Street Goods")
![Britannia Pacific no 70044 <I>Earl Haig</I> takes the 12.05 Glasgow Central - Birmingham New Street out of Carlisle in April 1963.<br><br>[K A Gray 12/04/1963]](/images/28000/28321.jpg "Carlisle")
![46241 <I>City of Edinburgh</I> drifts into Carlisle from the south on 1 June 1963 at the head of the 9.15am ex-Crewe.<br><br>[K A Gray 01/06/1963]](/images/45000/45602.jpg "Carlisle")
![45531 heads south on the WCML past Upperby yards and shed in June 1963. This particular BR boundary fence will be readily recognisable to a number of enthusiasts of a certain age.<br><br>[K A Gray 01/06/1963]](/images/46000/46719.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![The RCTS (West Riding Branch) 'Three Summit Rail Tour' stands at Carlisle platform 4 on 30 June 1963 on its way home to Leeds City. A4 60023 <I>Golden Eagle</I> has taken over from classmate 60004 <I>William Whitelaw</I>, which had brought the special south from Auchinleck. The train returned to Leeds via the Low Gill - Sedbergh - Clapham route.<br><br>[K A Gray 30/06/1963]](/images/53000/53946.jpg "Carlisle")
![Rebuilt <I>Patriot</I> no 45526 <I>Morecambe and Heysham</I> about to take the 10.35am Glasgow Central - Blackpool out of Carlisle platform 4 on 13 July 1963.<br><br>[K A Gray 13/07/1963]](/images/32000/32990.jpg "Carlisle")
![Rebuilt Patriot 4-6-0 no 45534 <I>E Tootal Broadhurst</I> passing Crown Street goods depot on the southern approach to Carlisle on 13 July 1963. The train is the 1S48 summer Saturday 9.20am Manchester Victoria - Glasgow Central which was routed via Hellifield and Kilmarnock.<br><br>[K A Gray 13/07/1963]](/images/48000/48144.jpg "Carlisle")
![<I>Patriot</I> class 4-6-0 no 45526 <I>Morecambe and Heysham</I> leaves Carlisle on 13 July 1963 after taking over the summer Saturday 10.35 am Glasgow Central - Blackpool.<br><br>[K A Gray 13/07/1963]](/images/58000/58265.jpg "Carlisle")
![Royal Scot 46114 <I>Coldstream Guardsman</I> waits at signals alongside Carlisle platform 4 on 27 July 1963. The locomotive had recently arrived with a train from the south and was awaiting the clear to run back to Upperby shed.<br><br>[K A Gray 27/07/1963]](/images/61000/61954.jpg "Carlisle")
![Rebuilt Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45735 <I>Comet</I> leaves Carlisle on 3 August 1963 with the 1X77 relief Perth - Euston. The locomotive was one of two examples of the class to undergo such rebuilds [see image 29782].<br><br>[K A Gray 03/08/1963]](/images/49000/49447.jpg "Carlisle")
![Approaching Carlisle from the south on 3 August 1963 is the 8.50am summer Saturday Blackpool Central - Glasgow Central. Locomotive in charge is Blackpool based Jubilee no 45574 <I>India</I>.<br><br>[K A Gray 03/08/1963]](/images/51000/51901.jpg "Carlisle")
![The 11.50am Glasgow Central - Morecambe stands at Carlisle platform 3 on a summer Saturday in August 1963. Crewe North 'Coronation' Pacific no 46248 <I>City of Leeds</I> is about to take the train south.<br><br>[K A Gray 17/08/1963]](/images/39000/39766.jpg "Carlisle")
![Upperby shed's Royal Scot no 46118 <I>Royal Welch Fusilier</I> preparing for the off at Carlisle platform 4 on 17 August 1963. The locomotive is about to take out the 8.00am Aberdeen - Manchester.<br><br>[K A Gray 17/08/1963]](/images/43000/43696.jpg "Carlisle")
![Wigan based Black 5 45449 stands alongside Carlisle's platform 4 on 24 August 1963. The locomotive has recently taken over train 1M21, the 10.35am summer Saturday Glasgow Central - Blackpool.<br><br>[K A Gray 24/08/1963]](/images/57000/57282.jpg "Carlisle")
![Britannia Pacific 70022 <I>Tornado</I> at Carlisle in the summer of 1963.<br><br>[K A Gray 24/08/1963]](/images/57000/57597.jpg "Carlisle")
![Stanier 'Coronation' Pacific no 46225 <I>Duchess of Gloucester</I> awaits her departure time from Carlisle's platform 3 on Saturday 31 August 1963. The locomotive has just taken charge of the 9am Perth - Euston train.<br><br>[K A Gray 31/08/1963]](/images/32000/32765.jpg "Carlisle")
![Had the locomotive been carrying a smokebox number plate it would have read 70000. Platform 1 at Carlisle on Saturday 7 September 1963 playing host to the eponymous Britannia Pacific herself, a Crew North locomotive at that time, recently arrived with a Halton - Newcastle military special. <br><br>[K A Gray 07/09/1963]](/images/53000/53280.jpg "Carlisle")
![Stanier <I>Coronation</I> Pacific no 46248 <I>City of Leeds</I> getting all steamed up on the centre road at Carlisle waiting to take over the 10.10am Edinburgh Princes Street - Birmingham New Street on 21 December 1963. The Pacific was withdrawn from Crewe North in September of the following year and cut up at Cashmores, Great Bridge, in November 1964.<br><br>[K A Gray /12/1963]](/images/25000/25100.jpg "Carlisle")
![A touch of steam! South end of Carlisle in December 1963 with Black 5 no 45478 having brought an Edinburgh - Birmingham train into platform 4 alongside a pair of Coronation Pacifics standing on the centre road. The Pacifics are 46240 <I>City of Coventry</I>, which will relieve the Black 5 and 46237 <I>City of Bristol</I> waiting to take over the up <I>Royal Scot</I>.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 28/12/1963]](/images/22000/22557.jpg "Carlisle")
![Stanier <I>Coronation</I> Pacific no 46237 <I>City of Bristol</I> takes the up <I>Royal Scot</I> out of Carlisle on a dull and overcast day in December 1963.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 28/12/1963]](/images/25000/25329.jpg "Carlisle")
![Scene at the south end of a rain soaked Carlisle station on 28 December 1963. From left to right are D323 with a Glasgow - Liverpool train, 46240 <I>City of Coventry</I>, the tender of 46225 <I>Duchess of Gloucester</I> and 47326, the station pilot.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 28/12/1963]](/images/25000/25916.jpg "Carlisle")
![Stanier Pacific no 46225 <I>Duchess of Gloucester</I> runs into a rain soaked Carlisle station on 28 December 1963 with a down parcels train.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 28/12/1963]](/images/30000/30911.jpg "Carlisle")
![A dismal-looking day at the south end of Carlisle on 28 December 1963 sees activity at platforms 3 & 4, with a pair of Stanier Pacifics having recently taken over WCML trains for the south. On the left no 46237 <I>City of Bristol</I> prepares to take out the up <I>Royal Scot</I> while on the right no 46240 <I>City of Coventry</I> has just backed onto an Edinburgh Waverley - Birmingham New Street service.<br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 28/12/1963]](/images/32000/32432.jpg "Carlisle")
![Pacifics in the rain. View south from below the platform 4 canopy at Carlisle during a downpour on 28 December 1963. The photograph shows relief locomotives 46237 <I>City of Bristol</I> (left) awaiting the arrival of the up <I>Royal Scot</I>, with sister locomotive 46240 <I>City of Coventry</I>, waiting to take forward the following Edinburgh - Birmingham New Street.<br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 28/12/1963]](/images/35000/35783.jpg "Carlisle")
![Scene at Upperby around 1964, showing an unidentified Stanier 8F with a down freight heading for Bog Junction or London Road. <br><br>[K A Gray //1964]](/images/32000/32191.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![View south at Upperby in 1964, with Fowler 4F 0-6-0 no 44081 alongside its home shed. In the background a Stanier 8F is approaching with a down freight. [See image 32191]<br><br>[K A Gray //1964]](/images/50000/50107.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Stanier Pacific 46250 <I>City of Lichfield</I> at Carlisle in 1964 about to take out the 9.00am Perth - Euston train from platform 3.<br><br>[K A Gray 29/02/1964]](/images/23000/23778.jpg "Carlisle")
![Stanier Pacific no 46250 <I>City of Lichfield</I> awaits 'the off' on a damp February morning at Carlisle in 1964. The locomotive is about to take out the 9am Perth - Euston.<br><br>[K A Gray 29/02/1964]](/images/34000/34634.jpg "Carlisle")
![Stanier <I>Princess</I> Pacific no 46200 <I>The Princess Royal</I> (or most of her) stands in a siding at Carlisle Upperby shed in March 1964 having been officially withdrawn by BR in November 1962. It was almost two years from withdrawal to eventual disposal at the hands of Messrs Connell & Co of Coatbridge, in October 1964. <br><br>[K A Gray 07/03/1964]](/images/24000/24299.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![46225 <I>Duchess of Gloucester</I> photographed in the yard at Carlisle Upperby shed on 7 March 1964.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/03/1964]](/images/30000/30242.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Fowler 3F 0-6-0T 47614 alongside Carlisle no 12 box in March 1964 about to cross onto Upperby shed.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/03/1964]](/images/32000/32143.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Stanier Coronation Pacific no 46225 <I>Duchess of Gloucester</I> stands alongside Carlisle no 12 signal box on 7 March 1964, shortly after moving off Upperby shed. The locomotive will travel tender first to Carlisle station where it will eventually take over a southbound WCML express.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/03/1964]](/images/36000/36704.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Stoke based Black 5 no 45037 alongside Carlisle no 12 box opposite Upperby shed in March 1964.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/03/1964]](/images/40000/40817.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Scene alongside Carlisle no 12 box on 7 March 1964 as Stanier Pacific no 46225 <I>Duchess of Gloucester</I> moves off Upperby shed heading tender first towards Carlisle station to take over a southbound train.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/03/1964]](/images/45000/45509.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Withdrawn Stanier Princess Pacific no 46200 <I>The Princess Royal</I> stored in the sidings at Upperby in April 1964 awaiting disposal. The locomotive was eventually moved to Coatbridge to be cut up in the Calder scrapyard of Messrs Connell & Co in October of that year.<br><br>[K A Gray 15/04/1964]](/images/48000/48256.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Stanier <I>Coronation</I> Pacific no 46250 <I>City of Lichfield</I> stands in the rain at Carlisle's platform 4 ready to take out special troop train 1X68. <br><br>[K A Gray 30/05/1964]](/images/24000/24068.jpg "Carlisle")
![An up troop train photographed at Carlisle on 30 May 1964. The 10 coach 1X68 special is hauled by Stanier Pacific 46250 <I>City of Lichfield</I>. [Some (unconfirmed) sources suggest the train ran from Wemyss Bay to Euston.] This is one of at least two such specials that passed through Carlisle that day [see image 45618]. <br><br>[K A Gray 30/05/1964]](/images/50000/50714.jpg "Carlisle")
![Rebuilt Merchant Navy Pacific no 35012 <I>United States Lines</I> seen on 13 June 1964 passing Shap Wells with the RCTS <I>Solway Ranger</I> heading for Carlisle.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 13/06/1964]](/images/27000/27237.jpg "Shap Summit")
![Stanier Pacific no 46228 <I>Duchess of Rutland</I> passes Carlisle Upperby with a down parcels train on a wet Wednesday in June 1964.<br><br>[John Robin 17/06/1964]](/images/45000/45758.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Stanier pacific 46200 <I>The Princess Royal</I> stored awaiting disposal in the sidings alongside Upperby shed in June 1964. The locomotive was cut up in the Calder scrapyard of Messrs Connell & Co at Coatbridge, some four months later.<br><br>[John Robin 17/06/1964]](/images/52000/52671.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Edge Hill based <I>Crab</I> 2-6-0 42920 brings a southbound freight past Upperby shed on 17 June 1964. Standing alone on the far right awaiting disposal is Stanier Pacific 46200 <I>The Princess Royal</I> [see image 52671]. <br><br>[John Robin 17/06/1964]](/images/52000/52865.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Stanier Pacific no 46238 <I>City of Carlisle</I> is standby locomotive at Upperby shed on 26 June 1964.<br><br>[John Robin 26/06/1964]](/images/47000/47907.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![BR Standard class 4 4-6-0 75051 in the shed yard at Carlisle Upperby in the summer of 1964. <br><br>[John Robin 27/06/1964]](/images/52000/52735.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Black 5 45006, wearing a 2B, Oxley, shed plate, waits to leave Carlisle platform 5 on 4 July 1964 with the 7.11pm stopping service to Warrington. A DMU for Newcastle Central stands at platform 6.<br><br>[K A Gray 04/07/1964]](/images/49000/49179.jpg "Carlisle")
![Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45736 <I>Phoenix</I> passing Crown Street goods depot on the southern approach to Carlisle in the 1960s with the 3.40pm ex-Bradford. No 45736 was one of the pair of specially rebuilt versions of the class, along with 45735 <I>Comet</I> [see image 23555]. This particular example was withdrawn from Kingmoor in September 1964 and cut up at Hughes Bolckows, North Blyth, the following January. <br><br>[K A Gray 11/07/1964]](/images/29000/29782.jpg "Carlisle")
![One of Blackpool's batch of Jubilees, no 45584 <I>North West Frontier</I>, stands alongside platform 4 at a misty Carlisle station on 11 July 1964. The locomotive had arrived on the 10.35am summer Saturday working from Blackpool Central, with through coaches for Perth and Edinburgh Princes Street and was awaiting the signal to head for Upperby.<br><br>[K A Gray 11/07/1964]](/images/57000/57090.jpg "Carlisle")
![Britannia 70044 <I>Earl Haig</I> at Carlisle platform 4 on 11 July 1964. The Pacific has just taken over the 10.35am summer Saturday Glasgow Central - Blackpool Central. <br><br>[K A Gray 11/07/1964]](/images/57000/57749.jpg "Carlisle")
![Black 5 no 45029 joins BR Standard Pacific no 72007 <I>Clan Mackintosh</I> on the 8am Aberdeen - Manchester train about to leave Carlisle in July 1964. The <I>Clan</I> had brought in the train from the north.<br><br>[K A Gray 18/07/1964]](/images/30000/30936.jpg "Carlisle")
![<I>Patriot</I> class 4-6-0 no 45526 <I>Morecambe and Heysham</I> takes the 2pm Glasgow Central - Manchester / Liverpool train out of Carlisle in the summer of 1964. The locomotive was eventually withdrawn from Carlisle Upperby shed towards the end of that year.<br><br>[K A Gray 25/07/1964]](/images/28000/28714.jpg "Carlisle")
![Stanier Coronation Pacific no 46250 <I>City of Lichfield</I>, recently arrived at Carlisle on 25 July 1964 with a Saturday Birmingham New Street - Glasgow Central relief working.<br><br>[K A Gray 25/07/1964]](/images/42000/42198.jpg "Carlisle")
![A busy Saturday morning scene at the south end of Carlisle station on 25 July 1964. Stanier Pacific 46241 <I>City of Edinburgh</I> is standing at platform 3 with the 0900 Perth - London Euston.<br><br>[K A Gray 25/07/1964]](/images/59000/59252.jpg "Carlisle")
![Royal Scot 46148 <I>The Manchester Regiment</I> stands at the south end of a wet Carlisle station on 22 August 1964 with the 7.11pm stopping train for Warrington Bank Quay.<br><br>[K A Gray 22/08/1964]](/images/23000/23391.jpg "Carlisle")
![Jubilee 45580 <I>Burma</I> manoeuvering empty stock at Carlisle station on 31 August 1964. The Warrington Dallam (8B) based locomotive had arrived earlier that day with the 6am Warrington - Carlisle train.<br><br>[K A Gray 31/08/1964]](/images/44000/44589.jpg "Carlisle")
![Stanier Pacific no 46255 <I>City of Hereford</I> stands at the back of Upperby shed yard in October 1964, the month of its withdrawal from neighbouring Kingmoor. The locomotive was cut up at Arnott Young, Troon, by the end of the year.<br><br>[K A Gray 17/10/1964]](/images/42000/42517.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Withdrawn Stanier Pacific 46244 standing in Upperby yard on a grey October day in 1964 devoid of nameplates that once proclaimed its Royal identity as <I>King George VI</I>. The former LMS streamliner was broken up by Arnott Young in Troon during December that year. [See image 48141]<br><br>[K A Gray 17/10/1964]](/images/57000/57083.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Looking south over Upperby shed in late November 1964. Locomotives in the foreground include 45613, 44461, 46225 and 46237. In the middle distance are two Britannias, with 46238 and 46250 standing to their right.<br><br>[John Robin 28/11/1964]](/images/46000/46233.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![A southbound freight pulls away from Upperby yard, Carlisle, on 28 November 1964 hauled by Warrington (Dallam) based Jubilee no 45655 <I>Keith</I>.<br><br>[John Robin 28/11/1964]](/images/47000/47947.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![A Fairburn 2-6-4T assists a Black 5 with a train near Shap Wells around 1965 [with thanks to Bill Jamieson]. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1965]](/images/28000/28168.jpg "Shap Summit")
![Black 5 4-6-0 no 44731 with a southbound freight on the WCML, thought to have been photographed just south of Wreay around 1965. The freight is conveying a small number of 6-wheel milk tanks immediately behind the locomotive, the residue of what had once been a separate milk train running between Carlisle and Willesden until at least the middle of 1964.<br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1965]](/images/29000/29131.jpg "Wreay")
![70039 <I>Sir Christopher Wren</I> at Carlisle in January 1965 with the 9am Perth - Euston.<br><br>[K A Gray /01/1965]](/images/39000/39139.jpg "Carlisle")
![Royal Scot 4-6-0 no 46152 <I>The King's Dragoon Guardsman</I> at Carlisle on 23 January 1965 waiting to take forward the 9.25am Crewe - Perth train. This locomotive was originally 6100 <I>Royal Scot</I> but was involved in an identity swap with the newly built 6152 in order that the newer locomotive could be sent to the USA in 1933 to be exhibited as 6100.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 23/01/1965]](/images/26000/26213.jpg "Carlisle")
![Britannia Pacific no 70032 <I>Tennyson</I> about to leave Carlisle on 30 January 1965 with the mid morning ex-Glasgow Central / Edinburgh Princes Street train for Birmingham New Street.<br><br>[K A Gray 30/01/1965]](/images/23000/23929.jpg "Carlisle")
![EE Type 4 with a southbound WCML service passing through Wreay cutting, south of Carlisle, in February 1965.<br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 13/02/1965]](/images/23000/23495.jpg "Wreay")
![Royal Scot no 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> takes the RCTS <i>Rebuilt Scot Commemorative Rail Tour</i> south through Wreay cutting, shortly after leaving Carlisle, on 13 February 1965.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 13/02/1965]](/images/23000/23520.jpg "Wreay")
![The RCTS <i>Rebuilt Scot Commemorative Rail Tour</i> southbound from Carlisle on 13 February 1965 photographed running through Wreay cutting on its way back to Crewe. Locomotive in charge is Royal Scot no 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I>. [See image 23520] <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 13/02/1965]](/images/38000/38339.jpg "Wreay")
![The RCTS <I>Rebuilt Scot Commemorative Railtour</I> waits to leave Carlisle platform 4 for Crewe on 13 February 1965. Locomotive in charge is 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I>. [See image 27040]<br><br>[K A Gray 13/02/1965]](/images/45000/45169.jpg "Carlisle")
![Steam and diesel locomotives on Carlisle Upperby shed in the summer of 1965. Nearest the camera is Fowler 4F 0-6-0 no 43953, recorded as being officially withdrawn by BR some four months later. <br><br>[K A Gray 03/07/1965]](/images/49000/49896.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Liverpool based Jubilee no 45698 <I>Mars</I> about to take an afternoon Glasgow/Edinburgh - Manchester/Liverpool train out of Carlisle platform 4 in July 1965.<br><br>[K A Gray 17/07/1965]](/images/28000/28078.jpg "Carlisle")
![73010+45698 <I>Mars</I> standing at Carlisle platform 4 on the afternoon of 17 July 1965 with the combined Glasgow Central/Edinburgh Princes Street - Manchester/Liverpool service.<br><br>[K A Gray 17/07/1965]](/images/38000/38864.jpg "Carlisle")
![The 12.40pm Gourock - Leicester/Manchester <I>CTAC Scottish Tours Express</I> prepares to leave Carlisle platform 4 on Saturday 17 July 1965 behind Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45573 <I>Newfoundland</I>.<br><br>[K A Gray 17/07/1965]](/images/44000/44467.jpg "Carlisle")
![Jubilee 45698 <I>Mars</I> leaves Carlisle on 17 July 1965 with the combined 2pm ex Glasgow Central, 2.5pm ex Edinburgh Princes Street, with through coaches for Manchester and Liverpool.<br><br>[K A Gray 17/07/1965]](/images/55000/55859.jpg "Carlisle")
![Fowler 3F <I>'Jinty'</I> 0-6-0T no 47326 is duty station pilot at Carlisle on 24 July 1965 The locomotive is seen here standing in the sidings on the west side of the station.<br><br>[K A Gray 24/07/1965]](/images/33000/33767.jpg "Carlisle")
![Ex-LMS <I>Jinty</I> no 47326 probably spent as much time as any locomotive under the roof at Carlisle. Seen here taking a break from station pilot duties during a quiet period in July 1965 the 0-6-0T was finally withdrawn by BR from Upperby shed at the end of 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray 31/07/1965]](/images/28000/28627.jpg "Carlisle")
![72007 <I>Clan Mackintosh</I> (minus nameplates) arrives at Carlisle on 31 July 1965 with the 1.26pm Glasgow Central - Morecambe Promenade, which had been routed via Kilmarnock and Dumfries. The Kingmoor based 'Clan' Pacific had less than 5 months to go before eventual withdrawal by BR.<br><br>[K A Gray 31/07/1965]](/images/36000/36385.jpg "Carlisle")
![Jubilee 45697 <I>Achilles</I> stands with <I>Clan</I> Pacific no 72008 <I>Clan MacLeod</I> on the centre road at Carlisle on 7 August 1965, after arriving light engine from Kingmoor shed.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/08/1965]](/images/22000/22874.jpg "Carlisle")
![Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45593 <I>Kolhapur</I> brings the 6.35am Birmingham - Glasgow Central into Carlisle in August 1965.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/08/1965]](/images/29000/29448.jpg "Carlisle")
![The combined 2pm ex-Glasgow Central/2.5pm ex-Edinburgh Princes Street leaves Carlisle on 7 August 1965 with through coaches for Manchester and Liverpool. In charge is Jubilee no 45684 <I>Jutland</I> of Bank Hall shed. <br><br>[K A Gray 07/08/1965]](/images/46000/46835.jpg "Carlisle")
![Jubilee no 45684 <I>Jutland</I>, off Liverpool's Bank Hall shed, with the combined 2pm ex-Glasgow Central/2.5pm ex-Edinburgh Princes Street preparing to leave Carlisle on a fine and sunny Saturday 7 August 1965. The combined train contains through coaches for Liverpool and Manchester.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/08/1965]](/images/54000/54320.jpg "Carlisle")
![A wet summer evening at Carlisle in August 1965 as Black 5 no 44681 stands in south end bay platform 5 awaiting its departure time with the 7.45pm service to Carnforth.<br><br>[K A Gray 14/08/1965]](/images/54000/54771.jpg "Carlisle")
![A thoroughly wet and miserable morning at Carlisle on 21 August 1965 as Warrington (Dallam) Black 5 no 45375 brings the 6am Warrington - Carlisle stopping train into the south end of the station. <br><br>[K A Gray 21/08/1965]](/images/48000/48352.jpg "Carlisle")
![A wet August evening at Carlisle station in 1965 see Black 5 44681 preparing to leave platform 5 with the 1945 stopping service to Carnforth.<br><br>[K A Gray 24/08/1965]](/images/50000/50044.jpg "Carlisle")
![Kingmoor's Britannia Pacific no 70039 <I>Sir Christopher Wren</I> heads south out of Carlisle in January 1965, shortly after taking over the 9am Perth - Euston.<br><br>[K A Gray 30/10/1965]](/images/44000/44298.jpg "Carlisle")
![Britannia Pacific 70054 <I>Dornoch Firth</I> ready to leave Carlisle in 1966 with unidentified southbound working.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/43000/43551.jpg "Carlisle")
![Black 5 45055 approaching Carlisle from the south with a train in 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/52000/52223.jpg "Carlisle")
![One of the 1200hp Co-Bo diesel locomotives, D5701, built by Metropolitan Vickers in 1958 as part of the <I>BR modernisation plan</I>, stands at Carlisle with a southbound train in the 1960s. Notoriously unreliable machines, of the 20 examples in the class, 19 had disappeared by December 1969 (8 to McWilliams, Shettleston and 11 to Cashmores, Great Bridge) with the remaining example now preserved on the East Lancs Railway [see image 18211]. <br><br>[K A Gray 30/07/1966]](/images/23000/23053.jpg "Carlisle")
![Crewe South's Black 5 no 45243 in the west sidings at Carlisle station on 30 July 1966, shortly after arrival from the south with a terminating parcels train.<br><br>[K A Gray 30/07/1966]](/images/41000/41933.jpg "Carlisle")
![Metrovick Co-Bo D5712 at Upperby in 1967.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //1967]](/images/26000/26908.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Start of a shift, Tebay shed, early 1967.<br><br>[Jim Peebles //1967]](/images/30000/30187.jpg "Tebay")
![Shed bash - Upperby, thought to have taken place in 1967. Locomotive is Stanier 8F 48451. The 2-8-0 survived until May 1968 when it was officially withdrawn from Rose Grove shed. [Ref query 50184]<br><br>[Bruce McCartney Collection //1967]](/images/55000/55814.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![The commemorative BR ticket read... <I>A4 Preservation Society Tour - 'The Inaugural Run of Sir Nigel Gresley'</I>.<br> No 4498 was photographed passing Wreay on the outward journey on 1 April 1967. The 12-coach special ran from Crewe to Carlisle via the WCML, returning via Hellifield and Blackburn.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 01/04/1967]](/images/46000/46240.jpg "Wreay")
![Upperby shed yard in April 1967 with 70021 <I>Morning Star</I> nearest the camera and 70015 <I>Apollo</I> beyond.<br><br>[K A Gray 29/04/1967]](/images/38000/38639.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Ivatt 2MT 2-6-0 no 46522 photographed on Upperby shed in April 1967, a month before official withdrawal.<br><br>[K A Gray 29/04/1967]](/images/42000/42159.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![A4 Pacific no 4498 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I>, about to leave the former main line platforms at Carnforth in May 1967 heading for Carlisle following a visit to Crewe works. [Former Railscot mystery image - with belated thanks to Messrs Hillier, Morgan & Mackie] <br><br>[David Spaven /05/1967]](/images/26000/26855.jpg "Carnforth")
![The LCGB <I>Thames - Tyne Limited</I> stands at Carlisle on 3 June 1967. Jubilee 45562 <I>Alberta</I> is about to haul the special as far as Newcastle where 4472 <I>Flying Scotsman</I> will take over for the return leg to Kings Cross. In the background Brush Type 4 no D1837 stands at platform 4 with the up <I>Royal Scot</I>. <br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 03/06/1967]](/images/22000/22224.jpg "Carlisle")
![Scene at Carlisle platform 4 on a summer Saturday in July 1967. Black 5 45227 of Lostock Hall shed is preparing to take out the 11.05 Glasgow Central - Blackpool North <br><br>[K A Gray 01/07/1967]](/images/38000/38390.jpg "Carlisle")
![Britannia Pacific no 70023 <I>Venus</I> is about to take the 09.10 summer Saturday Dundee - Blackpool North out of Carlisle on i July 1967.<br><br>[K A Gray 01/07/1967]](/images/42000/42118.jpg "Carlisle")
![Britannia 70023 <I>Venus</I> bides its time on the centre road at Carlisle on 1 July 1967. The Pacific will shortly take over the 9.13am Dundee - Blackpool North.<br><br>[K A Gray 01/07/1967]](/images/46000/46356.jpg "Carlisle")
![Britannia Pacific no 70023 <I>Venus</I> leaves Carlisle for the south on 1 July 1967 after taking charge of the 9.13am Summer Saturday Dundee - Blackpool North.<br><br>[K A Gray 01/07/1967]](/images/47000/47429.jpg "Carlisle")
![Britannia Pacific 70015 <I>Apollo</I> on Upperby shed, thought to be in July 1967, a month before withdrawal. <br><br>[K A Gray 15/07/1967]](/images/41000/41613.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Britannia 70039 <I>Sir Christopher Wren</I> pulls away from Carlisle on 15 July 1967 with train 1M28 (the combined 2pm ex-Glasgow / 2.05pm ex-Edinburgh) for Manchester and Liverpool.<br><br>[K A Gray 15/07/1967]](/images/45000/45967.jpg "Carlisle")
![A summer Saturday relief Kilmarnock - Blackpool North service about to leave Carlisle on 29 July 1967. Kingmoor's Britannia Pacific no 70012 <I>John of Gaunt</I> has recently taken over the train for the journey south.<br><br>[K A Gray 29/07/1967]](/images/47000/47065.jpg "Carlisle")
![70014 <I>Iron Duke</I> waits on the centre road at Carlisle in August 1967. The Pacific is waiting to take forward the combined 2pm ex-Glasgow Central + 2.5pm ex-Edinburgh as the 1M38 for Manchester & Liverpool.<br><br>[K A Gray 05/08/1967]](/images/35000/35384.jpg "Carlisle")
![View south from the footbridge at Upperby in the summer of 1967.<br><br>[K A Gray 05/08/1967]](/images/56000/56858.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Standard Class 4 No. 75027 on Upperby shed in August 1967. The locomotive was held in reserve for banking duties from Tebay, to which shed it was nominally allocated from April 1967 until closure at the very end of the same year. However, with six of the class available at 12E to cover a dwindling number of banking duties, the call never came. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 27/08/1967]](/images/38000/38351.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![BR Standard class 4 no 75027 at Upperby in August 1967, almost eight months after the shed had closed. Contrary to appearances, the locomotive is in store, rather than dumped, and would subsequently move to Carnforth, seeing out the end of steam there in August 1968. Stanier 8F no 48400, nominally allocated to Carnforth but actually in store at 12B, also survived until the end of steam, in this case at Rose Grove shed.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 27/08/1967]](/images/39000/39071.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Black 5 No. 44910 stored at Upperby on 27th August 1967. The painted shed code 8L is prominent on the smokebox door but the loco had been transferred to Kingmoor some weeks earlier on closure of Aintree shed. 44910 was later transferred to Newton Heath from where it was eventually withdrawn in June 1968.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 27/08/1967]](/images/46000/46364.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0 No. 46470 (with classmate 46522 beyond) in store at Carlisle Upperby MPD on Sunday 27th August 1967. Supposedly transferred from Upperby to Kingmoor on the closure of the former at the end of 1966, and withdrawn from 12A in May 1967, it seems very unlikely that the loco had ever left Upperby in the intervening period.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 27/08/1967]](/images/49000/49838.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![A southbound freight leans into the curve at Eamont Bridge on the southern outskirts of Penrith in September 1967 behind Stanier 8F 2-8-0 no 48551. <br><br>[Colin Miller /09/1967]](/images/22000/22150.jpg "Penrith")
![A freight waits for the road in the gathering gloom at Penrith in September 1967. Stanier 8F no 48169 of 55D Royston had only a short time left, as did its home shed on the northern edge of Barnsley which closed two months later.<br><br>[Colin Miller /09/1967]](/images/25000/25297.jpg "Penrith")
![70023 <I>Venus</I> takes a northbound special past the loops at Eamont Bridge Junction (the former direct link to the Keswick line) south of Penrith station in September 1967.<br><br>[Colin Miller 25/09/1967]](/images/21000/21956.jpg "Eamont Bridge Junction")
![The 1516 Carnforth - Carlisle DMU passes the former Eamont Bridge Junction, just south of Penrith, in September 1967. The trackbed on the right is the remains of the south to west link from the Lancaster and Carlisle at Eamont Bridge Junction to the Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith at Redhills Junction, put in by the North Eastern Railway in 1866 to provide through running between the east and west coasts via the Stainmore line. The link was closed in 1936.<br><br>[Colin Miller 25/09/1967]](/images/22000/22169.jpg "Eamont Bridge Junction")
![Brush Type 4 D1856 brings the up Royal Scot through the loops at Eamont Bridge in September 1967, passing the site of the former junction for the Keswick/Workington line.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 25/09/1967]](/images/22000/22192.jpg "Eamont Bridge Junction")
![EE Type 4 no D335 heads north approaching Penrith at Eamont Bridge Junction in September 1967 hauling a partially-fitted mineral train.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 25/09/1967]](/images/22000/22705.jpg "Eamont Bridge Junction")
![Britannia Pacific 70021 (formerly <I>Morning Star</I>) heads north past Eamont Bridge Junction, approaching Penrith, with a parcels train in September 1967. The locomotive was withdrawn from Kingmoor shed 3 months later and cut up at Wards, Inverkeithing, in April 1968.<br><br>[Colin Miller 25/09/1967]](/images/23000/23303.jpg "Eamont Bridge Junction")
![Black 5 no 45212 heading north with a special at Eamont Bridge Junction, just south of Penrith station, in September 1967. The photograph is taken from the trackbed of the former link to Redhills Junction and the Keswick line.<br><br>[Colin Miller 25/09/1967]](/images/27000/27844.jpg "Eamont Bridge Junction")
![A northbound train speeds past Eamont Bridge Junction on the West Coast Main Line in September 1967 hauled by an EE Type 4 locomotive . <br><br>[Colin Miller 25/09/1967]](/images/29000/29473.jpg "Eamont Bridge Junction")
![A northbound Brush Type 4 passes Eamont Bridge Junction in September 1967 with an Edinburgh/Glasgow train.<br><br>[Colin Miller 25/09/1967]](/images/45000/45549.jpg "Eamont Bridge Junction")
![An unidentified Brush Type 4 takes a northbound west coast main line express past the site of Eamont Bridge Junction on the approach to Penrith in September 1967.<br><br>[Colin Miller 25/09/1967]](/images/45000/45737.jpg "Eamont Bridge Junction")
![Kingmoor Britannia Pacific no 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> about to take a southbound football special out of Carlisle bound for Blackpool on Boxing Day 1967. The locomotive was officially withdrawn by BR the following year and is now preserved. (Robin Barbour is standing on the right of the picture) <br>
<br><br>[K A Gray 26/12/1967]](/images/27000/27487.jpg "Carlisle")
![Boxing Day 1967 in Carlisle... and what better way to help shake off those Christmas excesses than to head off to a football match - in this case a Football League Division 2 clash away to Blackpool. Britannia Pacific no 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> prepares to take out the Carlisle United football special packed with fans who would help to make up the crowd of 20,000+ at Bloomfield Road that day who witnessed an entertaining 1-1 draw.<br>
<br><br>[K A Gray 26/12/1967]](/images/33000/33147.jpg "Carlisle")
![4498 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I>, fresh from Crewe Works, heading north through Carnforth in May 1968 bound for Carlisle. The A4's ultimate destination was Glasgow, where the locomotive was due to haul an A4 Society special from Central on 20 May. [see image 20388]<br><br>[David Spaven //1968]](/images/26000/26242.jpg "Carnforth")
![A motley collection - photographed at Carnforth in 1968.<br><br>[David Spaven //1968]](/images/26000/26479.jpg "Carnforth")
![Metrovick D5716 stands on Carnforth shed in 1968.<br><br>[Jim Peebles //1968]](/images/30000/30049.jpg "Carnforth")
![BR Standard class 9F 2-10-0 no 92091 photographed at Carnforth in 1968. As with many locomotives around the end of the steam era, number plate, shed plate etc have been removed and replaced by paint. Following 'official' withdrawal in May 1968, no 92091 was finally cut up at Wards, Beighton, on 30 November, exactly 12 years after it first emerged from Swindon Works.<br><br>[Jim Peebles //1968]](/images/30000/30633.jpg "Carnforth")
![With its connecting rods removed, withdrawn BR Standard class 9F 2-10-0 no 92091 stands outside Carnforth shed in the summer of 1968 awaiting the final trip to the breaker's yard. The 9Fs seemed to epitomise the rush to get rid of steam, being highly regarded locomotives, but withdrawn after very short lives. The lines on which 92091 and the other locos are standing now form part of the West Coast diesel depot and have been partly covered. From the elevated footpath that runs behind the trees, examples of classes 03, 08, 33, 37 and 47 can still usually be glimpsed. <br><br>[David Hindle //1968]](/images/32000/32197.jpg "Carnforth")
![1968 view of Carnforth MPD, with 8F 48324 and 5MT 45226 on one of the coaling roads. View from the west side of the shed with the town in the background. [See image 32541]<br><br>[David Hindle //1968]](/images/32000/32540.jpg "Carnforth")
![Black 5 no 45310 in the yard at Carnforth in 1968.<br><br>[David Spaven //1968]](/images/32000/32679.jpg "Carnforth")
![Scene at Carnforth in 1968, with newly rescued Fairburn LMS 4MT 2-6-4T 42085 and BR Standard 4MT 4-6-0 75027 stored on one of the shed roads. The tank engine would stay in the North West on the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway but 75027 was destined for the Bluebell Railway where it stilll operates. <br><br>[David Hindle //1968]](/images/32000/32876.jpg "Carnforth")
![45342 gets the road with a freight at the north end of Carnforth station in 1968.<br><br>[David Spaven //1968]](/images/32000/32995.jpg "Carnforth")
![Black 5 no 44781 stands on Carnforth shed in 1968. In common with many surviving locomotives towards the end of steam, number plate, shed plate and any other removable mementoes have long 'disappeared', in this case replaced by white paint. While the shed code 9K shown here refers to Bolton shed, the locomotive spent its last days at 10A Carnforth. 44781, along with classmate 44871, was one of the last BR operational steam locomotives and said its goodbyes on the <I>Fifteen Guinea Special</I> on 11 August 1968, the day before the official BR main line steam ban came into force [see image 30382]. 44781 was officially withdrawn from Carnforth shed by BR at the end of that month. While 44871 ended up in preservation, no 44781 became a (temporary) film star, appearing in the film 'The Virgin Soldiers'. Unforunately it was 'wrecked' as part of the film and cut up on site afterwards.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1968]](/images/33000/33564.jpg "Carnforth")
![A4 no 4498 <I>'Sir Nigel Gresley'</I> moves slowly into position under the coaling plant at Carnforth shed in 1968.<br><br>[David Spaven //1968]](/images/39000/39620.jpg "Carnforth")
![BR Scottish Region <I>Grand Rail Tour no 5</I> at Carnforth on 1 June 1968. D1773 had brought in the special from Edinburgh and would hand over to 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> for the next part of the tour as far as Guide Bridge.<br><br>[John Robin 01/06/1968]](/images/45000/45553.jpg "Carnforth")
![Locally based Black 5 no 45435 runs north through Carnforth station on 1 June 1968 with a freight.<br><br>[John Robin 01/06/1968]](/images/45000/45995.jpg "Carnforth")
![Photograph taken from a carriage window of <I>Scottish Grand Tour no 5</I> on the WCML near Carnforth on 1 June 1968. Lostock Hall Black 5 44942 is approaching from the south with a parcels train.<br><br>[John Robin 01/06/1968]](/images/51000/51549.jpg "Carnforth")
![Black 5 45435 brings a northbound freight through Carnforth station on 1 June 1968.<br><br>[John Robin 01/06/1968]](/images/51000/51898.jpg "Carnforth")
![The end is nigh...View across Carnforth MPD in 1968.<br><br>[John Mcintyre 13/06/1968]](/images/15000/15794.jpg "Carnforth")
![Looking south from the cab of a 9F along one of the lines of withdrawn locomotives at Carnforth on 13 June 1968. In the middle distance under the footbridge are the two Fairburn 2-6-4Ts nos 42073 & 42085, Ivatt 2-6-0 no 6441 and LNER B1 no 1306, all of which were privately owned by that time and on site for restoration/repair work.<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/06/1968]](/images/19000/19412.jpg "Carnforth")
![Black 5 no 45134 ambles past the breakdown train in the yards at Carnforth on 13 June 1968.<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/06/1968]](/images/19000/19423.jpg "Carnforth")
![Out on one of the scrap sidings to the north of Carnforth shed BR Standard 4 4-6-0 no 75034 in remarkably clean condition languishes on 13 June 1968 awaiting its fate. Built in July 1953, withdrawn in February 1968 at Carnforth, it was cut up at TW Ward, Inverkeithing 5 months later.<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/06/1968]](/images/19000/19453.jpg "Carnforth")
![The BR <I>'Fifteen Guinea Special'</I> was billed as the final standard gauge main line passenger train to be hauled by a steam locomotive on British Rail. It ran on Sunday 11 August 1968, the day before the introduction of the main line steam ban. The photograph shows 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> (the last steam locomotive to be overhauled by BR) following its arrival at Carlisle with the special. <br>
<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 11/08/1968]](/images/26000/26044.jpg "Carlisle")
![Large crowds turn out at Carlisle station on 11 August 1968 to see the BR <I>Fifteen Guinea Special</I>, billed as <I>the final main line passenger train to be hauled by a steam locomotive on British Rail</I> (the BR main line 'steam ban' came into force the following day). The special had arrived from Liverpool & Manchester via the S&C hauled by 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> [see image 26044] and at this point was being made ready for the return journey behind Black Fives 44781+44871.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 11/08/1968]](/images/30000/30346.jpg "Carlisle")
![Black Fives 44781+44871 stand at Carlisle station with the BR <I>Fifteen Guinea Special</I> on 11 August 1968. The train is about to start the return journey to Manchester and Liverpool on the day prior to the introduction of BR's main line 'steam ban'. [See image 30346]<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 11/08/1968]](/images/30000/30382.jpg "Carlisle")
![Britannia Pacific 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> arriving at Carlisle on 11 August 1968 with the BR <I>'Fifteen Guinea Special'</I>. The special was billed at the time as the final standard gauge main line passenger train to be hauled by a steam locomotive on British Rail. [See image 47039]<br><br>[D Walker Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] 11/08/1968]](/images/47000/47133.jpg "Carlisle")
![<I>The Moorlands Rail Tour</I> from Liverpool Lime Street approaching Carlisle on 26 October 1968 behind A3 Pacific 4472 <I>Flying Scotsman</I>.<br><br>[K A Gray 26/10/1968]](/images/45000/45237.jpg "Carlisle")
![Train 1S57 the down <I>Royal Scot</I> seen climbing Shap at Shap Wells in 1969.<br><br>[Jim Peebles //1969]](/images/30000/30360.jpg "Shap")
![Preserved Ivatt 2-6-0 no 6441 on display at Carnforth in the summer of 1970.<br><br>[Jim Peebles //1970]](/images/31000/31471.jpg "Carnforth")
![Empty stock train approaching Carnforth station on the up main line on 9 May 1970 with D425 in charge. The WTT of the day shows 5M20 as being the 11.50 Perth to Carlisle Yard ECS, but it evidently ran much further south than that. <br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 09/05/1970]](/images/35000/35965.jpg "Carnforth")
![On a fine May evening in 1970, EE Type 4 No. 353 stands <br>
in the down WCML platform at Carnforth waiting to take participants in 'Scottish Grand Tour No. 10' back to Edinburgh. Main line trains had ceased to call at Carnforth with effect from the start of the new timetable the previous Monday and this was expected to be the last passenger working to use the platform.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 09/05/1970]](/images/36000/36161.jpg "Carnforth")
![After visiting Ravenglass on 9 May 1970, Scottish Grand Tour No. 10 retraced its steps to Carnforth, where enthusiasts were able to visit Steamtown. Photograph taken from the footbridge giving access off Warton Road, showing preserved Black 5 No. 44871 in steam in the shed yard. [Railscot note: By coincidence the young man in the brown coat to the left of the small group alongside the cab is Railscot contributor Jim Peebles!] <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 09/05/1970]](/images/36000/36506.jpg "Carnforth")
![After the closure of Carnforth MPD and its resurrection as 'Steamtown', sidings to the east of the shed were still used by BR for stabling a handful of locos. On the early evening of Saturday 9th May 1970, these included Brush Type 4 No. 1609 and BR Sulzer Type 2 No. 7635. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 09/05/1970]](/images/36000/36793.jpg "Carnforth")
![Scene at Carnforth during Scottish Grand Tour No. 10 on 9 May 1970. While the excursionists from Edinburgh visited Steamtown (or possibly a local pub), EE Type 4 No. D353 had run round the train and is seen here re-entering Carnforth Station. Departure homewards took place at 19:00.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 09/05/1970]](/images/37000/37023.jpg "Carnforth")
![Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 no 44871 at Carnforth in August 1970. Carnforth Station Junction signal box stands in the background.<br><br>[Jim Peebles /08/1970]](/images/31000/31549.jpg "Carnforth")
![Black 5 no 5231 stands on Carnforth shed in August 1970.<br><br>[Jim Peebles /08/1970]](/images/31000/31646.jpg "Carnforth")
![A class 50 takes a southbound train out of Carlisle in 1970.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/09/1970]](/images/3000/3463.jpg "Carlisle")
![The southern approach to Carlisle in May 1971, with a class 50 hauled WCML service approaching the station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/05/1971]](/images/4000/4141.jpg "Carlisle")
![A murky Monday in May 1971 sees a pair of EE Class 50s lifting a mid-morning Glasgow Central - London Euston train out of Carlisle station. The train is about to cross the bridge over the goods lines. [See image 5345]<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/05/1971]](/images/40000/40965.jpg "Carlisle")
![A pair of class 50s hauling train 1M20 the up <I>'Royal Scot'</I> taking the middle road through Lancaster station on 10 September 1971.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/09/1971]](/images/4000/4355.jpg "Lancaster")
![<I>The Wedding Party</I> - Carlisle 1971. Peak no 30 is about to depart for Leeds via the S&C while 444 stands in bay platform 5 beyond at the head of a Carlisle - Euston train. The bride and groom have just left for Edinburgh.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/09/1971]](/images/2000/2443.jpg "Carlisle")
![Looking back to Carnforth from a southbound train crossing from the Furness lines in May 1972. Several diesel locomotives are in the yard with the old 10A shed on the left of the picture. A start has been made on extending WCML electrification north with masts in place but no overhead conductor wires yet attached. <br><br>[John McIntyre 30/05/1972]](/images/17000/17897.jpg "Carnforth")
![View of Carnforth from a Barrow - Preston train entering the station on 30 May 1972. The smoke to the left of the coaling tower is from preserved Ivatt 2-6-0 6441 which was moving down the yard from the old MPD.<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/05/1972]](/images/17000/17903.jpg "Carnforth")
![Class 50 no 405 at Carlisle platform 4 with a southbound train on 30 May 1972. <br><br>[John McIntyre 30/05/1972]](/images/20000/20281.jpg "Carlisle")
![A pair of class 50 locomotives, with 433 leading, arrives at Carlisle platform 3 with a northbound service on a wet 30 May 1972. <br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/05/1972]](/images/20000/20346.jpg "Carlisle")
![Looking still very new, Carlisle powerbox on 30 May 1972. The sign on the right announces that the work by Westinghouse Brake and Signal is for the Inter-City electrification from London to Glasgow.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/05/1972]](/images/22000/22655.jpg "Carlisle")
![Doing what they were built to do - a pair of class 50s with the Down <I>Royal Scot</I> arriving at Carlisle in 1973, one of several accelerated Anglo - Scottish services introduced prior to completion of the Weaver Junction - Glasgow electrification project.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/06/1973]](/images/6000/6327.jpg "Carlisle")
![Preserved Black 5 (though actually a 'Green 5' at the time) No. 44932 passes Carnforth East Junction box heading towards Leeds at just after 6pm on 21 September 1974. The train is the 'White Rose' railtour on its way back to Leicester. The Carnforth - Leeds leg of this tour was booked for No. 4771 Green Arrow, which had taken the 'Red Rose' tour from Leeds to Ravenglass earlier that day, but the V2 had failed after arrival light engine back at Carnforth.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 21/09/1974]](/images/38000/38197.jpg "Carnforth")
![Chapelon Pacific 231 K 22 at Steamtown, Carnforth, circa 1975.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1975]](/images/22000/22023.jpg "Carnforth")
![4472 <I>Flying Scotsman</I>, photographed at 'Steamtown', Carnforth, in 1975.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1975]](/images/31000/31716.jpg "Carnforth")
![Scene at Steamtown, Carnforth, in 1975. Preserved 0-6-0T in GCR livery - details unknown.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1975]](/images/42000/42803.jpg "Carnforth")
![Front end of DB Class 01 pacific 012 104-6 photographed in the shed at Steamtown, Carnforth, in October 1975.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/10/1975]](/images/3000/3688.jpg "Carnforth")
![Former DB Pacific 012 104-6 with a DB Class 80 0-6-0 in the background, photographed at Carnforth in 1976.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //1976]](/images/26000/26889.jpg "Carnforth")
![Looking as if it is heading for Paris at full speed, but actually on the demonstration line at Steamtown, is SNCF 231 K 22. This Pacific dated from 1920 and had worked until 1966. At this time it was owned by the late Dr Peter Beet, who rescued many steam locomotives, but it subsequently moved to a German heritage line.<br><br>[David Hindle //1976]](/images/31000/31956.jpg "Carnforth")
![At Steamtown Carnforth Summer 1976. Given the name 'Mayflower' which actually belonged to the scrapped (6)1379.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //1976]](/images/54000/54819.jpg "Carnforth")
![GWR Hall (Raveningham Hall, I think, No. 6960) at Carnforth. I didn't note it, but it appears to be the only possibility! Someone more famous lurks in the background.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1976]](/images/54000/54994.jpg "Carnforth")
![4472 <I>Flying Scotsman</I> at Steamtown Carnforth on the fine morning of Saturday 8th May 1976 prior to working the M&GNJRS <I>'Lakelander'</I> railtour to Sellafield. 'Hardwicke' acted as pilot as far as Ulverston where B1 No (6)1306 took over the assisting role.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 08/05/1976]](/images/37000/37565.jpg "Carnforth")
![4472 <I>Flying Scotsman</I> stands alongside the ash plant at Steamtown in May 1976 prior to working a special to Sellafield [see image 37565]. With the amount of ash generated in the preservation era being only a small fraction of that produced in BR days, the services of the plant and its associated paraphernalia were no longer required.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 08/05/1976]](/images/37000/37843.jpg "Carnforth")
![Preserved Black 5 No. 45407 posing in front of the shed at Steamtown, Carnforth, on Saturday 8th May 1976.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 08/05/1976]](/images/38000/38113.jpg "Carnforth")
![Despite appearances, this is not a c.1948 scene at some LNER shed, but Steamtown Carnforth in 1976. While I am not a fan of apple green on big engines, the effect in monochrome is quite pleasing on the B1, spoiled only by it carrying a fictitious name and number (it was delivered as BR No. 61306 from NBL in April 1948).<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 08/05/1976]](/images/38000/38368.jpg "Carnforth")
![A down train approaching Carlisle platform 3 out of the sun on a bright June afternoon in 1976 behind Holbeck 'Peak' type 4 locomotive no 28.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/06/1976]](/images/1000/1194.jpg "Carlisle")
![A 'Peak' approaching Carlisle from the south in the summer of 1976 on the climb up from London Road and the S&C route.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/06/1976]](/images/4000/4142.jpg "Carlisle")
![Black 5 No. 44871 might be on home territory at Steamtown, Carnforth, but, flanked by <I>'Sir Nigel Gresley'</I> and <I>'Flying Scotsman'</I> in May 1977, it's the one that looks slightly out of place.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 08/05/1977]](/images/37000/37641.jpg "Carnforth")
![Sparkling condition aside, this view of Black 5 No. 44871 at Carnforth Shed could almost have been taken during the BR steam era. In reality the year is 1977 and the loco has already spent the best part of nine years in preservation.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 08/05/1977]](/images/38000/38212.jpg "Carnforth")
![The coaling plant at Carnforth on 8th May 1977.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 08/05/1977]](/images/38000/38552.jpg "Carnforth")
![A head-on view of 'Sir Nigel Gresley' in repose at Steamtown, Carnforth, on 8th May 1977, the weekend after it took up residence there<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 08/05/1977]](/images/38000/38900.jpg "Carnforth")
![Ivatt 2MT 6441 on passenger yard shuttle duty at Steamtown, Carnforth, in 1978. <br><br>[Colin Miller //1978]](/images/42000/42826.jpg "Carnforth")
![Two mini-enthusiasts admire the locomotive on the miniature railway (15' gauge?) that used to run along the western perimeter of the site at Steamtown, Carnforth, passing through the loco shed on the way.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //1979]](/images/31000/31237.jpg "Carnforth")
![Black 5 44932 on yard shuttle duties at Steamtown, Carnforth, in 1979.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1979]](/images/49000/49259.jpg "Carnforth")
![A Kensington Olympia bound <I>Motorail</I> service on the bridge over the goods lines south of Carlisle station in May 1980.<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/05/1980]](/images/6000/6307.jpg "Carlisle")
![83007 stands with empty stock on one of the centre roads at Carlisle on 21 November 1981. In the background a class 108 DMU for the Cumbrian coast line prepares to leave the M&C bay platform.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 21/11/1981]](/images/18000/18462.jpg "Carlisle")
![Class 40 no 40131 with a train boarding in bay platform 5 at Carlisle on 23 July 1982.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 23/07/1982]](/images/46000/46123.jpg "Carlisle")
![26019 flanked by 40106 & 86204 at Carlisle Upperby on 12 September 1982.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 12/09/1982]](/images/20000/20236.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![Prototype DEMU 210 001 on display at an Open Day at Upperby in September 1982. Intended as an eventual replacement for elderly Southern Region units the train was trialled in various parts of the country but never made it into full production and was eventually withdrawn.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 12/09/1982]](/images/21000/21401.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![40122 stands at the south end of Carlisle station in September 1983.<br><br>[Jim Peebles /09/1983]](/images/30000/30614.jpg "Carlisle")
![20067 stands in a line at an Open Day at Carlisle Upperby MPD on 12 September 1983.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 12/09/1983]](/images/20000/20262.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![A pair of class 25s, with a northbound freight on the West Coast Main Line, passing Tebay in 1984<br>
<br><br>[Colin Alexander //1984]](/images/21000/21270.jpg "Tebay")
![Preserved Stanier Black 5 no 44767 (fitted with Stephenson valve gear) stands at Carnforth on 29 April 1984. <br><br>[Peter Todd 29/04/1984]](/images/27000/27112.jpg "Carnforth")
![View from the south-west of Waterside Viaduct on the Ingleton to Low Gill line in September 1984. The viaduct was opened by the LNWR in 1861 and closed to passengers in 1954, with freight traffic continuing until 1966. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 23/09/1984]](/images/41000/41658.jpg "Waterside Viaduct")
![A DMU destined for Skipton via the Settle & Carlisle line, resplendent in <I>Heritage</I> livery, stands at Carlisle station in March 1987<br><br>[David Panton /03/1987]](/images/17000/17069.jpg "Carlisle")
![Arrival from the south at Carlisle. Will be taken forward to Glasgow by 47 as the WCML was closed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/11/1988]](/images/8000/8803.jpg "Carlisle")
![Arrival from the north at Carlisle. Brought by 47 as the WCML was closed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/11/1988]](/images/8000/8804.jpg "Carlisle")
![A busy south end of Carlisle.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/11/1988]](/images/8000/8805.jpg "Carlisle")
![Drawing crowds. Lady Diana Spencer, not on its usual E&G run.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/11/1988]](/images/8000/8806.jpg "Carlisle")
![47 597 comes up from the Newcastle line with a Settle and Carlisle Line train. A great day if you liked 47s.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/11/1988]](/images/8000/8807.jpg "Carlisle")
![An 08 shunting Motorail coaches on a day of class 47s monotony at Carlisle. Exotic.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/11/1988]](/images/8000/8808.jpg "Carlisle")
![The Pennine Executive and friend at Carlisle.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/11/1988]](/images/8000/8809.jpg "Carlisle")
![A southbound 125 takes the Newcastle line at Carlisle.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/11/1988]](/images/8000/8810.jpg "Carlisle")
![Upperby Shed viewed from the west and seen across the WCML in 1989.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/53000/53444.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Shed")
![An immaculate 31537 heads south through Carnforth station with a loaded ballast train on 17 February 1992.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 17/02/1992]](/images/36000/36972.jpg "Carnforth")
![86207 <I>City of Lichfield</I> backs onto DVT 82138 at the head of a southbound <I>InterCity</I> WCML service at Carlisle platform 4 in the spring of 1996.<br><br>[John Furnevel //1996]](/images/21000/21675.jpg "Carlisle")
![156424 nears Oxenholme with a Windermere - Manchester Airport service in January 1996.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /01/1996]](/images/53000/53683.jpg "Oxenholme")
![A down WCML service arrives at Carlisle platform 3 in August 1997 behind BR InterCity liveried 87014 <I>Knight of the Thistle</I>, complete with matching set. Held at signals on the centre road is an EWS class 37 with a lightweight freight.<br><br>[John Furnevel /08/1997]](/images/57000/57849.jpg "Carlisle")
![47741 <i>Resilient</I> in Rail Express Systems livery arriving at Carlisle in August 1997 with an excursion from the south. <br><br>[John Furnevel 11/08/1997]](/images/2000/2739.jpg "Carlisle")
![EWS 37801 passing north through Carlisle with a freight in August 1997.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/08/1997]](/images/5000/5354.jpg "Carlisle")
![Virgin trains WCML service heading north past Harrisons Sidings in 2002.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2002]](/images/17000/17553.jpg "Harrisons Sidings")
![<I>Spirit of Dagenham</I> - not exactly a name to set the pulses racing, although I don't suppose <I>Pretty Polly</I> came into that category eiither! 90037 is stabled in the sidings on the west side of Carlisle station on the afternoon of 13th April 2002.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/04/2002]](/images/43000/43202.jpg "Carlisle")
![Virgin liveried 87020 <I>North Briton</I> stands at the north end of Carlisle in May 2003 shortly after bringing in a terminating service from London Euston.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/05/2003]](/images/44000/44959.jpg "Carlisle")
![A Virgin Voyager heads south past a very quiet Upperby in August 2003, shortly after calling at Carlisle.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/08/2003]](/images/53000/53556.jpg "Carlisle Upperby Holding Sidings")
![A southbound Pendolino arrives at Carlisle on 19 September 2006.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/09/2006]](/images/17000/17428.jpg "Carlisle")
![Northbound Voyager climbing Shap on 18 Feb passing Scout Green.<br><br>[John McIntyre 18/02/2007]](/images/13000/13747.jpg "Scout Green")
![Pendolino climbing Shap on 18 February passing Scout Green on the northbound ascent.<br><br>[John McIntyre 18/02/2007]](/images/13000/13754.jpg "Scout Green")
![Voyager northbound at Scout Green on 18 February.<br><br>[John McIntyre 18/02/2007]](/images/13000/13773.jpg "Scout Green")
![An engineers train hauled by EWS 66098 heads south at Scout Green in February 2007.<br><br>[John McIntyre 18/02/2007]](/images/56000/56950.jpg "Scout Green")
![Glasgow Central - London Euston Pendolino service at Carlisle on 18 April.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/04/2007]](/images/14000/14670.jpg "Carlisle")
![A PW train trundles south through Carlisle station on 18 April 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/04/2007]](/images/14000/14689.jpg "Carlisle")
![90046 with northbound containers through Carlisle station on 18 April. <br><br>[John Furnevel 18/04/2007]](/images/14000/14691.jpg "Carlisle")
![6233 <i>Duchess of Sutherland</i> restarting from the Grayrigg down loop with <I>The Great Britain</I> on 9 April.<br><br>[John McIntyre 9/04/2007]](/images/14000/14445.jpg "Grayrigg")
![6233 <i>Duchess of Sutherland</i> north of Grayrigg on 9 April with <I>The Great Britain</I> railtour heading for Glasgow.<br><br>[John McIntyre 9/04/2007]](/images/14000/14446.jpg "Grayrigg")
![Glasgow - Euston Pendolino calls at Lancaster on 14 July.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/07/2007]](/images/16000/16056.jpg "Lancaster")
![901002/Lab19-Iris 2 (a former class 101 dmu) heads south through Lancaster on 14 July.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/07/2007]](/images/16000/16057.jpg "Lancaster")
![A <I>touch of fog</I> over North Lancs on 13 October as an ethereal 48151 departs Carnforth past the Virtual Quarry sidings. <br><br>[John McIntyre 13/10/2007]](/images/16000/16866.jpg "Carnforth")
![Working hard on the climb up to the site of Scout Green station (behind camera) from Tebay. Weather Hill and Tebay Fell provide a backdrop.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 09/04/2008]](/images/18000/18664.jpg "Scout Green")
![A northbound Pendolino leaving Shap with the the town and Hardendale Quarry as a backdrop.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/04/2008]](/images/18000/18692.jpg "Harrisons Sidings")
![Not far from the former water troughs of Dillicar Common a First service heads south. An interesting comparison in investment at a fairly remote spot; two tracks versus one motorway comprising two roadways of four lanes each.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/04/2008]](/images/18000/18711.jpg "Lune Gorge")
![Were you worried about the load? A double headed Freightliner runs south from Shap Summit ... and it was a longer train than is shown here ...<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/04/2008]](/images/18000/18837.jpg "Shap Summit")
![Varying sizes and shapes of limestone empties from Lackenby run south from Little Strickland on 14 April 2008.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/04/2008]](/images/18000/18852.jpg "Little Strickland")
![Northbound Virgin service near Little Strickland.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/04/2008]](/images/18000/18856.jpg "Little Strickland")
![Virgin service on the former level crossing at Scout Green. View looks south in April 2008.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/04/2008]](/images/18000/18862.jpg "Scout Green")
![Platform 5 at Lancaster Castle is a through road alongside the up line but most services, like 156470 here, arrive from and then depart to the north either for Morecambe or, as in this case, Barrow-in-Furness. View south towards Preston.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 14/07/2008]](/images/19000/19814.jpg "Lancaster")
![<I>Going my way?</I> 185147, arriving from Windermere, buffers up to 185102, from Barrow-in-Furness, in Platform 5 at Lancaster before going forward together as the 1515 to Manchester Airport.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/07/2008]](/images/19000/19944.jpg "Lancaster")
![All trace of Bolton-le-Sands station was swept away between closure in 1969 and electrification in 1974. Here a Pendolino passes the site of the old platforms and approaches the level crossing at speed from Carnforth on a southbound service. View north from the level crossing. Map Ref SD480683<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/08/2008]](/images/20000/20171.jpg "Bolton-le-Sands")
![A Morecambe to Leeds service on its short WCML dash to the junction at Carnforth passes Bolton-le-Sands crossing, which is CCTV controlled from Hest Bank signal box. View south towards Hest Bank. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 07/08/2008]](/images/20000/20178.jpg "Bolton-le-Sands")
![The view south from Lancaster up the bank towards Oubeck and on to Preston. From left to right the tracks, all in regular use, are: Up Passenger loop 2, which rejoins the main line but also continues as a goods loop, Up Passenger loop 1, Up Main, Down Main and Down Passenger loop. Pennine unit 185143 has been stabled in a siding on the down side.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/08/2008]](/images/20000/20266.jpg "Lancaster")
![<I>Not for the faint hearted.</I> 142036 is about to leave Platform 5 at Lancaster as the 0854 to Carlisle via the Cumbria coast with an arrival time scheduled for 1222. It is a wonderful line but 3 hours 28 minutes on a <I>Nodding Donkey</I> is not the best way to see it. Wait for a Sprinter if possible. 130808.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/08/2008]](/images/20000/20297.jpg "Lancaster")
![View south at Penrith station on 16 August 2008.<br><br>[Don Smith 16/08/2008]](/images/20000/20325.jpg "Penrith")
![The imposing station building at Penrith seen on 16 August 2008.<br><br>[Don Smith 16/08/2008]](/images/20000/20328.jpg "Penrith")
![Britannia Pacific No. 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> comes to a stop at Carlisle's platform 3 on 27 August 2008. The train, which purports to be the down 'Thames-Clyde Express', is actually the terminating 'Dalesman' excursion from Hellifield.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 27/08/2008]](/images/40000/40906.jpg "Carlisle")
![Morecambe and Millom services in Platforms 1 and 2 at Lancaster, bays on the down side of the station. 142093 is on the Morecambe run and 156454 is waiting to depart for Millom via Barrow in Furness.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/09/2008]](/images/20000/20538.jpg "Lancaster")
![Mail train carrying the cheque and postal order south from Scout Green.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 09/09/2008]](/images/20000/20766.jpg "Scout Green")
![Although the Lancaster Canal runs near to the WCML for much of its length this bridge just south of Lancaster Castle station is the only point where the active section of the canal crosses the railway. A northbound Trans Pennine 185 unit drops down the bank towards its stop at Lancaster on 10 September. (Map Ref SD 474609)<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 10/09/2008]](/images/21000/21135.jpg "Lancaster")
![<I>Horse Creep?</I> As boats were legged through the Hincaster canal tunnel the horses had to cross the railway and go over the hill on a path that is still open. This low bridge takes the path under the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway/WCML although the floor has built up and it would be tricky to get a large animal through these days. Map Reference SD 513851<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/11/2008]](/images/21000/21298.jpg "Hincaster Junction")
![Plaque at the western entrance to the Hincaster canal tunnel, disused since around 1947 although there are formative plans to reopen the section of canal north of Carnforth.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/11/2008]](/images/21000/21300.jpg "Hincaster Junction")
![When the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway had to cross the northern section of the Lancaster Canal the Hincaster canal tunnel was conveniently situated to carry the line on up to Oxenholme. This is the western portal of the disused structure. SD 509851<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/11/2008]](/images/21000/21302.jpg "Hincaster Junction")
![<I>So that's why they call it the West Coast Main Line.</I> 66510 and a long train of coal empties skirt Morecambe Bay while heading north at Hest Bank. The line trailing in behind the locomotive is the link from Bare Lane, now used by nuclear trains from Heysham Power Station and (from 2009) two passenger services each weekday.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 12/11/2008]](/images/21000/21436.jpg "Hest Bank")
![The view of Morecambe Bay from the train opens out as a Manchester Airport TPE service, formed by 185124, approaches the level crossing at Hest Bank. This gives access to the foreshore area that can be seen above the signal box. The view from the footbridge is towards Bolton-le-Sands, where another level crossing is also controlled from Hest Bank.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 15/11/2008]](/images/21000/21475.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Middleton-on-Lune, on the former Low Gill to Clapham line, served a rural district rather than any particular settlement and closed in 1931, 23 years before the other stations on the line. The station building still stands alongside the A683 road. Map ref SD 626882. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 31/01/2009]](/images/22000/22328.jpg "Middleton-on-Lune")
![The old Clapham to Low Gill trackbed seen just outside Ingleton (L&C/LNWR) looking north towards Kirkby Lonsdale from an old overbridge. Local passenger services ceased in 1954 but the line remained in use for freight and diversions until 1966, on occasions seeing Peak hauled Thames Clyde Expresses passing through.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 31/01/2009]](/images/22000/22500.jpg "Ingleton (LandC/LNWR)")
![To the north side of Ingleton gorge was the Lancaster and Carlisle, later LNWR, station. Once the dispute between the Midland and LNWR over through running was resolved this station became redundant although it did not finally close until 1916. The station site is now a depot, situated just beyond the trees in this view south from an old overbridge.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 31/01/2009]](/images/22000/22501.jpg "Ingleton (LandC/LNWR)")
![A brace of DRS Class 20s brings a railtour from Birmingham into Carlisle.<br><br>[John Robin 07/02/2009]](/images/22000/22399.jpg "Carlisle")
![Railtours occupy the platforms at Citadel station on a day when all Anglo-Scottish services were supplied by buses. The station, city and its watering holes were kept busy for a few hours by enthusiasts.<br><br>[John Robin 07/02/2009]](/images/22000/22409.jpg "Carlisle")
![A Pendoline speeds south past the still well used loops, and <I>double slip crossing</I> points at Carnforth in February 2009. On the left a small platform can be seen. This was Crag Bank Halt and was used for the steam shuttle passenger services when Steamtown was still open to the public. West Coast Railway Company stored stock can be seen in the private sidings and the old coaling tower stands beyond. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/02/2009]](/images/22000/22483.jpg "Carnforth")
![Freightliner 66513 heads north through Carlisle station with coal empties on 19 February 2009.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 19/02/2009]](/images/22000/22613.jpg "Carlisle")
![A Pendolino pulls into platform 4 at Carlisle in February 2009 with a southbound service.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 19/02/2009]](/images/22000/22619.jpg "Carlisle")
![Virgin <I>Thunderbirds</I> 57302 <I>Virgil Tracy</I> and 57311 <I>Parker</I> stand in the sidings on the west side of Carlisle station on 19 February 2009.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Alexander 19/02/2009]](/images/22000/22656.jpg "Carlisle")
![Sixty years after closure in 1950 Burton and Holme station still stands alongside the West Coast mainline and is now a private residence. Situated around one mile west of Burton village, and one mile south of Holme, the station was more or less in the middle of nowhere leading to its early closure. Map reference SD 522774 <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 14/03/2009]](/images/22000/22857.jpg "Burton and Holme")
![The wind gauge on Hest Bank signal box was spinning furiously on a very blustery day as 144012 passed on a Morecambe to Leeds service. The gauge was installed when this exposed stretch of line was electrified. If wind speeds rise above a certain level the trains run slowly at caution to protect the overhead catenary. Behind the box the foreshore can be seen, the sands of Morecambe Bay at low tide and, in the distance, the Cumbrian coast near Kents Bank. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/03/2009]](/images/22000/22958.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Some two miles north of the famous summit, Shap station building still stands alongside the Down line as a private residence, seen here looking north in March 2009. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/03/2009]](/images/23000/23076.jpg "Shap")
![Stanier Pacific 6233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> about to take the <I>Cumbrian Mountain Express</I> south out of Carlisle platform 3 on 28 March 2009.<br><br>[Brian Smith 28/03/2009]](/images/23000/23031.jpg "Carlisle")
![Having restarted from a stop in the Down loop 46115 gets the <I>Great Britain II</I> railtour underway again and pounds up the bank through Oxenholme station. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 09/04/2009]](/images/23000/23194.jpg "Oxenholme")
![46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> pulls its 11 coaches out of Oxenholme down loop on 9 April 2009 to continue its journey north with the Preston to Glasgow leg of the <i>Great Britain II</I> railtour. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 09/04/2009]](/images/23000/23196.jpg "Oxenholme")
![Branch line connection made. Windermere bound Transpennine unit 185143 waits under the trainshed at Oxenholme as a Pendolino stops in the Up line platform. The Windermere branch drops down to Kendal from the junction before its scenic climb to the terminus.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 09/04/2009]](/images/23000/23219.jpg "Oxenholme")
![As 390008 leaves Oxenholme for Euston a Voyager stops, on its way to Scotland, to connect with the Windermere branch train. The line in the foreground is the branch connection with the down line. The camber of the main line tracks as they curve through the station can clearly be seen. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 09/04/2009]](/images/23000/23269.jpg "Oxenholme")
![Access to Lancaster station from the western side of the line on 12 April 2009<br><br>[John McIntyre 12/04/2009]](/images/23000/23532.jpg "Lancaster")
![Looking north from the road bridge at Lancaster station on 12 April 2009. The covered walkway between the eastern and western parts of the station can be seen in this photograph. Platform 3 for northbound services is on the left and Platform 4 for souhbound services on the right. Platforms 1 & 2 are the north facing bays beyond the building on the left and platform 5 is a loop beyond the building on the right.<br><br>[John McIntyre 12/04/2009]](/images/23000/23539.jpg "Lancaster")
![Carlisle Bridge, Lancaster, carrying the West Coast Main Line over the River Lune and seen here at High Tide from St. Georges Quay on the south side. The bridge was substantially rebuilt in the 1960s and a footbridge added to the east side as seen here. The southbound Pendolino is slowing for the Lancaster stop. The old Morecambe to Lancaster Green Ayre line passed under an arch of this bridge on the far bank. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 07/05/2009]](/images/23000/23579.jpg "Lancaster")
![46115 'Scots Guardsman' on the Preston to Carlisle leg of the 'Scot over Shap' railtour from Birmingham on 09 May 09. The train is seen running at speed at the south end of Oxenholme station, looking and sounding very impressive.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/05/2009]](/images/23000/23611.jpg "Oxenholme")
![At the end of the outward leg of its journey, 46115 'Scots Guardsman' coasts into Carlisle on 9 May 2009 with the 'Scot over Shap' railtour.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/05/2009]](/images/23000/23616.jpg "Carlisle")
![A northbound Pendolino calls at Oxenholme on 09 May 2009. The Windermere branch platform is to the left of the train.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/05/2009]](/images/26000/26871.jpg "Oxenholme")
![Only two passenger trains a day traverse the Bare Lane to Hest Bank chord - the 0551 and the 1620 from Morecambe. No contest then for which one to photograph! 142050 rejoins the mainline at Hest Bank on its way to Leeds via Skipton. Hest Bank station's down platform used to occupy this area but after closure in 1969 the platforms were removed and the chord extended to near the level crossing.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/05/2009]](/images/23000/23675.jpg "Hest Bank")
![A Morecambe to Leeds Pacer has just left the Bare Lane chord (note point blades in the foreground) and is heading for the next stop at Carnforth. 142050 is passing the signal box that overlooks the popular foreshore at Hest Bank. The box also controls the crossing at nearby Bolton-le-Sands. The crossover just ahead of the train is used to access the chord from the Up line but only nuclear flask trains currently operate in that direction. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/05/2009]](/images/33000/33080.jpg "Hest Bank")
![The immaculate, main line registered, 86259 <I>Les Ross</I> lays over in the sidings at Carnforth having brought in a special from Milton Keynes, which was taken forward to Ravenglass by 5690 <I>Leander</I>. The electric loco was scheduled to haul the return leg later in the day. West Coast Railway Company stock awaiting restoration can be seen in the depot sidings behind the locomotive.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/05/2009]](/images/23000/23905.jpg "Carnforth")
![6233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> heads the <I>Royal Scot</I> special train from Crewe to Carlisle approaching Hest Bank level crossing on 30 May 2009 (and doing a lot more than 45mph - that sign is for the chord to Bare Lane to the right of the Pacific) [See image 28004].<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/05/2009]](/images/23000/23906.jpg "Hest Bank")
![185151 has the green light to join the main line at the south end of Carnforth on a service from Barrow to Manchester Airport. The long disused main line down platform is on the other side of the wire fence.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/05/2009]](/images/23000/23960.jpg "Carnforth")
![The east end of Hincaster tunnel under the WCML (which can just be made out above the tunnel entrance). Although this looks like a single track railway tunnel, it is in fact part of the abandoned Lancaster Canal which formerly operated between Preston and Kendal. The tunnel was constructed during 1816 & 1817 and is 378 yards long. Over 4 million bricks were used in the construction of the tunnel and in its day was the first major brick structure north of the River Mersey. The path to the left also leads under the WCML, over the hill and to the west side of the tunnel. It was used by the horses that pulled the barges on the canal as there was no towpath through the tunnel. The last commercial traffic passed through the tunnel in 1944. See also photos 21298 and 21302. This is a key point on yesterdays and todays transport networks as the A590 dual carriageway also passes under the WCML approx 50 yards to the right of the picture.<br><br>[John McIntyre 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24337.jpg "Hincaster Junction")
![The previous occasion on which I had seen Castle class No. 5043 <I>Earl of Mount Edgcumbe</I> had been back in the early 1970s at Barry scrapyard so I had never thought it would one day be seen steaming into Carlisle - but here it is on 20th June 2009 entering platform 3 there on the <I>Castle over Shap</I> tour from Tyseley, which it worked from Crewe. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 20/06/2009]](/images/45000/45701.jpg "Carlisle")
![Northern end of Lancaster (Castle) station at 1700 hrs on 22 July. Voyager 221108, on the left, has just terminated on a service from London and will shortly go forward ECS to Carnforth for a short layover before returning to form a Euston service. 221109 is just pulling in on a service from Scotland to Birmingham New Street. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/07/2009]](/images/24000/24725.jpg "Lancaster")
![A sizeable complement of passengers waiting for the guard to open the doors of single car 153378 on a Millom service in Platform 1 at Lancaster. Alongside, in bay Platform 2, 156423 waits to leave for Morecambe.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/07/2009]](/images/25000/25251.jpg "Lancaster")
![221116 is just about to depart Lancaster for Birmingham New Street. In the background the impressive down side buildings of the station, formerly known as Lancaster Castle, can be seen as can the Up and Down through roads. These non-platform lines are still frequently used by WCML freight traffic. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 31/07/2009]](/images/24000/24840.jpg "Lancaster")
![Although the former Platform 6 at Lancaster Castle is disused the first floor of the original station building is still the booking office, operated by Virgin, and from where the platforms are accessed via the footbridge. 156480 stands in Platform 5 waiting to form a Northern service to Barrow in Furness in this view looking northwards. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 31/07/2009]](/images/24000/24912.jpg "Lancaster")
![Looking north up the WCML towards Carnforth as the Northern Rail once a day Leeds to Heysham Harbour service approaches Hest Bank in the hands of 144010. It was noted that the destination display was showing Morecambe which presumably was due to the Class 144 not having Heysham Harbour on the list of stations.<br><br>[John McIntyre 11/08/2009]](/images/25000/25040.jpg "Hest Bank")
![A northbound Pendolino has just passed Hest Bank level crossing frame box on 11 August 2009.<br><br>[John McIntyre 11/08/2009]](/images/37000/37809.jpg "Hest Bank")
![A view of Carlisle Bridge at Lancaster, taken from alongside the Ashton Memorial in Williamson Park. The River Lune, Morecambe behind and finally a murky Morecambe Bay can all be seen and the sharp eyed will spot 5690 <I>Leander</I> coasting into Lancaster (Castle) station with the ECS of the <I>Fellsman</I> train. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/08/2009]](/images/25000/25098.jpg "Lancaster")
![A Voyager speeds north at Shap Summit, the view looks north. The tracks in the foreground serve the Shap Summit Quarry loading pad (behind camera) with the leftmost lifted beyond the boundary fence gate. A line used to run south from near here to Shap Pink Granite Quarry.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 05/09/2009]](/images/25000/25394.jpg "Shap Summit")
![This is the view over a gate at Shap Summit looking south in 2009. The sidings serve the loading pad for the quarry here. The track to the right is a short stub.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 05/09/2009]](/images/34000/34865.jpg "Shap Summit")
![A soundbound freight has just crossed over Shap Summit. This is the view from the very high footbridge just to the south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/09/2009]](/images/25000/25558.jpg "Shap Summit")
![6233 <I>'Duchess of Sutherland</I> awaits her passengers at Carlisle on 19 September 2009 ready for the return leg of a special about to head back to Peterborough.<br><br>[David Forbes 19/09/2009]](/images/25000/25481.jpg "Carlisle")
![Most of the main line steam workings terminating at Carlisle use one or other side of the island platform, usually No. 3. Platform 4 is far better though, as demonstrated by Black 5 No. 45231, which is beautifully lit by autumn sunshine as it waits to take out the return <i>Fellsman</i> on 23rd September 2009.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 23/09/2009]](/images/40000/40926.jpg "Carlisle")
![A1 Pacific no 60163 <I>Tornado</I> at Carlisle on 10 October, welcomed by hundreds of well-wishers. It just rolled into the station like poetry in motion... a real work of art.<br><br>[Brian Smith 10/10/2009]](/images/25000/25835.jpg "Carlisle")
![Virgin <I>Thunderbird</I> no 57310 <I>Kyrano</I> with the Kingmoor - Chirk timber train is overtaken by a southbound Pendolino in Carlisle station on 26 October.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 26/10/2009]](/images/26000/26047.jpg "Carlisle")
![Wintry conditions as Northern Pacer 144011 arrives in Platform 5 at Lancaster prior to reversing for Morecambe. Despite the falling snow, which continued to affect public transport across Britain, this service, which had travelled via Skipton and Bentham, was only running around 20 minutes late. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/01/2010]](/images/27000/27064.jpg "Lancaster")
![Having connected with southbound WCML trains on the opposite side of Lancaster's island platform 144011 is ready to continue its journey from Leeds to Morecambe. The snow ceased soon afterwards and compared to many other areas Lancaster <I>got off lightly</I>. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/01/2010]](/images/27000/27078.jpg "Lancaster")
![In its now out of date Stobart livery DRS 66411 <I>Eddie the Engine</I> takes a train of Malcolm containers south through Carnforth station. This picture was taken from the cut back Up Main Line platform. All stopping services now use the Furness Line platforms that are only accessible through the subway. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/01/2010]](/images/27000/27359.jpg "Carnforth")
![Coaling towers were once a distinctive skyline feature in many places but are very rare now. The tower at Carnforth is a concrete post-war structure and survives in the West Coast Railway depot although it is no longer operational. It is seen here from Carnforth station car park with the depot water tower alongside. The old main line platforms and the subway entrance can be seen to the left of the station building, which now houses a travel centre booking office and small businesses.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/01/2010]](/images/27000/27391.jpg "Carnforth")
![This Pendolino has a somewhat toothy grin with the front cover removed. The view looks north towards Scout Green.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 28/01/2010]](/images/27000/27508.jpg "Scout Green")
![Voyagers passing between Tebay and Scout Green. View looks south to Tebay.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 28/01/2010]](/images/27000/27573.jpg "Tebay")
![Colas Rail locomotive 66843 thunders south through Lancaster with the Carlisle - Chirk logs on 11 February 2010. DRS 57002 is DIT as insurance.<br><br>[John McIntyre 11/02/2010]](/images/28000/28701.jpg "Lancaster")
![Having arrived from Leeds via Skipton and Carnforth, 144006 waits at plaftorm 5 of Lancaster station befor reversing and heading for Heysham Port on 11 February 2010. There will be one more reversal for the DMU before the end of its journey - at Morecambe.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 11/02/2010]](/images/31000/31848.jpg "Lancaster")
![390035 is on time at 0830 at Lancaster on the 0539 from Euston on 25 February. The Pendolino was running with the nose cover open but the train also arrived a few minutes ahead of its 1036 schedule in Glasgow Central. Over on the opposite side the of the station the substantial buffers on the Platform 5 catch points can be seen protecting the main line from unauthorised departures. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/02/2010]](/images/27000/27906.jpg "Lancaster")
![A Manchester Airport service runs into Lancaster from the north as seen from the end of Platform 3. The green railings alongside TPE 185138 mark the site of an additional bridge that carried the Green Ayre link line over Long Marsh Lane. This line had overhead catenary and was used by an EMU service to Green Ayre and Morecambe until 1966. After freight to Lancaster Power Station ceased in 1980 the trackbed was converted into a cycleway that starts by the old bridge abutment. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/02/2010]](/images/27000/27983.jpg "Lancaster")
![The 0811 service from Morecambe, formed by 156469, runs into Platform 2, a north facing bay at Lancaster. Some trains on the branch are lightly loaded but this train is usually standing room only, at least for the five minute run from Bare Lane. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/02/2010]](/images/28000/28077.jpg "Lancaster")
![Scene at Tebay on 1 March 2010, looking over the formation of the old NER route to Kirkby Stephen, with the WCML in the background. Here stand the last survivors of the former LMS Liverpool - Southport emus. Introduced in 1939 and latterly classified 502, these units boasted air operated doors, not unlike those used on the 303 sets in Glasgow some 20 years later. <br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/03/2010]](/images/27000/27936.jpg "Tebay")
![The future is looking brighter for the remaining two carraiges of the Class 502 EMU which have recently been moved from storage out in the open at Tebay, to new secure storage, under cover at Burscough in West Lancashire where more effective restoration can continue. [See recent news item]<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/03/2010]](/images/37000/37868.jpg "Tebay")
![The former station building at Hest Bank, closed in 1969, still sits on the Up line next to the level crossing and is used as business offices although the platforms were removed for electrification. The bridge steps in the picture provide a useful vantage point for the down line but 142095 is seen here from the lineside fence as it slowly joins the main line from the Bare Lane link line.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/03/2010]](/images/21000/21434.jpg "Hest Bank")
![The Bare Lane to Hest Bank chord only has two daily scheduled services but 142095 is captured here joining the main line on the 1619 Morecambe to Leeds service, which avoids Lancaster. However, <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> looked (and sounded) more impressive than the Pacer from the same, but nowadays inaccesible, lineside viewpoint [See image 23906].<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/03/2010]](/images/28000/28004.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Britannia Pacific no 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> takes <I>The Roaring Monster</I> excursion north through Oxenholme on 19 March 2010 en route to Carlisle. <br><br>[John McIntyre 19/03/2010]](/images/28000/28170.jpg "Oxenholme")
![A DMU crossing the River Lune on Carlisle Bridge, Lancaster, in March 2010.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 19/03/2010]](/images/43000/43477.jpg "Lancaster")
![A northbound service passes the access point at Scout Green on its way north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/04/2010]](/images/28000/28907.jpg "Scout Green")
![A glorious morning at Hest Bank as A1 Pacific 60163 approaches the level crossing with the <I>Cumbrian Coast Tornado</I> excursion, running about thirty minutes late. It has been a steamy start to 2010 on the West Coast Main Line in the North West with more specials planned as the year progresses. 60163 was booked to take the coast line to Carlisle via Workington and then return on the Settle and Carlisle. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 14/04/2010]](/images/28000/28511.jpg "Hest Bank")
![The pantograph on Stobart liveried 92017 is rising as it approaches Hest Bank level crossing where the wires are set high to provide clearance. The very long train was composed almost entirely of Tesco containers, with just a few empty flats at the rear, demonstrating DB's confidence in the Class 92 Co-Co electric's hauling capabilities over the climbs ahead. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 14/04/2010]](/images/28000/28531.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Milnthorpe station was over a mile from the small town it served and by 1964 had a service of only three up and four down trains on weekdays. It closed on 1 July 1968, the same day as the stations at Tebay and Shap. The station building survives alongside the WCML as seen in this view looking south towards Carnforth. [Railscot note to would be photographers: The bridge overlooking Milnthorpe is on a fast road with no footpath and not a place to linger waiting for trains. The bridges at Elmsfield, around a mile south of here on the B6384, are a much better location.] <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/04/2010]](/images/28000/28582.jpg "Milnthorpe")
![The station building at Milnthorpe, still in non-railway use alongside the WCML in April 2010, over forty years after closure. The platforms have long gone but the distinctive original Lancaster and Carlisle Railway building remains. Straight ahead is the road haulage depot that now occupies the old goods yard.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/04/2010]](/images/28000/28747.jpg "Milnthorpe")
![The Network Rail Measurement train about to set off south from Carlisle on 24 April 2010.<br><br>[Brian Smith 24/04/2010]](/images/29000/29657.jpg "Carlisle")
![Afternoon sunshine catches Lowgill Viaduct on the former line from Low Gill to Ingleton on 30 May 2010. The WCML and the M6 motorway are less than 200 yards behind the camera.<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/05/2010]](/images/29000/29196.jpg "Lowgill Viaduct")
![Having turned on the triangle of lines to the south of Carlisle station on 3 July 2010, No. 71000 <i>Duke of Gloucester</i> stands ready to return 'The Cumbrian Coast Explorer' to Crewe. The Cumbrian Coast line was only traversed on the outward journey - the return was via the Settle and Carlisle.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/06/2010]](/images/37000/37139.jpg "Carlisle")
![A Voyager for Birmingham New Street passes Carnforth on 19 June 2010. The WCML platforms were removed prior to electrification, resulting in passengers for the north having to first go south to Lancaster. Since introduction of the Virgin VHF timetable options for connections at Lancaster have been reduced and a lengthy detour via Preston can be necessary. The original station building on the WCML up platform here remains in use today as the booking office and a number of small retail outlets. The buildings on the platform between the WCML and Furness lines have been restored and now house a refreshment room and visitor centre.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/06/2010]](/images/29000/29456.jpg "Carnforth")
![Looking at the locomotives stabled next to the station at Carnforth on 19 June 2010 you may think that DRS had opened a new depot, but the yard area around the former steam shed (latterly 10A in BR days) is still part of the West Coast Railway Company. Three Class 37 and four Class 20 locos are currently stored on the site in the shadow of the coal and ash towers.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/06/2010]](/images/29000/29461.jpg "Carnforth")
![Looking north towards Carnforth on 19 June 2010 as First Trans Pennine Express 185133 passes Bolton-le-Sands with the 1325 service from Barrow-in-Furness to Manchester Airport. Following close behind this unit was the 1208 First Trans Pennine Express service from Edinburgh to Manchester Airport. The two portions join at Preston for the final part of the journey.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/06/2010]](/images/29000/29493.jpg "Bolton-le-Sands")
![Looking south along the WCML at Bolton-Le-Sands towards Hest Bank on 19 June 2010 as 153363 approaches the level crossing with a service to Carlisle via Barrow and the Cumbrian Coast.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/06/2010]](/images/29000/29529.jpg "Bolton-le-Sands")
![First Trans Pennine Express 185147 snakes across the WCML down line to join the up line after departing from Carnforth on a Barrow - Manchester Airport service on 19 June 2010.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/06/2010]](/images/29000/29546.jpg "Carnforth")
![With a slight heat shimmer surrounding it, a northbound Virgin Pendolino races along the straight approaching Bolton-le-Sands LC on 19 June 2010.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/06/2010]](/images/37000/37300.jpg "Bolton-le-Sands")
![A Northern service from Heysham Port to Leeds on 19 June 2010 approaching the level crossing at Bolton-le-Sands.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/06/2010]](/images/38000/38010.jpg "Bolton-le-Sands")
![Steam specials arriving in Carlisle usually loiter long enough to allow a few close up studies - such as this one of Duke of Gloucester's front end following its arrival on The Cumbrian Coast Explorer from Crewe on 3rd July 2010<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/07/2010]](/images/37000/37238.jpg "Carlisle")
![BR 8P Caprotti Pacific No. 71000 <I>'Duke of Gloucester'</I> draws to a halt at Carlisle's platform 3 after arriving with 'The Cumbrian Coast Explorer' from Crewe.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/07/2010]](/images/37000/37881.jpg "Carlisle")
![The 1640 Glasgow to Euston Pendolino leaves Lancaster on time at 1844 heading south. Lancaster's Priory Church is on the hill overlooking the station and the Lake District mountains can be seen behind. The low fence in the foreground is on the towpath of the Lancaster Canal.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 27/07/2010]](/images/29000/29988.jpg "Lancaster")
![The 6K27 Carlisle Yard to Crewe infrastructure train climbs the 1:92 bank south of Lancaster behind 66508. The train is just approaching the site of Lancaster Old Junction where the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway joined the original Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway. The branch to the original Lancaster Greaves terminus [See image 18309] closed to passengers in 1849 but survived for goods traffic until 1967 although housing has now been built on the old formation, as seen to the left of the locomotive. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 27/07/2010]](/images/30000/30157.jpg "Lancaster")
![<I>All apparently forgiven</I>. On the anniversary of the end of BR steam <I>Fifteen Guinea Special</I> Royal Scot no 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> is entrusted with the third <I>Fellsman</I> special train and leaves Lancaster hauling 12 coaches up the 1:92 gradient, without diesel insurance. The previous tours had featured 45690 and 48151 so there is certainly variety for the 2010 programme and its good to see the Scot working well again after recent mishaps. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/08/2010]](/images/30000/30193.jpg "Lancaster")
![<I>'Which Scot is that?'</I> might have been the cry of a frustrated sixties spotter looking across from Carnforth station platform to the shed. No 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I>, with a remarkable load of coal in its tender, receives attention outside the running shed at Carnforth on 27 August 2010. West Coast locomotives are kept busy at this time of year and I believe 46115 had worked the Scarborough Flyer the previous day. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 27/08/2010]](/images/30000/30436.jpg "Carnforth")
![Four DRS Class 20s (20314/307/313/303) are presently stored at West Coast Railways at Carnforth, along with three DRS Class 37s. 37605 is seen here facing the 20s in the shadow of the famous Carnforth coaling tower, as seen from the Barrow platform of Carnforth station. 37612 and 37261 were also present coupled to 37605 just out of picture. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 27/08/2010]](/images/30000/30443.jpg "Carnforth")
![Three hours after leaving Maryport at 0600, Northern 153359 calls right time at Carnforth before its short sprint to Lancaster.The unit will shortly return on a Lancaster to Carlisle service via Barrow and Workington. Behind the platform on the right the WCML runs through the old, cut back, main line platforms <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/09/2010]](/images/30000/30709.jpg "Carnforth")
![The stored DRS lcomotives at Carnforth seem to be moved around the yard quite a bit - presumably to keep things from seizing up. 37261, 37612 and 37605 are seen here from the station platform, in front of four stored Class 20s, with the depot coaling tower and ash plant behind. Will there be any RHTT work for these locos this autumn? Postscript: Later that same day four more DRS Class 20s (20309/10/11/12) arrived from Carlisle for storage in the yard here.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 14/09/2010]](/images/30000/30687.jpg "Carnforth")
![6233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> at the North end of Carlisle on 18 September with the PMR tours <I>Citadel Express</I> shortly after arrival from Crewe.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/09/2010]](/images/30000/30743.jpg "Carlisle")
![The PMR tours <I>Citadel Express</I> following arrival at Carlisle behind 6233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> on 18 September 2010.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/09/2010]](/images/30000/30760.jpg "Carlisle")
![Interesting pointwork at Crag Bank, Carnforth. Contrary to appearances this double slip crossing is still in full use. Despite the rails having been removed from the shunting neck all the blades are still operational because it acts as a catch point for the two loops. 153359 passes on the 0600 Maryport to Lancaster service. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 21/09/2010]](/images/30000/30781.jpg "Carnforth")
![47851 in two tone green leaves Carnforth on the rear of the ecs to <br>
Barnetby on 1 October 2010 in preparation for a railtour the following day. The train is taking the ex MR line to Settle Junction, the ex Furness line is to the left. The lead locomotive is 47500 in WCRC maroon.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/10/2010]](/images/30000/30977.jpg "Carnforth")
![Preparing a locomotive for a railtour can take a long time. Ex LMS <br>
Pacific no 6233 is seen in the WCRC yard at Carnforth on 1 October 2010, having just been coaled in readiness for the following day's duties when it took a special from Carlisle to Stirling and then back to Carnforth. <br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/10/2010]](/images/30000/30984.jpg "Carnforth")
![A southbound Virgin Voyager passes 'Hest Bank level crossing frame' on 19 October, with Morecambe Bay and the Lake District fells in the background.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/10/2010]](/images/31000/31236.jpg "Hest Bank")
![View north at Hest Bank on 19 October 2010 as 66616 passes with the 6U68 Carlisle - Mountsorrel empty ballast train.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/10/2010]](/images/31000/31243.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Freightliner 66508 approaches the level crossing with coal empties for Scotland.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/10/2010]](/images/31000/31323.jpg "Hest Bank")
![The famed (not-so) 'silver bullets' Dollands Moor - Irvine china clay tanks (which originate in Antwerp) passing through Carnforth on 20 October behind 92012 <I>Thomas Hardy</I>.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/10/2010]](/images/31000/31203.jpg "Carnforth")
![92019 <I>Wagner</I> slows the 4M67 Mossend - Hams Hall intermodal service through Carnforth on 21 October before taking to the up loop.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/10/2010]](/images/31000/31210.jpg "Carnforth")
![Part of a row of three class 37s and six class 20s, stored for DRS at Carnforth MPD on 21 October, with the old coal and ash towers dominating the scene.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/10/2010]](/images/31000/31214.jpg "Carnforth")
![Looking very woebegone, and engineless, Loadhaul liveried 37710 (formerly D6744 and withdrawn in 2005) sits behind the workshops at Carnforth WCRC complex. Amongst the stock visible here are a steam loco tender, an industrial shunter, a crane and Brush Type 4 no 47776. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/11/2010]](/images/31000/31684.jpg "Carnforth")
![Steam age relics at Carnforth shed with the famous coaling tower that can be seen from some distance away and also the old water tower, both lit by the early sun on a very cold morning. Behind them the shed itself can be seen, with many roads now occupied by WCRC coaching stock. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/11/2010]](/images/31000/31694.jpg "Carnforth")
![Capable of coaling four steam locos at once when operational, the concrete tower at Carnforth shed is now silent and cannot be used. It had two coaling roads for the locomotives and a third for the wagon hoist used to fill the bunkers and these are now used to stable WCRC coaching stock. Usually viewed from the front (wagon hoist) elevation this view was taken from the south west side and shows the access ladders and operation areas.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/11/2010]](/images/31000/31711.jpg "Carnforth")
![The Winter 'Cumbrian Mountain Express' from Manchester to Carlisle hauled by 44871 and 5690 climbing northwards at Yealand Steps between Carnforth and Oxenholme on 30 December 2010. The wreath and headboard are tributes to WCRC railwayman Paul Kane who died suddenly after being taken ill on the footplate of 60019 <I>Bittern</I> on a special between York and Kings Cross on 18 December 2010.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/12/2010]](/images/32000/32113.jpg "Carnforth")
![2011 view of Carnforth coaling tower, with WCRC coaching stock occupying the coaling roads. View from the west side of the shed. [See image 32540] for the same location in steam days.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 29/01/2011]](/images/32000/32541.jpg "Carnforth")
![Immaculately restored, and apparently cleared for 100mph running, Inspection Saloon 999506 stands outside the former steam shed at Carnforth amongst other West Coast Railways coacing stock. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 29/01/2011]](/images/32000/32716.jpg "Carnforth")
![Until the December 2012 timetable change several WCML trains from Euston terminated at Lancaster and then ran ECS to Carnforth before returning to London. Pendolino 390015 <I>Virgin Crusader</I> arrived at Lancaster at 1500 and is seen here rejoining the main line, after a brief layover in a Carnforth loop, running ECS to form the 1539 Lancaster to Euston. With the introductionof the hourly Euston - Glasgow services these Carnforth manoeuvres have now stopped.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/02/2011]](/images/32000/32586.jpg "Carnforth")
![Freightliner 70006 approaches Carlisle Station from the south with a departmental train on 18 March.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/03/2011]](/images/33000/33269.jpg "Carlisle")
![Colas Rail 66843 runs through Carlisle with the 6J37 Kingmoor - Chirk timber train on 19 March 2011.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/03/2011]](/images/33000/33299.jpg "Carlisle")
![With Arnside viaduct closed for repairs in 2011 traffic for Sellafield is routed via the WCML to Carlisle. DRS Class 37s 37667 and 37194 had a lengthy wait in the loops at Carnforth before getting underway again with the 6C53 Crewe to Sellafield on 1 April. The train comprised seven nuclear flasks and is seen here rejoining the main line immediately south of the station platforms. A further halt in the Oxenholme loops was probably expected by the crew. [Editor's note: No 37667 (then D6851) hauled the last down Anglo-Scottish freight on the Waverley Route (the 08.30 Kingmoor-Millerhill) on Saturday 4th January 1969.]<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/04/2011]](/images/33000/33441.jpg "Carnforth")
![Light engine movement at Hest Bank as Freightliner 66545 heads south over the level crossing. The line between Lancaster and Carnforth is very busy and the crossing barriers at Hest Bank and Bolton-le-Sands are often down for lengthy periods while several trains pass. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/04/2011]](/images/34000/34108.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Day 6 of the 2011 <I>Great Britain IV</I> tour sees 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> heading the Glasgow to Preston leg south through the site of closed Bolton-le-Sands station after an extended water stop at Carnforth.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 21/04/2011]](/images/33000/33744.jpg "Bolton-le-Sands")
![The DRS Class 37s that have been in long term storage at Carnforth (37605/612/261) departed for Carlisle in April 2011 leaving only the six DRS Class 20s and BRCW Type 3 33030 on this road behind the station. However they have been joined by Brush Type 4 No. 47772 in faded RES red livery and a smart looking West Coast EE Type 3 No. 37214. At the other end of this long line, but less accessible for photographs, were Brush Type 4 No. 47768 in green undercoat and EE Type 3 No. 37668 in faded EWS livery.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 04/05/2011]](/images/33000/33916.jpg "Carnforth")
![A southbound DRS container train waits in the Eden Valley loop just <br>
south of Penrith on the evening of 30 May 2011. This was the point at which the NER line to Appleby and Kirkby Stephen left the WCML and headed east. A short distance away behind the camera is the site of the former Clifton and Lowther station. <br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/05/2011]](/images/34000/34345.jpg "Eden Valley Junction")
![<I>Pendalongo</I> platform extensions are being constructed at various WCML stations to accommodate the planned 11 coach trains. This is the extension to Platform 4 on the Up line at Lancaster, seen here on 15th June 2011 as TPE 185109 leaves on a service for Preston. [See image 20266]<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 15/06/2011]](/images/34000/34522.jpg "Lancaster")
![A interesting coffee stop just off the M6, some 4 miles north of Penrith, is the station site at Plumpton. The station itself has long gone (closed May 1948) but the old station house now hosts a tea room with a garden centre occupying the yard. Photographed on 25 June 2011 with the WCML behind the camera.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/06/2011]](/images/34000/34843.jpg "Plumpton")
![Four of the six DRS Class 20s were removed from storage at Carnforth on 5 July 2011 and returned to Kingmoor for attention and a possible return to service. The view of the yard has therefore opened up again and resident shunter 08485 is seen here on 7 July pulling a rake of WCRC coaches past the coaling tower. 47772 in faded RES livery remains on the storage road with several other locomotives.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 07/07/2011]](/images/34000/34773.jpg "Carnforth")
![A consequence of the 2011 Arnside viaduct closure was the replacement of the Heysham boat train with a bus service from Lancaster station. Presumably the train was used for an extra service to Morecambe. All returned to normal when the bridge reopened on 18 July and two days later 142090 is seen in Platform 5 at Lancaster waiting to depart for the port.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/07/2011]](/images/34000/34966.jpg "Lancaster")
![Black 5 no 45305 sets off from a watering stop at Carnforth on 23 July 2011. The train is the <I>'Cumbrian Mountain Express'</I> railtour from Crewe to Carlisle, via Liverpool Lime Street.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 23/07/2011]](/images/35000/35039.jpg "Carnforth")
![The second steam railtour of the day at Carnforth on 23 July 2011 <br>
was a rather delayed <I>'Lakelander'</I> which had suffered a diesel failure en-route from Llandudno. At Carnforth ex LMS 8F 2-8-0 no 48151 took over for the run around Morecambe Bay and up the Cumbrian coast to Ravenglass. The loco change took place in the loops to the south of the station and the 8F is seen arriving at platform 2 where it was to pick up further passengers. (The wreath was in memory of Dave Jenner, Stations Manager on the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway, who passed away in May)<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 23/07/2011]](/images/35000/35044.jpg "Carnforth")
![Two railtours, both steam hauled, stand side by side in the <br>
loops at Carnforth on 30 July 2011. On the right is LMS pacific no 6201 <I>Princess Elizabeth</I> which stopped for water on the 'Cumbrian Mountain Express', on its way from Crewe to Carlisle via Stockport, Manchester and Bolton. On the left is LMS Black 5, no 44932 which has just taken over from a diesel on 'The Lakelander', running from Lincoln to Ravenglass.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/07/2011]](/images/35000/35077.jpg "Carnforth")
![Stanier 8F 2-8-0 48151 gets to grips with the steep climb out of Lancaster with a <I>Fellsman</I> charter to Carlisle via Preston and the S&C. ON this clear still morning I'm sure the bark of the locomotive's exhaust could be heard all over the city. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/08/2011]](/images/35000/35294.jpg "Lancaster")
![Black 5 no 44932 waits at the south end of platform 3 at Carlisle with <I>The Waverley</I> railtour on 20 August 2011.<br><br>[John McIntyre 20/08/2011]](/images/36000/36968.jpg "Carlisle")
![With <I>Scots Guardsman</I> currently out of action 8F 48151 has become the regular motive power for the weekly <I>Fellsman</I> excursions from Lancaster. Here the 2-8-0, with its steam sanders on and maintaining around 10mph on the tight and greasy curve, digs in to the climb of Lancaster bank but as the line straightened out the exhaust beat picked up and the train accelerated up the hill. [See image 35374]<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/08/2011]](/images/35000/35365.jpg "Lancaster")
![With signals at <I>Caution</I> because of the preceeding 8F hauled train (How often can you write that in a caption these days?) DRS 66424 maintains a slow but steady climb up the bank from Lancaster station on 24 August with a long southbound container train. [See image 35365]<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/08/2011]](/images/35000/35374.jpg "Lancaster")
![Close-up of preserved Black 5 No. 45231 at Carlisle on 7 September 2011 waiting to transfer the coaching stock for the southbound 'Fellsman' from the sidings on the west side of the station into platform 1. The smokebox paintwork was somewhat the worse for wear but had been renewed by the following Wednesday. <br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 07/09/2011]](/images/37000/37005.jpg "Carlisle")
![A Glasgow - Euston Pendolino tilts through Penrith as it heads south on 10 September 2011.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 10/09/2011]](/images/35000/35592.jpg "Penrith")
![A northbound Pendolino speeds through the Lune Valley towards Tebay on 10 September, passing traffic on the M6 motorway.<br><br>[John McIntyre 10/09/2011]](/images/35000/35602.jpg "Tebay")
![An Edinburgh - Manchester Airport service calls at Penrith on 10 September 2011.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 10/09/2011]](/images/35000/35608.jpg "Penrith")
![A TransPennine Manchester Airport - Edinburgh service calls at Penrith on 10 September 2011.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 10/09/2011]](/images/35000/35623.jpg "Penrith")
![Having just passed through Penrith, a southbound Pendolino is about to cross the M6 motorway at junction 40 on 10 September 2011. To the right is the present day Down Slow line which used to continue west from the WCML towards Keswick and Cockermouth [see image 21956].<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 10/09/2011]](/images/35000/35634.jpg "Penrith")
![The first day of a railtour from Preston to Mallaig, The West Highlander on 10 September 2011, with Black 5 no.44932 working hard passing Scout Green on the climb from Tebay to Shap summit.<br><br>[John McIntyre 10/09/2011]](/images/53000/53354.jpg "Scout Green")
![Black 5 45231 makes a spirited assault on the bank south of Lancaster with the final 2011 <I>Fellsman</I>. Four different steam locomotives have been used on the nine fully booked trains this year - 46115 (2), 44932 (1), 48151 (4) and finally 45231 (2). Roll on 2012!<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 14/09/2011]](/images/35000/35639.jpg "Lancaster")
![Preserved Black 5 No. 45231 runs into platform 3 at Carlisle on 14 September 2011 with the last <I>Fellsman</I> of the season.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 14/09/2011]](/images/40000/40643.jpg "Carlisle")
![46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> charges through Oxenholme station on 1 October 2011 with the Crewe to Carlisle 'Train of Hope' charity railtour. The tour was running almost an hour late due a failure of the diesel locomotive taking the ecs to Crewe.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/10/2011]](/images/36000/36225.jpg "Oxenholme")
![In need of a bit of TLC - but unlikely to get it. Hest Bank signal box overlooks the foreshore, and has always taken a battering from the weather, and is looking particularly shabby at the moment. However, it is now identified for closure with control of the crossing passing to Preston Power Box and so unlikely to be refurbished again.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 10/10/2011]](/images/35000/35978.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Freightliner's 66507 powers north alongside Morecambe Bay with empty coal hoppers bound for Scotland. It was interesting to see, from the high footbridge, the insides of the tall wagons and just how battered the internal vanes are that separate the hoppers. The shiny, well used main line rails here contrast with the lightly used link to Bare Lane on the right.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 10/10/2011]](/images/36000/36081.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Kirkby Lonsdale station closed to passengers in 1954, although the Low Gill to Clapham line continued to see freight, diversions and specials into the 1960s. The town is the second largest on the line, after Sedbergh, but the station is 1.5 miles away just off the A65, which wouldn't have helped patronage. In 2010 it was converted into a tea room and pottery but has since reverted to purely residential use [See image 36246]. Map reference SD629774.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 15/10/2011]](/images/36000/36038.jpg "Kirkby Lonsdale")
![Looking suitably embarrassed, West Coast Railways class 47 no 47826 stands in Wapping sidings, Carlisle, on 18 October 2011. The locomotive had failed near here the previous Saturday.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/10/2011]](/images/36000/36111.jpg "Carlisle")
![A <I>new</I> face has apppeared on the stored loco line at Carnforth in the shape of 57005, which was transferred here from Gloucester where it had been stored after the demise of Advenza Freight. The loco was previously with Freightliner and before conversion was numbered 47350. It remains to be seen what will happen to it now it is with West Coast Railways. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/10/2011]](/images/36000/36155.jpg "Carnforth")
![Still TOPS registered but confined to the West Coast yard at Carnforth is shunter 08418. Its EWS red and gold livery is perhaps better described as pink and yellow but it is kept busy moving stock and locomotives around the complex. Its a long time since the old shed was known as <I>Steamtown</I>.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/10/2011]](/images/36000/36274.jpg "Carnforth")
![The last two stored Class 20s were towed away from Carnforth on 15 November 2011 to Barrow Hill. 20311 and 20314 were purchased by Harry Needle from DRS for further main line work. They were at Carnforth for many months and are pictured on the storage line there on 24 October 2011. Note the two different DRS blue liveries. 20314 and 20311 subsequently re-emerged from the workshops in HNRC orange livery [See image 48833]. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/10/2011]](/images/36000/36456.jpg "Carnforth")
![Dusk at Kirkby Lonsdale and the lights are on in the pottery and tea room that were tastefully built on to the station building where the platform once stood. Just behind the new extension is an overbridge and the trackbed towards the next station Ingleton, on the line to Clapham. Since this image was taken the pottery and cafe have closed and the building has reverted to private residential use.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 29/10/2011]](/images/36000/36246.jpg "Kirkby Lonsdale")
![An unusual combination on a <I>bonfire night</I> Leeds to Morecambe service. Single unit 153358 and 3-car Pacer 144017 leave Platform 5 at Lancaster heading for Morecambe after reversal. 2-car Pacers usually suffice for these <I>Little North Western</I> line services. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/11/2011]](/images/36000/36521.jpg "Lancaster")
![With the departure of the last Class 20s in November 2011 only one DRS loco remains in storage at Carnforth, namely BRCW Type 3 33030. These Southern Region engines always seemed a bit out of place in the North West but, by coincidence, the last two main line operational Class 33s are still used by West Coast Railways from the depot behind the coaling tower.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 18/11/2011]](/images/36000/36467.jpg "Carnforth")
![92041 <I>Vaughan Williams</I> speeds a rake of containers south past the remains of Carnforth's main line platforms in the last bit of the daylight on 23rd December 2011<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/12/2011]](/images/36000/36927.jpg "Carnforth")
![Black 5s 44871 and 45407 double head the 12-coach Manchester Victoria - Carlisle <I>'Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express'</I> on Shap on 28 January 2012. [See image 37408]<br><br>[Jim Peebles 28/01/2012]](/images/37000/37399.jpg "Shap")
![A pair of First TPE Class 185s on a Manchester Airport - Edinburgh service passing the site of Hest Bank station and level crossing on 28 January 2012.<br><br>[John McIntyre 28/01/2012]](/images/37000/37418.jpg "Hest Bank")
![<I>'Sorry I'm a bit late - hope I haven't missed it....!' </I> After the Lord Mayor's show, Shap, 28 January 2012 [see image 37399].<br><br>[Jim Peebles 28/01/2012]](/images/37000/37420.jpg "Shap")
![The 4S43 Daventry - Mossend container service climbing from Carnforth towards Oxenholme at Yealand Steps on Saturday 28 January 2012. The train was hauled by 92015 <i>'D H Lawrence'</i>, recently repainted in the DBS red livery. <br><br>[John McIntyre 28/01/2012]](/images/37000/37428.jpg "Carnforth")
![In January 2012 Hest Bank still retains a signalbox, although downgraded to a gate box or, as the name states, a level crossing frame. The fact that the box is to be closed under current Network Rail plans is perhaps reflected by the lack of maintenance on the structure (the west side, facing Morecambe Bay, is very much the worse for wear). With the South Lakeland Hills in the background, an up Pendolino rushes towards its next stop at Lancaster on 28 January 2012.<br><br>[John McIntyre 28/01/2012]](/images/37000/37438.jpg "Hest Bank")
![A southbound Virgin Voyager passes Hest Bank level crossing heading for the Lancaster stop on 28 January 2012.<br><br>[John McIntyre 28/01/2012]](/images/37000/37452.jpg "Hest Bank")
![A southbound Pendolino rushes towards Carnforth past Yealand Steps on 28 January 2012.<br><br>[John McIntyre 28/01/2012]](/images/37000/37459.jpg "Carnforth")
![The 0940 from Carlisle to Lancaster via the Cumbrian Coast nears the end of its 3 hour 36 minute journey as it passes Hest Bank on 28 January 2012 having called at 34 stations en-route. The rear destination blind has already been changed in preparation for the return journey.<br><br>[John McIntyre 28/01/2012]](/images/37000/37467.jpg "Hest Bank")
![A northbound Voyager catches the sun as it passes through southern Cumbria, close to the former station at Burton and Holme, on 18 February 2012. [See image 22857]<br><br>[John McIntyre 18/02/2012]](/images/41000/41569.jpg "Burton and Holme")
![70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> storms up Shap bank at Scout Green with the fourth <I>Cumbrian Mountain Express</I> of 2012. These trains, all fully booked, have been electric hauled by 86259 <I>Les Ross</I> to Lancashire where the Britannia or 5MT 45305 took over for the Shap, Carlisle and Settle circuit.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/02/2012]](/images/37000/37757.jpg "Scout Green")
![The outbound <I>'Cumbrian Mountain Express'</I> of 25 February 2012 photographed on Shap heading for Carlisle behind Britannia Pacific no 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I>.<br><br>[Jim Peebles 25/02/2012]](/images/37000/37766.jpg "Shap")
![Curving Lowgill viaduct is a landmark for WCML and M6 travellers at the south end of the Lune Gorge. Situated at the north end of the line to Ingleton and Clapham it lost its regular passenger services in 1954 but carried freight, diversions and other occasional trains for a further twelve years before complete closure.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/02/2012]](/images/37000/37767.jpg "Lowgill Viaduct")
![70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> approaching the site of Scout Green level crossing with the <I>Cumbrian Mountain Express</I>. Moments later, and while still in view, the 4-6-2 slipped at speed (twice) but was expertly brought under control and continued to Shap summit in fine style. (See recent YouTube postings at Scout Green capturing this impressive piece of driving). <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/02/2012]](/images/37000/37771.jpg "Scout Green")
![But for the Midland and LNWR falling out, the Clapham to Lowgill railway would have been the main line to Scotland from West Yorkshire. It was certainly built like a main line as three great surviving bridges at Ingleton, Lowgill and Sedbergh testify. This is the Sedbergh bridge, in cast iron and brick, striding across the Lune Valley.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/02/2012]](/images/37000/37788.jpg "Sedbergh")
![Ayrshire bound coal empties are lifted up the 1:75 Shap bank at Scout Green by Freightliner 70002. The next loco up the hill was 70013, but from a different class and era.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/02/2012]](/images/37000/37799.jpg "Scout Green")
![On the day the contractors moved in to upgrade Bolton-le-Sands level crossing, 150228 passes on a Morecambe to Leeds service. The station, closed in 1969 and removed, was on the right of the picture [See image 20171]. Nearby Hest Bank and Bare Lane crossings are also being modernised during Spring 2012 with their signal boxes scheduled to disappear. (See News item.)<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/03/2012]](/images/37000/37865.jpg "Bolton-le-Sands")
![Looking North over the signal box at Hest Bank on what Winnie the Pooh would undoubtedly call a Blustery Day. A Transpennine 185 heads south towards the level crossing on 13 May 2012.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 13/05/2012]](/images/38000/38987.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Oh dear, the gnomes have escaped again! Surreal detail on the seaward side of Hest Bank box on 13th May this year.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 13/05/2012]](/images/39000/39807.jpg "Hest Bank")
![With the iconic headboard on the smokebox 46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> hurries the <I>Royal Scot</I> north through Oxenholme on 9th June 2012. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 09/06/2012]](/images/39000/39141.jpg "Oxenholme")
![As 66610 slowed its loaded southbound coal train almost to a halt in Oxenholme there was an all pervading smell of hot brakes in the station, a reminder of just how much heat needs to be dissipated controlling these heavy trains on inclines. The train was then signalled into the Up Loop to allow passenger services to overtake, much to the relief of enthusiasts waiting on Platform 1 for the approaching steam special. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 09/06/2012]](/images/39000/39199.jpg "Oxenholme")
![With that distinctive whistle chiming <I>Union of South Africa</I> runs north through Hest Bank on the final leg of a main line test with a full rake of coaches. 60009 had been on a circuit from Carnforth via Hellifield and Blackburn on 18 July with WCRC (ex-Advenza) 57006 on the rear as insurance.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 18/07/2012]](/images/39000/39628.jpg "Hest Bank")
![The Class 92 Test Train created a stir on the WCML during July 2012. It originally ran with four <I>stored</I> Class 92s but 92011 had returned to full service by the time this picture was taken on 18th July. 92019 approaches Hest Bank level crossing from the north with 92027 and 92025 dead in train and a rake of loaded ballast wagons. 92019 also returned to the main line the day after this run and the other two have since followed. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 18/07/2012]](/images/39000/39729.jpg "Hest Bank")
![The Class 92 test train, which created lots of interest on the WCML in July 2012, is seen heading south at Hest Bank. On this occasion 92019 is in charge with 92027 and 92025 dead in train and a rake of loaded ballast wagons. The locos had all been in store for some time but all returned to regular traffic shortly after this date.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 18/07/2012]](/images/40000/40131.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Former Advenza Freight No. 57006 is seen here bringing up the rear of a test train at Hest Bank on a circuit from Carnforth with newly repaired A4 4-6-2 No. 60009 on 18 July 2012. The Class 57 is now with West Coast Railways and had only recently returned to service itself. Within ten days of this picture being taken it had also been fully repainted into West Coast maroon livery [See image 39753].<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 18/07/2012]](/images/40000/40157.jpg "Hest Bank")
![60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> coasts downhill at Yealand Steps, approximately 2 miles north of Carnforth, with the southbound 'Cumbrian Mountain Express' on 18 August 2012. One of the crew is checking signals in preparation for the scheduled water stop at Carnforth.<br><br>[John McIntyre 18/08/2012]](/images/40000/40009.jpg "Carnforth")
![Front end in close-up. 61994 waits for a path to draw <I>The Fellsman</I> stock out of the sidings on the west side of Carlisle on 29 August 2012. The coaches will then be propelled back into platform No. 3 which seems, more often than not, to deal with both the arrival and departure of this working.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 29/08/2012]](/images/42000/42916.jpg "Carlisle")
![On a fine afternoon during an otherwise dismal summer, <I>The Great Marquess</I> departs southwards from Carlisle with the last 'Fellsman' of the 2012 season.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 29/08/2012]](/images/43000/43040.jpg "Carlisle")
![<I>The Great Marquess</I> propels the stock of 'The Fellsman' under Victoria Viaduct and into the stabling sidings on the west side of Carlisle station on a sunny 29 August 2012. After completing this manoeuvre the locomotive will run to Upperby for servicing and turning.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 29/08/2012]](/images/43000/43127.jpg "Carlisle")
![Scene at Carlisle platform 3 on a cloudy but bright Wednesday 29th August 2012. <I>The Great Marquess</I> has not long arrived with <I>The Fellsman</I> charter from Lancaster. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 29/08/2012]](/images/43000/43342.jpg "Carlisle")
![The bridge that carried the Clapham to Low Gill line over the River Rawthey to the south west of Sedbergh, Cumbria. The route was closed in 1966.<br><br>[Peter Rushton 09/09/2012]](/images/40000/40324.jpg "Waterside Viaduct")
![86259 <i>Les Ross</i> on the centre road at Carlisle on 6 October 2012.<br><br>[Kevin McCartney 06/10/2012]](/images/40000/40864.jpg "Carlisle")
![<I>Union of South Africa</I> stands on one of the centre roads at Carlisle on 27 October 2012 having arrived with <I>The Hadrian</I> charter from York via Newcastle. The locomotive is waiting to reverse down to Upperby with its support coach for turning. In the background No. 37605 and an unidentified sister loco stand on the other centre road with a Sandite train.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 27/10/2012]](/images/43000/43236.jpg "Carlisle")
![After a night when nearby Shap was the coldest place in the UK (at -7C), a late running <I>Stobart Tesco Express</I> is diverted into the Down loop at a very frosty Penrith to allow two passenger services to overtake. DRS 66421 and 66423 were in charge of the train, the rear of which can be seen above the siding buffers to the right of 66421. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/11/2012]](/images/41000/41209.jpg "Penrith")
![A TPE service for Glasgow Central passes through Penrith station at speed. 185119 is just passing the barrow crossing. This is for staff use only and, because of the restricted view, has a light on each side which goes out when a train is approaching (useful for enthusiasts as well as railway workers). <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/11/2012]](/images/41000/41268.jpg "Penrith")
![Penrith station building and forecourt in November 2012, as seen looking west from the walls of ruined Penrith Castle which is in a park opposite the station.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/11/2012]](/images/41000/41306.jpg "Penrith")
![Idling in Platform 3 at Penrith are 66421 and 66423 on the northbound <I>Stobart Tesco Express</I>. On this morning in November 2012 the freight was running late and was diverted into this loop line to allow a Voyager and Pendoline to overtake. The local red sandstone, used in many of Penrith's buildings, can be clearly seen as can the renovated glazed canopy.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/11/2012]](/images/41000/41346.jpg "Penrith")
![<I>Half a bridge is better than none</I>. Just east of the old Kirkby Lonsdale station, on the Low Gill to Clapham line, is the village of Cowan Bridge where this bridge carried the railway over the lane to Leck. With the embankment having been removed many years ago it is surprising that the low bridge hasn't gone too but it still straddles the road, 47 years after it carried its last train. Map Ref SD636765. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/01/2013]](/images/41000/41802.jpg "Kirkby Lonsdale")
![Black 5s 44871+45407 working hard with the winter <I>'Cumbrian Mountain Express'</I> photographed just north of Grayrigg on Saturday 26 January 2013.<br><br>[Peter Rushton 26/01/2013]](/images/41000/41876.jpg "Grayrigg")
![60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> making good progress as it nears Shap Summit with the <I>Cumbrian Mountain Express</I> on 2nd February 2013. The train is crossing the bridge over the lane at Shap Wells.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 02/02/2013]](/images/41000/41918.jpg "Shap Summit")
![A full house at Oxenholme on 2 February 2013 with (from right to left) in platform 1 a Pendolino for Euston, in platform 2 a double Super Voyager for Glasgow and hiding under the roof in platform 3 is a TPE Class 185 on the Windermere branch service.<br><br>[John McIntyre 02/02/2013]](/images/41000/41920.jpg "Oxenholme")
![Having taken over the London - Carlisle 'Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express' at Carnforth, A4 no. 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> is making good progress as it rushes through Oxenholme on 2 February 2013. (A passenger waiting for a southbound service commented afterwards that he didn't realise steam trains could go that fast!)<br><br>[John McIntyre 02/02/2013]](/images/41000/41924.jpg "Oxenholme")
![A Super Voyager heads north along the WCML towards Penrith. The train has just passed under the A6 road in Clifton village and is now crossing the M6 Motorway. The long closed station was some distance south of the village.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 04/02/2013]](/images/41000/41944.jpg "Clifton and Lowther")
![DRS 66305 waits with a long container train in the Up Loop at Clifton and Lowther for southbound WCML passenger services to overtake. The second line of trees above the train mark the course of the Stainmore line to Appleby (East) which diverged from the WCML just north of this point. The Down Line equivalent loop to this one is situated in Penrith itself [See image 41209]<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 04/02/2013]](/images/42000/42024.jpg "Clifton and Lowther")
![Southbound 11-coach Pendolino crossing the M6 Motorway at Clifton and Lowther, just to the south of Penrith, in February 2013.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 04/02/2013]](/images/42000/42885.jpg "Clifton and Lowther")
![A charter from Eastleigh running into Carlisle station on 23 March 2013. The train, originally scheduled to run via the S&C, had been diverted via the WCML due to snow on the Midland route. Freightliner 70013+DBS 66089 are providing the motive power for the special.<br><br>[Ken Browne 23/03/2013]](/images/42000/42887.jpg "Carlisle")
![Restored 'Jubilee' 4-6-0 no 45699 <I>Galatea</I> at Carnforth station on 8 April 2013 prior to undertaking an initial test run to Hellifield [See image 59244] [see news item]. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/04/2013]](/images/42000/42647.jpg "Carnforth")
![45699 <I>Galatea</I> rolling slowly through the platform line Carnforth on 8 April at the start of its first mainline test run to Hellifield [see image 42647]. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/04/2013]](/images/42000/42654.jpg "Carnforth")
![The <I>Great Britain VI</I> tour is fast becoming the <I>Black 5 tour</I>. Having brought the train from Central Wales to Preston the previous day Ian Riley's 44871 and 45407 also had to deputise for 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> on the 1Z60 Preston to Edinburgh section on 23 April (Their fourth outing with GBVI in four days). They are also scheduled for further legs of the tour in Scotland. The trusty duo are seen here approaching Hest Bank. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/04/2013]](/images/42000/42820.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Working in multiple, DRS 66305+66424 skirt Morecambe Bay as they power through Hest Bank with the 4S43 Daventry to Mossend <I>Eddie Stobart Tesco Express</I>.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/04/2013]](/images/42000/42961.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Colas Rail 56087 brings the Carlisle to Chirk log train through Hest Bank on 15 June 2013 in bright sunshine. Part of the closed Hest Bank level crossing box can just be seen left under the footbridge.<br><br>[John McIntyre 15/05/2013]](/images/43000/43460.jpg "Hest Bank")
![DRS 66302+66426 head 4S43 a very long 'Tesco Express' into and through Carlisle heading for Mossend<br><br>[Ken Browne 22/05/2013]](/images/43000/43297.jpg "Carlisle")
![Compared with the north end of Lancaster station, the jumble of catenary, masts and gantries at the south end makes conventional photographs quite difficult. 221105 <I>William Baffin</I> approaches on a Birmingham New St to Edinburgh service on 24 May 2013. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/05/2013]](/images/43000/43225.jpg "Lancaster")
![A heavy ballast train is double headed north through Lancaster station on 24 May. Freightliner's 66514 and 66615 are on the Down Through line, probably heading for Carlisle New Yard.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/05/2013]](/images/43000/43593.jpg "Lancaster")
![Colas Railfreight 56087 heads south through Oxenholme on 15 June with a Carlisle Yard to Chirk Kronospan log train.<br><br>[Ken Browne 15/06/2013]](/images/43000/43438.jpg "Oxenholme")
![Compass Tours charter from North Berwick to Morecambe (via the Cumbrian Coast) hauled by WCRC 47854, crosses to the down line at Hest Bank before taking the branch to Bare Lane on 15 June 2013.<br><br>[John McIntyre 15/06/2013]](/images/43000/43442.jpg "Hest Bank")
![SB Rail track tamper DR73904 heads north through Oxenholme on 15 June 2013.<br><br>[Ken Browne 15/06/2013]](/images/43000/43445.jpg "Oxenholme")
![GWR Castle class 4-6-0 5043 <I>Earl of Mount Edgcumbe</I> paired with LMS Princess Coronation Pacific <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> on the <I>Cumbrian Conqueror</I> as they thunder through Oxenholme on their way from Tyseley to Carlisle on 15 June.<br><br>[Ken Browne 15/06/2013]](/images/43000/43468.jpg "Oxenholme")
![The ecs from the Compass tours special from North Berwick to Morecambe on 15 June 2013 is hauled back for servicing at Carnforth by 47786. The train is joining the WCML off the Bare Lane route at Hest Bank. To the right are the sands of Morecambe Bay and on the horizon above the van in the yard is the town of Morecambe itself. [See image 43442]<br><br>[John McIntyre 15/06/2013]](/images/44000/44251.jpg "Hest Bank")
![With a pounding beat from its three cylinders 61994 easily lifts the heavy <I>Fellsman</I> up the bank to the south of Lancaster station. The K4 makes this tough start from Lancaster station seem quite easy, which is probably why West Coast Railways have employed it again for the 2013 season.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/06/2013]](/images/43000/43467.jpg "Lancaster")
![Six months on but still bearing the scars of the Salford fire in January 2013, West Coast Railway Brush Type 4 47500 languishes on a storage road at Carnforth shed. In happier times this loco carried the name <I>Great Western</I> [See image 40966]<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/06/2013]](/images/43000/43485.jpg "Carnforth")
![<I>Back on Parade</I>. Fresh from recent overhaul 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> takes its first revenue earning train of the 2013 season out of Carnforth Down Loops and on to the main line heading for Carlisle on 20 June. After a trip over Shap and the S&C the Scot would hand this <I>Cumbrian Mountain Express</I> back to AL6 86259 at Farington Junction.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/06/2013]](/images/43000/43491.jpg "Carnforth")
![After the steam loco shortages that plagued the 2013 Great Britain tour there has been a flurry of overhaul completions. There have been three test trips round the Hellifield loop in fairly quick succession recently with B1 61306 being followed by Scot 46115 and, on 25th June, Black 5 45231 seen here approaching Hest Bank at speed. (My thanks to John McIntyre for the tip off about this working)<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/06/2013]](/images/43000/43547.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Colas Freight 56302 (formerly 56124) powers the Carlisle to Chirk log train up the gradient to the south of Lancaster station on 26th June 2013.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/06/2013]](/images/43000/43571.jpg "Lancaster")
![46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> runs into platform 3 at Carlisle with the down <I>Fellsman</I> on 26th June 2013. I have no idea why it is carrying the <I>Scarborough Spa Express</I> headboard. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 26/06/2013]](/images/45000/45711.jpg "Carlisle")
![The returning <I>Fellsman</I> has just dropped the final passengers at Lancaster on 24 July and now the ECS is crossing the River Lune on Carlisle Bridge heading for Carnforth. K4 61994 was assisted by <I>Stratford</I> liveried 47580 as a fire risk precaution, but perhaps also celebrating the birth of Prince George two days earlier.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/07/2013]](/images/43000/43917.jpg "Lancaster")
![Light and shade looking North at Lancaster on 29th July. The train in platform 1 is the 16.55 to Millom - which station apparently has the highest traffic of any station in the UK, relative to the surrounding population. This anomaly is explained by the proximity of the BNFL plant at Sellafield.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 29/07/2013]](/images/44000/44797.jpg "Lancaster")
![<I>'We don't often meet here, do we?'</I> Scene at Lancaster station on 29 July 2013. The Voyager on the right, the 19.47 to Birmingham, was on time; but the 19.07 to Glasgow (left) was distinctly late.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 29/07/2013]](/images/44000/44909.jpg "Lancaster")
![No shortage of reds and yellows as the 08.38 to Euston coasts into Lancaster on 29th July. I seem to remember from my schooldays that the steel frame on the right is used to train rugby players to scrum down. Nice platelayer's hut standing beyond.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 29/07/2013]](/images/45000/45104.jpg "Lancaster")
![Unit 156484 is about to form the 08.36 to Morecambe as a northbound Pendolino calls at the main line platforms. I am usually at least 150 miles further South at this time of day - sadly.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 29/07/2013]](/images/45000/45421.jpg "Lancaster")
![The <I>15 Guinea Fellsman</I> ran double headed as planned on 7 August but <I>Black 5s</I> 44932 and 45231 were last minute substitutions for 45699 <I>Galatea</I> and 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I>. Complete with 1T57 reporting number on the smokebox the two 4-6-0s made a spirited climb of the bank from the start at Lancaster station. [See image 42324] <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 07/08/2013]](/images/44000/44099.jpg "Lancaster")
![Up until this point I was expecting a red <I>Galatea</I> to be piloting a green <I>Scots Guardsman</I>, but it would be churlish to complain about the sight of two locos in BR lined black. 44932 and 45231 bring the terminating down <I>Fellsman</I> into Carlisle station on 7th August 2013.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 07/08/2013]](/images/44000/44300.jpg "Carlisle")
![One quarter of the DRS Class 20 fleet passes Hest Bank level crossing on a Sellafield to Crewe working on 17 August, comprising a single wagon. 20312 (VF 1959) and 20302 (RSH 1961) are from the same era as the doomed Hest Bank box (1958) but hopefully the locos still have further useful life ahead of them.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/08/2013]](/images/44000/44241.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Now a West Coast locomotive, but still in Arriva blue livery, former <I>Thunderbird</I> 57316 stands in one of the down WCML loops at Carnforth prior to working an ECS train to York via Bentham.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/08/2013]](/images/44000/44282.jpg "Carnforth")
![Freightliner 66551 passes Carlisle Signalling Centre on 1 October with the 4S28 Fiddlers Ferry - Hunterston empties.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 11/10/2013]](/images/45000/45007.jpg "Carlisle")
![A late substitute for 45699 <I>Galatea</I>, 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I>, leaves Carnforth on 16 October with the northbound steam leg of a <I>Cumbrian Mountain Express</I> that had originated at Euston.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 16/10/2013]](/images/44000/44990.jpg "Carnforth")
![A London Midland class 350 EMU on hire to TransPennine Express for driver training departs the middle road at Carlisle on 17 October 2013 on its way back to Preston.<br><br>[Ken Browne 17/10/2013]](/images/46000/46016.jpg "Carlisle")
![DBS 92002 moves 4S43 Daventry to Mossend Tesco Containers through platform 1 at Carlisle on 17 October.<br><br>[Ken Browne 17/10/2013]](/images/46000/46019.jpg "Carlisle")
![DRS 57309 arrives at Carlisle platform 5 on 17 October 2013 on a driver training run.<br><br>[Ken Browne 17/10/2013]](/images/46000/46063.jpg "Carlisle")
![Crossing from the Barrow line platform to the Up Main line as it leaves Carnforth is Northern 150145. The train is the daily Leeds to Heysham Port service, which will reverse at Lancaster and Morecambe before connecting with the Douglas sailing. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/10/2013]](/images/45000/45128.jpg "Carnforth")
![A BLS charter from Carnforth to Liverpool Road station in Manchester on 3 November 2013. Once the terminus of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, today the location is the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. This may be one of the last trains to access the site from the network as the connection will be lost with construction of the Ordsall Curve. The 4 coach special is seen returning to Carnforth with WCRC 37706 leading and 47760 on the rear as it passes Balshaw Lane Junction.<br><br>[John McIntyre 03/11/2013]](/images/45000/45286.jpg "Carnforth")
![On Day 1 of the new timetable TransPennine Express used its own EMU for driver training in place of the hired London Midland set. The almost new and still unliveried 350401 heads north on the coast at Hest Bank on 9 December. These Preston - Carlisle trips are timetabled on an as required basis until May 2014.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 09/12/2013]](/images/45000/45569.jpg "Hest Bank")
![DRS 37606 leads a single flask from Sellafield to Heysham and sister EE Type 3 37688 past the disused signal box and onto the chord to Bare Lane on 18th December 2013. I originally entitled this image <I>The once a week crossover</I> but have since found that an early morning ECS working from Barrow Cariage Sidings to Morecambe also uses it. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 18/12/2013]](/images/45000/45683.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Diverging onto the Bare Lane chord at Hest Bank on 18 December is this trip working to Heysham Power Station from Sellafield. DRS 37688 brings up the rear of the train conveying a single flask led by 37606. The train will reverse at Morecambe to access the Heysham branch. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 18/12/2013]](/images/45000/45707.jpg "Hest Bank")
![DB Schenker class 60 No.60020 arrives at Penrith on 4 January with an engineers train from Crewe Basford Hall.<br><br>[Ken Browne 04/01/2014]](/images/46000/46045.jpg "Penrith")
![Freightliner 66555 takes coal empties from Fiddlers Ferry Power Station to Hunterston through Carnforth on 9 January 2014. The train is just passing the area Network Rail office. In the foreground is a surviving remnant of the old main line Down platform. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 09/01/2014]](/images/45000/45904.jpg "Carnforth")
![45699 <I>Galatea</I> passing below Warton Crags north of Carnforth on 1 February as it gets to grips with the second leg of the <I>Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express</I> to Carlisle.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/02/2014]](/images/46000/46160.jpg "Carnforth")
![Not an everyday sight at Carnforth. Deltic 55002 <I>The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry</I> arrives on 1 February 2014, returning two coaches that had been borrowed for the move of <I>Duchess of Hamilton</I> from Shildon to York earlier in the week.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/02/2014]](/images/46000/46169.jpg "Carnforth")
![Freightliner 66620 departs from No2 Up & Down Goods loop at Carnforth with 6Y30 Crewe Basford Hall to Penrith engineers working on 1 February 2014.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/02/2014]](/images/46000/46174.jpg "Carnforth")
![New DRS Class 68 locomotive 68002 prior to departure from Carlisle on 5 February with a test run to Crewe. <br><br>[Ken Browne 05/02/2014]](/images/46000/46278.jpg "Carlisle")
![90020 leading new DRS 68002 about to depart from Carlisle on 5 February with a test run to Crewe. <br><br>[Ken Browne 05/02/2014]](/images/46000/46301.jpg "Carlisle")
![The no 2 end of new DRS Class 68 loco 68002 <I>Intrepid</I> at Carlisle during testing operations on 5 February 2014. Note the data transfer cables between the first coach and the locomotive.<br><br>[Ken Browne 05/02/2014]](/images/46000/46309.jpg "Carlisle")
![Colas Railfreight 56087 passing through Carlisle station on 5 February 2014 with the Kingmoor - Chirk log train.<br><br>[Ken Browne 05/02/2014]](/images/46000/46320.jpg "Carlisle")
![DRS 20309+37423 pass through Carlisle on 5 February during a light engine move to Crewe.<br><br>[Ken Browne 05/02/2014]](/images/46000/46327.jpg "Carlisle")
![The memorial at Tebay to four track workers, Colin Buckley, Darren Burgess, Gary Tindall and Chris Waters who were killed by a runaway PW trolley on 15 February 2004 while maintaining the railway. The WCML is on the other side of the wall to the left.<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/02/2014]](/images/46000/46304.jpg "Tebay")
![DRS EE Type 3s 37601 and 37425 trundle slowly southwards on the WCML at Bolton-le-Sands on 20 February. The train, comprising two empty flasks from Sellafield for Heysham Power Station, will take the chord at Hest Bank for the Morecambe Branch.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/02/2014]](/images/46000/46393.jpg "Bolton-le-Sands")
![DRS 37425 brings up the rear of a Heysham flask working heading south at Bolton-le-Sands on 20 February with 37601 leading. The train will shortly branch right at Hest Bank onto the chord for Morecambe.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/02/2014]](/images/47000/47041.jpg "Bolton-le-Sands")
![K4 2-6-0 61994 <I>The Great Marquess</I> passing through Hest Bank on a trip from Crewe Heritage Centre to the Worth Valley on 5 March (via Carnforth and the Little North Western route to Settle Junction). <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/03/2014]](/images/46000/46527.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Although the new TPE 350 EMUs are now working alternately with the diesel units on the Manchester-Scotland services the crew training ECS runs between Preston and Carlisle continue. 350404, like all the units still unbranded, heads north passing Lancaster on the through lines at 0740 on 14 March.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 14/03/2014]](/images/46000/46656.jpg "Lancaster")
![Steam substitute on Shap. D1755 northbound over Shap on 15 March 2014 with the <I>Cumbrian Ranger</I> from Tyseley to Carlisle. The diesel had taken over from the scheduled steam locomotive 4464 <I>Bittern</I> at Carnforth due to <I>'gauging issues'</I> with the A4. [See image 46643]<br><br>[Jim Peebles 15/03/2014]](/images/46000/46651.jpg "Shap")
![A4 4464 <I>Bittern</I> with support coach heading north over Shap on 15 March 2014. [See image 46651] [Editors note: The 'gauging issues' appear to concern platform clearance at Carlisle, relating to the valances fitted to 4464]<br><br>[Jim Peebles 15/03/2014]](/images/46000/46660.jpg "Shap")
![After several months of running in plain grey livery, First branding is starting to appear on the TPE Class 350s. 350405, passing Carnforth on a Manchester Airport to Glasgow Central service, is one of the first to receive the new vinyls.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 09/04/2014]](/images/46000/46931.jpg "Carnforth")
![67005 <I>Queen's Messenger</I> heads the Royal Train northwards through Carnforth on 9 April 2014 conveying HRH The Prince of Wales to Oxenholme on a visit to Cumbria. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 09/04/2014]](/images/46000/46961.jpg "Carnforth")
![Silver liveried 67026 <I>Diamond Jubilee</I> brings up the rear on the Royal Train passing Carnforth on 9 April 2014 conveying HRH The Prince of Wales to Oxenholme.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 09/04/2014]](/images/47000/47127.jpg "Carnforth")
![The West Coast Depot at Carnforth is not easy to see, except from passing trains on the Barrow line, hence this grab shot of the depot yard on 28 April. EE Type 3 37706 is idling on one of the depot roads, alongside two Brush Type 4s, one of which appears to be undergoing an engine or generator transplant. In addition to two Class 08 yard shunters, WCRC maintains an operational fleet of around twenty main line diesels of Classes 33, 37, 47 and 57. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/04/2014]](/images/47000/47260.jpg "Carnforth")
![A long way from the Channel Tunnel - 92037 heading South with containers past an NR acess point on 23rd May.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 23/05/2014]](/images/47000/47746.jpg "Low Gill [1st]")
![Colas Rail 56094 approaching Oxenholme on 29 May with the Carlisle - Chirk 'logs'.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/05/2014]](/images/47000/47511.jpg "Oxenholme")
![A Glasgow - Euston Pendolino draws away from Oxenholme on 29 May 2014.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/05/2014]](/images/47000/47649.jpg "Oxenholme")
![TransPennine 185144 on the Windermere branch shuttle at Oxenholme on 29 May.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/05/2014]](/images/47000/47703.jpg "Oxenholme")
![With 86259 waiting in the sidings, Stanier 8F no. 48151 takes the <I>Cumbrian Coast Express</I> out onto the main line to Carlisle following the loco swap at Carnforth on 14 June 2014.<br><br>[John McIntyre 14/06/2014]](/images/47000/47682.jpg "Carnforth")
![86259 returns the <I>Cumbrian Coast Express</I> south on the on 14 June 2014, seen here at Lancaster. [See image 47672]<br><br>[John McIntyre 14/06/2014]](/images/47000/47711.jpg "Lancaster")
![45699 <I>Galatea</I> stabled in the station sidings at Carlisle on 18 June after working in on <I>The Fellsman</I>.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/06/2014]](/images/48000/48926.jpg "Carlisle")
![Interesting motive power combination on the Crewe-Sellafield train on 26th June 2014. DRS 57007 pilots one of the few remaining DRS EE Type 1s, 20304, and three nuclear flasks as they take the Down Fast through Lancaster station. The locos stayed together for the day and worked the evening service back to Crewe with 20304 leading.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/06/2014]](/images/47000/47768.jpg "Lancaster")
![General relief at Lancaster Platform 5 on 7th July 2014 as the 1118 arrival from Carlisle via the Cumbrian Coast proves not to be the rumoured Pacer railbus but the relatively luxurious 156463.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 07/07/2014]](/images/48000/48287.jpg "Lancaster")
![The interior of the 1902 covered walkway at Lancaster station on a sunny 7th July 2014.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 07/07/2014]](/images/48000/48304.jpg "Lancaster")
![Two new DRS Class 68s, 68006 and 68007 (with Brush Type 4 47841 sandwiched between them), made a transfer run from Crewe Gresty Bridge to Kingmoor on 4th August. The northbound trio is seen here approaching Hest Bank level crossing. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 04/08/2014]](/images/48000/48241.jpg "Hest Bank")
![A 'brief encounter' with the famous station clock at Carnforth on 7 August 2014. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 07/08/2014]](/images/49000/49725.jpg "Carnforth")
![Two brand new Class 68s, 68011 and 68010, in Chiltern Trains livery, running light engine from Crewe to Carlisle on 20th August 2014.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/08/2014]](/images/48000/48412.jpg "Lancaster")
![<I>Fun and games at Lancaster</I>. Black 5 45231 with the <I>Fellsman</I> stock stands on the Up Fast line at Lancaster having been wrongly routed there by Preston PSB instead of into Platform 4 where around a hundred passengers were waiting. Fortunately, the Class 37 on the rear was allowed to set back with the train so the service got away to Preston without too much delay. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/08/2014]](/images/48000/48418.jpg "Lancaster")
![The Lune Gorge, with a <I>Virgin Super Voyager</I> heading north on a Euston to Glasgow (via Birmingham) service on 5 September. The train is passing Dillicar Common, although the famous Dillicar water troughs were some way north of this point. The M6, running on two levels, is close by the line here and the Tebay to Kendal road can be seen climbing across the hillside. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/09/2014]](/images/48000/48618.jpg "Dillicar")
![A London bound Pendolino hurries south through Grayrigg on 5 September. Immediately behind the train the points where the Up Loop rejoins the main line can be seen. Long closed Grayrigg station and the still used loops are behind the camera. Often photographed in steam days, Grayrigg station is now a mass of catenary and gantries surrounded by trees and no longer accessible. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/09/2014]](/images/48000/48631.jpg "Grayrigg")
![High above the River Lune a <I>Super Voyager</I> rounds the bend into the Lune Gorge and passes Dillicar Common as it heads north on what is, despite the adjacent M6 Motorway, one of the most scenic stretches of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/09/2014]](/images/48000/48647.jpg "Dillicar")
![The 19.29 for Euston rushes into Oxenholme on Saturday evening 6 September. The class 185 at platform 3 on the far left is about to depart for Windermere [see image 27663].<br><br>[Ken Strachan 06/09/2014]](/images/48000/48652.jpg "Oxenholme")
![On reflection, there is no going back for the 19.57 to Birmingham New Street at Lancaster on 6th September.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 06/09/2014]](/images/48000/48882.jpg "Lancaster")
![Under the canopy on Lancaster's platform 5 [see image 24912] on 6 September. Unit 153351 seems to have found a friend with whom to share its next journey.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 06/09/2014]](/images/48000/48893.jpg "Lancaster")
![Northern 156489 has just arrived at Lancaster platform 2 on 6 September. The moss encrusted tank in the foreground appears to be an air tank for pneumatic buffers.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 06/09/2014]](/images/48000/48996.jpg "Lancaster")
![46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> brings the down <I>Cumbrian Mountain Express</I> from Crewe into Carlisle on Saturday 6th September 2014, another fine day in what had been a better than average summer.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 06/09/2014]](/images/49000/49182.jpg "Carlisle")
![DRS 66301 with a lightly loaded Coatbridge-Daventry container train at Morecambe South Junction on 11 September 2014. The train is passing between the supports for the M6-Heysham Link Road bridge that opened in October 2016 as the <I>Bay Gateway</I>. [Ref query 7165] <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/09/2014]](/images/48000/48728.jpg "Morecambe South Junction")
![K4 61994 <I>The Great Marquess</I> storms up Shap on 19 September crossing the bridge at Scout Green with the 2014 Railway Touring Company <I>West Highlander Steam Express</I>. The 2-6-0 took charge of this leg of the four-day tour from Preston to Glasgow.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/09/2014]](/images/48000/48764.jpg "Scout Green")
![A TPE 350 EMU, bound for Manchester Airport, runs through the open countryside between Harrisons Sidings and Shap village on 20th September. The Lake District Fells, normally clearly visible in the distance from the vantage point on the A6 road, are hidden beneath low cloud on this occasion. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/09/2014]](/images/48000/48769.jpg "Shap")
![Part way down the long descent of Shap Bank, TPE 350410 passes Scout Green on 19 September with a service from Scotland to Manchester Airport. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/09/2014]](/images/49000/49062.jpg "Scout Green")
![Trans Pennine EMUs meet at speed near Hest Bank on 30th September. 350409, on the left, is bound for Manchester Airport while 350405 is heading north on a service for Glasgow Central. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/09/2014]](/images/48000/48879.jpg "Hest Bank")
![A Virgin <I>Super Voyager</I> speeds south through patches of early morning mist at Hest Bank on 16 October with the 0550 Glasgow to Euston (via Birmingham) service. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 16/10/2014]](/images/49000/49074.jpg "Hest Bank")
![45690 <I>Leander</I> at Lancaster on 16 October. The Jubilee had left Carnforth just before midday on a test run, complete with support coach. The test involved a round trip to Hellifield, returning to Carnforth around 4 hours later.<br><br>[John McIntyre 16/10/2014]](/images/49000/49077.jpg "Carnforth")
![45690 <I>Leander</I> reverses into platform 2 at Carnforth on 16 October 2014 to get into position for a test run to Hellifield. Now in early BR lined black livery it will make an interesting comparison with 45699 <I>Galatea</I>.<br><br>[John McIntyre 16/10/2014]](/images/49000/49082.jpg "Carnforth")
![Preserved Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45690 <I>Leander</I> takes the Hellifield line as it sets off past Carnforth Station Junction signal box on 16 October 2014 during a test run.<br><br>[John McIntyre 16/10/2014]](/images/49000/49088.jpg "Carnforth")
![The morning Crewe - Sellafield nuclear flask train runs alongside Morecambe Bay at Hest Bank on 16 October behind DRS 37602 and 37610.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 16/10/2014]](/images/49000/49089.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Light work for a Type 3. A very grubby DRS 37409 <I>'Lord Hinton'</I>, presumably on a break from Sandite duties, takes a much cleaner MkII Brake from Kingmoor to Crewe Gresty Bridge through Hest Bank on 22nd October. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/10/2014]](/images/49000/49156.jpg "Hest Bank")
![The old railway weighbridge and associated goods yard offices at Sedbergh, Cumbria, in October 2014. Closure to goods took place in 1964 and since then the yard and goods shed have been occupied by a local fuel and agricultural feeds merchant. [Photograph with kind permission of site owner.] [Ref query 15967]<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/10/2014]](/images/49000/49353.jpg "Sedbergh")
![The old goods shed and the concrete provender store at Sedbergh have been used by Dawsons merchants since they railway yard closed in 1964. The mainline ran to the right of the buildings but a short section of old siding is still in place in front of the large sliding door. Local passenger services ceased in 1954 but school specials and diversions continued into the 1960s. The passenger station survives but under different ownership and is not accessible. Picture taken with kind permission of site owner. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/10/2014]](/images/49000/49371.jpg "Sedbergh")
![Two Class 37s take the Down Fast through Lancaster station on 6 November, avoiding the platform road. DRS 37610 and 37602 are on the morning Crewe - Sellafield nuclear flasks service.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 06/11/2014]](/images/49000/49435.jpg "Lancaster")
![Despite the storms battering the UK on 11th December the Christmas mail was still getting through. DBS 90036 <I>Driver Jack Mills</I> was still bright and shiny following its naming ceremony at Crewe the previous week as it hauled a rake of cargo waggons through Hest Bank on the Shieldmuir to Warrington return trip that has supplemented the usual postals during December. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/12/2014]](/images/49000/49732.jpg "Hest Bank")
![<I>Pullman</I> liveried 47790 leads a <I>Northern Belle</I> tour through Hest Bank on 16 December heading for Barrow-in-Furness. The train originated in Crewe and ran via Manchester and Bolton with 47818 on the rear. [See image 46137] of the same loco in an earlier guise on more mundane duties. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 16/12/2014]](/images/49000/49779.jpg "Hest Bank")
![In the gathering gloom at dusk on the shortest day of 2014, Freightliner 66545 takes a train of empty coal hoppers north alongside the shore at Hest Bank. The postal train that should have passed at this time was running twenty minutes late, by which time all remaining light had gone. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/12/2014]](/images/49000/49863.jpg "Hest Bank")
![The last <I>Christmas Postal Extra</I> of 2014 heads south behind DBS electric 90035. The train is passing the Hest Bank livery stables approaching the level crossing on 23rd December. The return trip from Sheildmuir to Warrington has been made on most weekdays in December. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/12/2014]](/images/49000/49851.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Sorry looking Brush Type 4 47194 <I>Bullidea,</I> stored at Carnforth for nearly ten years now, stands alongside a part dismantled 0-4-0ST and the chassis of a Bulleid Pacific on 5 January 2015. The latter is probably 34073 <I>249 Squadron</I> which is undergoing restoration by West Coast Railways. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/01/2015]](/images/49000/49960.jpg "Carnforth")
![A tired and well worn 47368 stands in the scrap and recovery area at Carnforth Depot on 5 January 2015. The ex-Fragonset Brush 4 was purchased by West Coast in late 2006 but hasn't run since and is slowly losing its components to other West Coast operational locos. [See image 40169] A Barrow bound TPE 185 runs past the site in the background.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/01/2015]](/images/49000/49978.jpg "Carnforth")
![Two woebegone EE Type 3s stand in a line of stored stock at Carnforth on 5 January 2015. Loadhaul liveried 37517 is buffered up to an old 0-6-0F fireless steam locomotive that once worked at Lancaster Power Station [see image 27042]. Next in line is a centre cab diesel shunter and then Railfreight liveried 37165.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/01/2015]](/images/49000/49994.jpg "Carnforth")
![47776 stands among the scrap and other stored locos in the component recovery area at the West Coast Railways Carnforth Depot on 5 January 2015. The RES Brush 4, which has been here since 2007, is flanked by 47368 and 47526 with operational shunter 08418 just visible behind.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/01/2015]](/images/50000/50018.jpg "Carnforth")
![Another West Coast Railways spares donor photographed at Carnforth on 5 January 2015. Former Rail Express Systems Brush Type 4, 47492 (D1760), stands among other withdrawn locos providing parts to keep the West Coast main line Class 47 fleet in service. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/01/2015]](/images/50000/50100.jpg "Carnforth")
![The first <I>Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express</I> of 2015 passes through Penrith North Lakes with Black 5 45407 in charge. The Jubilee <I>Leander</I> was to have double headed with 45407 but was failed on the morning of the tour.<br><br>[Ken Browne 24/01/2015]](/images/50000/50291.jpg "Penrith")
![Brief exposure: looking South out of the famous (and recommended) re-opened Refreshment Rooms at Carnforth in January 2015, everything is nostalgic - arguably including the class 156 on the right, which has just come off the Cumbrian Coast line.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/01/2015]](/images/50000/50215.jpg "Carnforth")
![The film <I>'Brief Encounter'</I> seems to be playing continuously at this mini-cinema in the museum in the Carnforth station building. My wife assures me that the seats are very comfortable.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/01/2015]](/images/50000/50228.jpg "Carnforth")
![The late running 18.27 to Manchester Airport is about to leave Lancaster platform 5 on 28th September 2015.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/01/2015]](/images/50000/50237.jpg "Lancaster")
![An original poster for the 1945 film <I>Brief Encounter</I>, much of which was shot at Carnforth station, on display there 70 years on.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/01/2015]](/images/50000/50252.jpg "Carnforth")
![There's no need to take the hump. Carnforth station building - carrying the significant addendum 'and Heritage Centre' is sandwiched between a car park speed bump and a tree branch in this view taken from a rather breezy bus stop in January 2015. [See image 27391]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/01/2015]](/images/50000/50260.jpg "Carnforth")
![Wonderful patina. Another view [see image 50215] of the refreshment rooms at Carnforth station. Highly recommended, along with the adjacent museum.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/01/2015]](/images/50000/50270.jpg "Carnforth")
![156451 is about to take the scenic route to Carlisle (along the Cumbrian coast) in this view looking North at Carnforth.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/01/2015]](/images/62000/62521.jpg "Carnforth")
![46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> leaves the Carnforth loops on 31st January with a <I>Cumbrian Mountain Express</I> charter, its first outing of 2015. The train had started from Euston and was hauled to Carnforth by two WCRC Brush Type 4s due to the failure of the booked electric locomotive, 86259 <I>Les Ross</I>. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 31/01/2015]](/images/50000/50197.jpg "Carnforth")
![Large logo Brush 4 47526 has been donating spares to other West Coast Class 47 and 57 locos since 2007, including it seems one of its buffers. Recently moved into a more visible position the former D1109 is seen in Carnforth yard on 31st January 2015. [See image 12165] <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 31/01/2015]](/images/50000/50205.jpg "Carnforth")
![Stanier Pacific 46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> speeds northbound through Penrith on 31 January with the second <I>Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express</I> of 2015.<br><br>[Ken Browne 31/01/2015]](/images/50000/50320.jpg "Penrith")
![The deck of the new Heysham link road bridge was put in place over the WCML near Morecambe South Junction in January 2015. 150224 passes under the new structure on 9th February on a Morecambe to Leeds working that has just left the Morecambe branch. [See image 48728] taken a few months earlier. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 09/02/2015]](/images/50000/50297.jpg "Morecambe South Junction")
![With a bright yellow front end that was in marked contrast to the rest of the paintwork, Freightliner 66524 works empty hoppers from Fiddlers Ferry to Hunterston through Hest Bank on 10th February 2015.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 10/02/2015]](/images/50000/50333.jpg "Hest Bank")
![A <I>Six Nations</I> special from Carmarthen to Edinburgh, in connection with the Scotland-Wales match two days later, runs north through Hest Bank behind DRS 68005 <I>Defiant</I> on Friday 13th February 2015. The train was scheduled to return south again the following Monday.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/02/2015]](/images/50000/50354.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Kirkby Lonsdale station, from the overbridge at the south end of the station site looking north towards Sedbergh and Low Gill. The station closed in 1954 although trains passed through until 1966. The green farm building and the extension to the station occupy the old trackbed. [See image 36038] [Ref query 7917] <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 14/02/2015]](/images/50000/50497.jpg "Kirkby Lonsdale")
![A very rare duty for a Class 158. The <I>Little North Western</I> services are usually in the hands of Pacers and 150 Sprinters but on 17th February 158908 was used. The West Yorkshire unit is seen coming off the chord from Bare Lane to join the WCML at Hest Bank on the 1605 from Lancaster (via Morecambe) to Leeds.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/02/2015]](/images/50000/50398.jpg "Hest Bank")
![92010, on a light engine movement from Rugby to Mossend, passes TPE 350405 heading for Manchester Airport at Hest Bank on 17th February. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/02/2015]](/images/50000/50416.jpg "Hest Bank")
![A Lancaster to Leeds working passes the disused signal box at Hest Bank on 17 February heading for Carnforth. Trains usually pass over the crossing at high speed but 158908 had just come off the Morecambe branch chord at around 15mph making it easier to capture. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/02/2015]](/images/50000/50426.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Stored ex-Fragonset 47355 languishing in the component recovery yard at Carnforth in Febuary 2015. Externally it is probably the most presentable of the Brush 4s there. In October 1971, as D1816, it was involved in a fatal crash at Beattock having run away down the bank with a loaded steel train. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 27/02/2015]](/images/50000/50239.jpg "Carnforth")
![47746 <I>Chris Fudge 29.7.70 - 22.6.10</I>, fresh from its naming that day, brings a Brush Type 4 Fund private charter back towards Carnforth following a day trip to Stratford-on-Avon via Tamworth. 47746 was previously owned by the BT4F but is now part of the West Coast Railways fleet.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 02/03/2015]](/images/50000/50596.jpg "Hest Bank")
![DRS 57012 and 57002, on the Down Fast line through Lancaster station on 13 March taking three nuclear flasks from Crewe to Sellafield. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/03/2015]](/images/50000/50638.jpg "Lancaster")
![Crossing the River Lune in Lancaster is a DRS Class 66 heading a Daventry to Coatbridge container train. In this view of Carlisle Bridge from Williamson Park Morecambe Bay is clearly visible, as are the Furness hills beyond.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 15/04/2015]](/images/51000/51004.jpg "Lancaster")
![A Mossend to Daventry container service is double headed through Hest Bank by DBS 90036 and 90026 on 21st April 2015.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 21/04/2015]](/images/51000/51222.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Crossing the low bridge over Torrisholme Road in Lancaster on 12th May 2015 is ex-Thameslink 319366, on yet another Northern driver training run between Preston and Carnforth. The train has just crossed the River Lune and is now approaching the junction for the Morecambe branch. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 12/05/2015]](/images/51000/51281.jpg "Lancaster")
![The 2015 timetable sees the welcome introduction of two loco hauled diagrams on the Cumbrian Coast line. On weekday mornings one of the sets makes a return run through to Preston and on Saturdays there is a return trip to Lancaster. On the first day of operations, DRS 37605 is seen in atrocious weather at Hest Bank on its way to Barrow-in-Furness with a four-coach train worked down from Carlisle to Preston that morning. ETS fitted 37419 was on the rear. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 18/05/2015]](/images/51000/51329.jpg "Hest Bank")
![<I>Life in the fast lane</I>. DRS 66421 takes the Up Fast Line through Lancaster (Castle), ensuring a flying start to the climb of the bank that lies south of the station. The train is the 429P 0428 Coatbridge to Daventry container service.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/05/2015]](/images/51000/51372.jpg "Lancaster")
![With West Coast Railway's troubles hopefully behind them an extended <I>Fellsman</I> season got underway on 27th May with 45699 <I>Galatea</I> taking the first train of the 2015 season out of Lancaster. <I>Fellsman</I> trains are scheduled to run every Wednesday until 26th August. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 27/05/2015]](/images/51000/51438.jpg "Lancaster")
![Humble duty for <I>Northern Belle</I> liveried 57312 <I>Solway Princess</I> and a DRS classmate as they drop down the bank tgowards Lancaster with the morning Crewe to Sellafield flasks on 4th June 2015. The second loco is probably 57306 as the pair had worked flasks from Berkeley to Crewe the previous evening. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 04/06/2015]](/images/51000/51523.jpg "Lancaster")
![DRS EE Type 3 37402 leads the 0515 Carlisle to Preston (via Barrow) service through Hest Bank on 5th June 2015. 37609 was bringing up the rear on this leg of the diagram. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/06/2015]](/images/51000/51539.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Colas 60087, with a Carlisle to Chirk log train on 16th June 2015, powers past the bridge at Elmsfield just south of Milnthorpe. The logs can be routed over Shap or via the S&C but when on the WCML take a leisurely five hours to get as far as Preston, with scheduled loops at Plumpton, Eden Valley, Grayrigg, Oxenholme and Oubeck although individual stops are sometimes omitted.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 16/06/2015]](/images/51000/51680.jpg "Milnthorpe")
![DRS 66303, with a Daventry to Coatbridge container service, runs north between the bridges at Elmsfield on 16th June 2015. The land in the foreground has been made into an engineers' access point with a ramp leading down from the bridge embankment. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 16/06/2015]](/images/51000/51697.jpg "Milnthorpe")
![<I>A Classic Traction Quintet</I>. DCR 31601 <I>Devon Diesel Society</I> leads four BKR diesels through the rain at Hest Bank on 13th July, returning to Bo'ness after the ELR diesel gala. Dead in train are 37025, 20020, 47643 and 26038.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/07/2015]](/images/51000/51953.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Class 26 26038 <I>Tom Clift 1954-2012</I> brings up the rear on a convoy of preserved diesels seen at Hest Bank on 13th July heading back to Bo'ness after the 2015 ELR Diesel Gala [See image 51953]. The last time I had seen a BRCW Type 2 on the WCML was in 1987 when a convoy of four Class 27s heading for the Vic Berry scrapyard passed through Garstang. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/07/2015]](/images/51000/51962.jpg "Hest Bank")
![46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> wheels the empty stock of <I>The Fellsman</I> through a sunny Hest Bank on the 15th July 2015. The train is on the short run from Carnforth to its first pick up point in Lancaster. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 15/07/2015]](/images/51000/51970.jpg "Hest Bank")
![<I>Black 5</I> 45231 leaves Lancaster with <I>The Fellsman</I> on 22nd July 2015. The signal in the foreground of this image from Haverbreaks has the <I>feather</I> set for a train to use Platform 3.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/07/2015]](/images/52000/52037.jpg "Lancaster")
![More often than not this turns out to be my first shot of the day when I visit Carlisle to see the Fellsman or Dalesman - I particularly like the way that the light is reflected off the side of the loco / tender and it isn’t dependent on there being blazing sunshine outside. On 13 August 2015 there was even a decent amount of smoke drifting from the chimney as 45699 <I>Galatea</I> ran into platform 3 with the arriving Dalesman.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/08/2015]](/images/52000/52434.jpg "Carlisle")
![45699 <I>Galatea</I> brews up in platform 3 at Carlisle on 13 August 2015, shortly before setting off with the up Dalesman for York, which it will work as far as Hellifield.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/08/2015]](/images/52000/52445.jpg "Carlisle")
![Jubilee No. 45699 <I>Galatea</I> has been halted on the centre road at Carlisle while running tender first out to Upperby after arrival with the Dalesman charter on 25 August 2015. The crew members are obviously not expecting the signal to change any time soon as their attention has been attracted by something more interesting in the opposite direction!<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 25/08/2015]](/images/52000/52412.jpg "Carlisle")
![Cumbrian Coast loco hauled services have now gone over to push-pull operation with a single Class 37/4 replacing the previous top & tail use of two locomotives. On 27th August 2015, newly refurbished DBSO 9707 led the 0515 Carlisle to Preston service through Hest Bank, propelled by <I>large logo</I> 37401 <I>Mary Queen of Scots</I>. The train was unusually formed of only three coaches.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 27/08/2015]](/images/52000/52384.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Recently returned to service with DRS, 37401 <I>Mary Queen of Scots</I> has retained its large logo livery and made a fine sight on 27th August 2015 propelling the 0515 Carlisle to Preston service through Hest Bank.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 27/08/2015]](/images/52000/52396.jpg "Hest Bank")
![37409 <I>Lord Hinton</I> takes the daily Preston to Barrow-in-Furness loco hauled service away from Carnforth on 10 September. On the rear is refurbished DBSO 9707, which had led the train from Carlisle to Preston. The section of platform on the right is now out of use and rather neglected compared to the rest of the station.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 10/09/2015]](/images/52000/52568.jpg "Carnforth")
![With their enthusiastic following, all the Class 37s used on Cumbrian Coast passenger services could be classed as <I>celebrities</I>. However, 37401 <I>Mary Queen of Scots</I>, in its West Highland livery, is a bit special and made a fine sight in Lancaster on 11th September 2015 with the weekday 1004 Preston to Barrow-in-Furness service.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/09/2015]](/images/53000/53155.jpg "Lancaster")
![LMS Jubilee no.45690 Leander hauls a railtour south at Elmsfield on the WCML between Oxenholme and Carnforth on 12 September 2015.<br><br>[John McIntyre 12/09/2015]](/images/52000/52736.jpg "Milnthorpe")
![Construction work at Leyland on 26 September 2015 as viewed from the footbridge. The car park on the left side has been taken over as the site yard, all the platform shelters, almost all the seats have been removed and barriers erected as work commences to construct a new footbridge.<br><br>[John McIntyre 26/09/2015]](/images/52000/52745.jpg "Leyland")
![The <I>Entente Cordiale</I>, a private charter from Carnforth to Spean Bridge, runs through Clifton and Lowther on 23rd October 2015. The train comprised West Coast 57601, complete with headboard and Anglo-French bunting, and six gleaming Pullman coaches. Photographed from the bridge at Grid Reference NY541257. The old station, closed in 1938, lay just beyond the three arch bridge.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/10/2015]](/images/53000/53019.jpg "Clifton and Lowther")
![Euston bound 390121 speeds past the Eden Goods Loop at Clifton and Lowther on 23rd October 2015. The tracks are widening at this point because they pass under a twin arch bridge. (Grid Reference NY541257)<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/10/2015]](/images/53000/53021.jpg "Clifton and Lowther")
![90039, in faded EWS livery, heads the Christmas extra postal south through Hest bank on 211215. This year these trains have made daily return trips between the Sheildmuir and Warrington mail terminals on December weekdays. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 21/12/2015]](/images/53000/53671.jpg "Hest Bank")
![A special ECS movement from Glasgow to Burton-on-Trent, presumably conveying coaches that had been used on the Forth Bridge extra services, makes a colourful spectacle as it heads south through Hest Bank behind Freightliner 90045. Rather unusually for December 2015 the train passed Lancashire in bright sunshine. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/12/2015]](/images/53000/53645.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Following a northbound Pendolino into Carlisle on 5 January was this TPExpress with Lockerbie as the destination. The Newcastle line was also closed so it was pandemonium with buses outside. The Virgin staff were very helpful.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 05/01/2016]](/images/53000/53816.jpg "Carlisle")
![A pair of red and gold DBS Class 90s take the Dollands Moor to Irvine china clay tanks through Carnforth on 20th January 2016. 90020 <I>Collingwood</I> is working in multiple with 90039 but, due to the ongoing Lamington viaduct repairs, they will be replaced by diesel traction at Kingmoor rather than Mossend. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/01/2016]](/images/53000/53976.jpg "Carnforth")
![Black 5s 44871 and 45407 head the return Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express railtour south through the Lune Gorge on 23 January 2016. This was supposed to have been the inaugural mainline working of Flying Scotsman but a few jobs are still to be completed before the loco is ready and the IR Black 5s were substituted. IR in this case is Ian Riley not International Rescue although the Black 5s do perform an admirable Thunderbird role.<br><br>[John McIntyre 23/01/2016]](/images/54000/54008.jpg "Dillicar")
![A Daventry to Coatbridge Freightliner container train rounds the curve between Grayrigg loops and Low Gill in the early afternoon of 23 January 2016.<br><br>[John McIntyre 23/01/2016]](/images/54000/54021.jpg "Grayrigg")
![Ex LMS black fives 44871+45407 heading south on 1z63 Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express from Carlisle to Manchester.<br><br>[Ken Browne 23/01/2016]](/images/55000/55621.jpg "Penrith")
![Stanier Pacific 46233 'Duchess of Sutherland' makes a fine sight as she hauls the Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express northbound through Oxenholme just before midday on 30 January 2016.<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/01/2016]](/images/54000/54059.jpg "Oxenholme")
![A Northern Class 153 arrives at Lancaster with a service from Morecambe on 30 January 2016. On the adjacent platform there were two Class 153s stabled between services.<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/01/2016]](/images/54000/54077.jpg "Lancaster")
![Travelling through Penrith station, at the line speed of 75mph, 46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> takes the <I>Cumbrian Mountain Express</I> towards Carlisle on 30th January 2016. On the return journey the train traversed the S&C route.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/01/2016]](/images/54000/54084.jpg "Penrith")
![46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> takes the Cumbrian Mountain Express through Penrith on 30th January 2016. It was scheduled to repeat the trip the following week but 60103 made its inaugural run instead. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/01/2016]](/images/54000/54202.jpg "Penrith")
![350406, on a TPE service from Manchester Airport, calls at Penrith on 30th January 2016. As this was during the period of the Lamington closure this train was terminating at Lockerbie rather than going through to Glasgow or Edinburgh. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/01/2016]](/images/54000/54295.jpg "Penrith")
![The inaugural public run of restored 60103 <I>Flying Scotsman</I> on 6th Feburary 2016 started in appalling weather but, despite this, vantage points were full of spectators. Soon after departure from Carnforth the A3 is seen approaching the over bridge at Elmsfield near Milnthorpe. The smoke deflectors are clearly needed for main line running - what would the view ahead at this point have been without them?<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 06/02/2016]](/images/54000/54117.jpg "Milnthorpe")
![Possibly on a test run after repair, Freightliner 66598 ran light engine from Crewe to Carnforth and back on 12th February 2016. The loco is seen here on the northbound leg running past the incoming tide on a sunny afternoon at Hest Bank.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 12/02/2016]](/images/54000/54199.jpg "Hest Bank")
![With the Settle & Carlisle line closed for landslip repairs at Armathwaite a number of freights have been diverted to run over the WCML. On a sunny February morning the cutting at Hest Bank is still in shade as DBS 66111 powers south with Castle Cement empty tanks from Mossend to Clitheroe. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 15/02/2016]](/images/54000/54233.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Having missed out several planned loop stops, Colas 60095 brings the Carlisle to Chirk logs through Hest Bank almost ninety minutes early on a wet 19th February 2016. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/02/2016]](/images/54000/54285.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Trans-Pennine 350401 and 350403 form a Manchester Airport to Glasgow service seen passing under the new Heysham Link Road bridge at Morecambe South Junction on 1st April 2016. This was the day that First Group took sole responsibility for the TPE franchise having previously been in partnership with Keolis. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/04/2016]](/images/54000/54739.jpg "Morecambe South Junction")
![1st April 2016 was the first day of operations for the new Arriva Northern franchise. A debranded 156444 leaves the Morecambe line at Morecambe South Junction to run towards Lancaster. The current pattern of services will not alter until the May 2016 timetable change.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/04/2016]](/images/54000/54746.jpg "Morecambe South Junction")
![The <I>Bay Gateway</I> bridge over the WCML is an impressive structure but was only carrying construction traffic when 37402 propelled the Carlisle to Preston service under it on 1st April 2016. A short distance to the east another bridge carries the new road over the Lancaster Canal. What appears to be a single yellow signal is actually a flashing aspect indicating the next signal is also on yellow but the train is routed into the speed restricted Platform 4 line at Lancaster.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/04/2016]](/images/54000/54841.jpg "Morecambe South Junction")
![With the lifting of the West Coast Railways suspension a full programme of trains has recommenced, including a <I>Statesman Rail</I> tour from Euston to Fort William on 2nd April 2016. The return leg on 4th April is seen leaving the Up Loop at Carnforth behind 57316. Out of sight behind the Pullman stock is stablemate 57601. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 04/04/2016]](/images/54000/54683.jpg "Carnforth")
![Although I had seen Royal Scot many years ago during its sojourn at Bressingham, I had completely forgotten about the amount of brasswork which it carries in addition to its nameplates. The two plates commemorate its trip to North America in 1933, prior to rebuilding, although they fail to mention that the true identity of the loco was No. 6152 The King's Dragoon Guardsman! Photographed at Carlisle on 16th April 2016 while working The Scot Commemorative tour from Crewe.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 16/04/2016]](/images/55000/55183.jpg "Carlisle")
![45690 <I>Leander</I> crosses Carlisle Bridge at Lancaster running from Carnforth to Preston to take over <I>The Salopian</I>, an excursion from Dumfries to Shrewsbury on 22nd April 2016. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/04/2016]](/images/54000/54920.jpg "Lancaster")
![After some speedy repairs earlier in the week 5MT 44871 was cleared to work the Great Britain IX (Day 3) leg from Bristol to Grange-over-Sands (via Hereford). In between heavy downpours the Black 5 is seen taking the Down Fast line through Lancaster on 28th April 2016.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/04/2016]](/images/54000/54928.jpg "Lancaster")
![Considerable weekend engineering work has taken place during Spring 2016 repairing the long low embankment to the north of Carnforth station. An 11 coach Pendolino heads north over the pristine structure on the evening of 12th May 2016. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 12/05/2016]](/images/55000/55210.jpg "Carnforth")
![37401 <I>Mary Queen of Scots</I>, approaches the level crossing at Bolton-le-Sands with the 1004hrs Preston to Barrow service. During 2016 37401, 402, 409, 423 and 425 have all seen use on Cumbrian Coast services, the first two running in <I>Large Logo</I> livery. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 12/05/2016]](/images/55000/55339.jpg "Bolton-le-Sands")
![Recent clearing of vegetation has opened up a vantage point on Tarn Lane at Cinderbarrow where DB 66167 is seen heading south with the evening Hardendale to Margam containers on 23rd May 2016. The train has just crossed the Cumbria and Lancashire border. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/05/2016]](/images/55000/55279.jpg "Cinderbarrow")
![45699 <I>Galatea</I> setting out on an engine and coach movement from Carnforth to Southall on 8th August 2016, prior to working <I>The Dorset Coast Express</I> from London to Weymouth. The LMS Jubilee appears to have been fourth choice for a special previously listed for haulage by 34067, 35018 and 70013. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/08/2016]](/images/56000/56186.jpg "Hest Bank")
![46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> rolls a <I>Cumbrian Mountain Express</I> excursion through Hest Bank on 20th August 2016. The loco had taken over the train at Preston and was running via Shap to Carlisle and returning via the Cumbrian Coast. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/08/2016]](/images/56000/56283.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Two nearly new DRS Class 68s, 68020 <I>Reliance</I> and 68018 <I>Vigilant,</I> take the <I>Tesco Express</I> north through Hest Bank on a gloomy 20th August 2016. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/08/2016]](/images/56000/56314.jpg "Hest Bank")
![<I>Would suit railway enthusiast</I>. A top floor flat of the warehouse overlooking Carlisle Bridge at Lancaster appears to have a For Sale sign on the balcony. A Freightliner Class 70 passes with the delayed Coatbridge Daventry containers on 1st September 2016, one of over 200 trains that this bridge carries every day. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/09/2016]](/images/56000/56423.jpg "Lancaster")
![Class 40 No. 345 hauled an unadvertised excursion for the CFPS from Carnforth to Bury via Buxton on 300916. The gleaming blue machine is seen here passing Hest Bank on the first leg of the trip. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/09/2016]](/images/56000/56705.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Pathfinder Tours 2016 excursion from Paignton to Fort William ran to time on the outbound leg. It is seen here passing Hest Bank behind DRS 37612 and 37601 on Friday 30th September. Unfortunately the return trip the following Monday was heavily delayed due to problems with a civil engineering train [See image 56686] and only eventually arrived in Exeter around 0600 on Tuesday - some seven hours late. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/09/2016]](/images/56000/56819.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Flying Scotsman seen causing a stir at Carlisle on 'The Waverley'.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson /10/2016]](/images/57000/57371.jpg "Carlisle")
![37403 <I>Isle of Mull</I> returned to main line use with the Cumbrian Coast fleet of Class 37/4s in July 2016. It is owned by the SRPS and was based at Boness for several years [See image 25834] but is now on long term loan to DRS. In full West Highland livery the former D6607 is seen propelling the 0515 Carlisle to Preston at Lancaster on 4th October 2016.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 04/10/2016]](/images/56000/56741.jpg "Lancaster")
![A short rake of Caledonian Sleeper stock was used to take Paralympian athletes from Manchester to Euston on 18th October 2016. The ECS was then worked back to Polmadie and is seen passing Hest Bank behind GBRf electric 92010.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 18/10/2016]](/images/56000/56909.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Pendolino 390128 speeds northwards at Tebay on 221016. The train is just passing the poignant memorial to the four railway workers killed here on 15th February 2004 when a poorly maintained trolley ran away on Shap bank during an engineering possession. (Memorial map reference NY613028.)<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/10/2016]](/images/56000/56934.jpg "Tebay")
![Two TPE 350 EMUs run across a refurbished embankment (one of many between Lancaster and Carlisle) in the Lune Gorge at Dillicar on 22nd October 2016. The M6 Motorway, on two levels at this location, can be seen behind the line.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/10/2016]](/images/57000/57021.jpg "Dillicar")
![On Saturdays a Class 37 hauled Cumbrian Coast train lays over at Lancaster from 1608 to 1732 before returning to Barrow. 37401 <I>Mary Queen of Scots</I> is seen idling in Platform 5 as the light fades on 5th November 2016<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/11/2016]](/images/57000/57108.jpg "Lancaster")
![Another day - another <I>Northern Belle Christmas Diner</I>. 68016 <I>Fearless</I> heads an excursion from Crewe and Liverpool under the newly opened <I>Bay Gateway</I> bridge near Morecambe South Junction [See image 50297]. The train had just visited the Hellifield to Carnforth line and earlier in the day it had also traversed the rarely used Halton Curve near Runcorn.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/12/2016]](/images/57000/57593.jpg "Morecambe South Junction")
![TPE 350406 runs past some flooded fields at Morecambe South Junction with a Manchester Airport to Edinburgh service on 13th January 2017. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/01/2017]](/images/57000/57809.jpg "Morecambe South Junction")
![BRCW Type 3 33030 pokes a faded nose out of the West Coast depot at Carnforth on 19th January 2017. The former DRS loco has been stored at Carnforth for many years but for most of the time was in the open yard [See image 36467]. Is something planned for it now?<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/01/2017]](/images/57000/57903.jpg "Carnforth")
![Jubilee 45690 Leander is seen a few miles north of Carnforth working the first Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express tour of 2017 to Carlisle.<br><br>[John McIntyre 21/01/2017]](/images/57000/57908.jpg "Carnforth")
![Working hard on the northbound climb up Shap, 45690 Leander is seen just north of Scout Green with 11 coaches and a Class 37 diesel in tow whilst working the Winter CME tour to Carlisle on 21 January 2017. Looking at the scene I wonder what gives away the fact that it wasn't 50 years earlier?<br><br>[John McIntyre 21/01/2017]](/images/57000/57937.jpg "Scout Green")
![TPE 350404 heads away from Lancaster with a Manchester Airport to Edinburgh service on 24th January 2017. The train is seen looking south towards Lancaster from the new vantage point of the <I>Bay Gateway</I> bridge that opened in October 2016 [See image 54841]. [Ref query 617] <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/01/2017]](/images/57000/57920.jpg "Morecambe South Junction")
![A Carlisle to Crewe infrastructure train, mainly comprising loaded ballast wagons, rumbles south through Hest Bank behind DRS 66434 on 10th February 2017.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 10/02/2017]](/images/58000/58198.jpg "Hest Bank")
![46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> takes the Down Fast through Lancaster on 11th March 2017 with a special from Manchester to Edinburgh. The Scot was standing in for the booked Duchess 46233. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/03/2017]](/images/58000/58405.jpg "Lancaster")
![On 20th March the sound from 37419 would certainly draw the attention of any onlookers as it crosses Carlisle Bridge accelerating away from Lancaster with a train for Barrow-in-Furness.<br><br>[Malcolm Chattwood 20/03/2017]](/images/58000/58604.jpg "Lancaster")
![The 'Winter Cumbrian Coast Express' heads northwards at Southwaite on 25 March 2017 with Royal Scot class no.46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> having worked the leg from Carnforth.<br><br>[John McIntyre 25/03/2017]](/images/58000/58811.jpg "Southwaite")
![Flying Scotsman today at Carlisle. FS had arrived via Settle, but buses are still in operation over the northern section.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 31/03/2017]](/images/58000/58657.jpg "Carlisle")
![After two days of loaded test trains new DRS electro diesel 88002 <I>Prometheus</I> returned to light engine running on 5th April 2017. The loco, with pantograph rising for the Hest Bank crossing, is seen returning to Carlisle after a trip to Crewe. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/04/2017]](/images/58000/58742.jpg "Hest Bank")
![DRS 37218 hauls two flasks and 37609 from Heysham to Sellafield on 5th April 2017. The train is on the chord from Bare Lane to Hest Bank, running alongside the electrified main lines towards the junction at the level crossing. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/04/2017]](/images/58000/58972.jpg "Hest Bank")
![DRS 37609 brings up the rear of a two flask train from Heysham to Sellafield on 5th April 2017. The train is running along the chord from Bare Lane approaching Hest Bank with classmate 37218 leading. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 05/04/2017]](/images/59000/59461.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Although coal traffic is greatly reduced this train of empty four-wheel box wagons worked from Belmont Yard to Killoch on 6th April 2017. DBS 66088 is seen approaching Lancaster station with the train that had been routed via Copy Pit and the WCML. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 06/04/2017]](/images/58000/58757.jpg "Lancaster")
![88002 <I>Prometheus</I> and 68025 <I>Superb</I> turn a few heads as they cross the River Lune on Carlisle Bridge with the northbound test train on 6th April 2017. The similarities between the two locos is very noticeable in this side view. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 06/04/2017]](/images/58000/58909.jpg "Lancaster")
![After a lengthy absence (reportedly due to work at the paper mill) the log trains from Carlisle to Chirk have started running regularly again. Colas 60095 powers the long train south through Hest Bank on 6th April 2017<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 06/04/2017]](/images/58000/58937.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Two DRS veterans, 37069 and 37602, head a single flask from Crewe to Sellafield. The pair are seen passing through Lancaster Castle station on the Down Fast line on a bright morning, 6th April 2017.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 06/04/2017]](/images/58000/58985.jpg "Lancaster")
![Another one fresh out of the box. Two 88s worked in multiple on 11th April on a return test run from Carlisle to Crewe. Seen here at Hest Bank on the return trip 88002 <I>Prometheus</I> leads 88001 <I>Revolution</I>.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/04/2017]](/images/59000/59009.jpg "Hest Bank")
![DCR liveried 56303 heads light engine from Derby to Carlisle on 11th April 2017. It later returned south with two ex-DRS locomotives heading for Leicester [See image 59026]. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/04/2017]](/images/59000/59530.jpg "Hest Bank")
![<I>Portrait of a veteran.</I> DRS 37059 leads three flasks from Heysham along the Bare Lane to Hest Bank chord on 12th April 2017. The former D6759 went new to Thornaby in October 1962 and so is approaching its 55th birthday, still in front line service. Sister 37069 is out of sight bringing up the rear.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 12/04/2017]](/images/59000/59037.jpg "Hest Bank")
![150223 trundles along the single track chord between Bare Lane and Hest Bank with the 1605 Lancaster to Leeds (via Morecambe) service on 12th April 2017. This is one of only two passenger trains to traverse this link on weekdays. The catenary masts of the WCML can just be seen behind the signal. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 12/04/2017]](/images/59000/59116.jpg "Hest Bank")
![With new DRS locos being delivered in 2017 the days of the Class 37 fleet are perhaps numbered. Almost looking like it is posing for its picture, EE Type 3 37069 brings up the rear of a Heysham to Sellafield flask train using the single track Bare Lane to Hest Bank chord on 12th April. Lead loco was classmate 37059.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 12/04/2017]](/images/59000/59634.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Freightliner 66512 and 66562 double head a container train southwards at Morecambe South Junction on 18th April 2017.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 18/04/2017]](/images/59000/59524.jpg "Morecambe South Junction")
![46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> ran E+C from Crewe to Carlisle on 3rd May 2017 prior to taking up the Glasgow to Oxenholme leg of the GB X tour the following day and is seen here approaching Hest Bank.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 03/05/2017]](/images/59000/59404.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Here is Ole Kroczek of DB inspecting an unusual notice - supporting the re-opening of Gilsland station - at Carlisle Station.<br>
<br>
<a href=http://www.gilsland-station.org.uk/ target=external>Gilsland Station</a><br><br>[John Yellowlees 08/05/2017]](/images/59000/59305.jpg "Carlisle")
![A Carnforth mural. Rather good!<br><br>[John Yellowlees 08/05/2017]](/images/59000/59420.jpg "Carnforth")
![Light engine testing of the new DRS electro diesels continues between Carlisle and Crewe. On 24th May 2017 88001 <I>Revolution</I> was in use and is seen here returning north approaching Morecambe South Junction. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/05/2017]](/images/59000/59448.jpg "Morecambe South Junction")
![Modern mega power on the flasks. 68017 <I>Hornet</I> leads a veritable convoy of DRS Class 68s on the Crewe Sellafield working on 22nd June 2017. Next in the train is brand new and unnamed 68030 followed by 68005 <I>Defiant</I> and 68023 <I>Achilles</I>. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/06/2017]](/images/59000/59726.jpg "Hest Bank")
![MN 4-6-2 35018 <I>British India Line</I> on the home straight passing Hest Bank almost three hours early towards the end of its first loaded test run from Carnforth on 6th July 2017. There is still a little cosmetic work to complete but what a transformation of this former Barry loco to be back on the main line.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 06/07/2017]](/images/59000/59924.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Having just left the chord from Bare Lane, 68029 and 68022 accelerate past the closed box at Hest Bank and return to Sellafield with a single wagon load from Heysham Power Station. 20th July 2017. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/07/2017]](/images/60000/60194.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Large-logo 37402 propels 2C32, the 05.15 Carlisle to Preston service, past the level crossing at Bolton-le-Sands on 11th August 2017. There have been a number of failures on the Cumbrian Coast loco hauled services but this train was <I>Right Time</I> as it passed heading towards Lancaster. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/08/2017]](/images/60000/60630.jpg "Bolton-le-Sands")
![A very clean DRS 57309 <I>Pride of Crewe</I> runs light engine through Lancaster on 14th August 2017 making its way from Crewe to Carlisle Kingmoor. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 14/08/2017]](/images/60000/60527.jpg "Lancaster")
![45690 <I>Leander</I> makes a spirited ascent of the Ripley bank out of Lancaster on 22nd August 2017. This was one of only three <I>Fellsmans</I> to run in 2017 but seven are scheduled for 2018, running approximately fortnightly from the end of May to the end of August. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/08/2017]](/images/62000/62484.jpg "Lancaster")
![DRS 37425 powers alongside Morecambe Bay at Hest Bank with 2C47, Preston to Barrow, on 25th August 2017.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/08/2017]](/images/60000/60726.jpg "Hest Bank")
![A special working through Hest Bank. DRS 57304 <I>Pride of Cheshire</I> hauls electro-diesel 88005 <I>Minerva</I> and a single MkII coach from Crewe to Kingmoor on 20th September 2017. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/09/2017]](/images/60000/60839.jpg "Hest Bank")
![37403 <I>Isle of Mull</I> accelerates away from the Lancaster stop and is seen approaching Morecambe South Junction with 2C47, the Preston to Barrow-in-Furness service on 21st September 2017. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 21/09/2017]](/images/61000/61046.jpg "Morecambe South Junction")
![37403 <I>Isle of Mull</I> propelling 2C32 Carlisle to Preston at Morecambe South Junction on 28th September 2017. This new vantage point near the lay-by on the <I>Bay Gateway</I> link road looks likely to be short lived judging by the tree planting on the embankment. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/09/2017]](/images/61000/61199.jpg "Morecambe South Junction")
![Bridge Road and Brunton Road in Lancaster, formerly crossed by an additional line leading to the old L&PJ station at Lancaster Greaves. The L&NWR built a two road engine shed and turntable in the fork between the two lines which was open from 1875 to 1934. In the trees on the left are traces of floor tiles and other remnants from the old depot. The grass bank near the surviving bridge is now a good vantage point for watching trains departing Lancaster [See image 35365]. 17th October 2017. [Ref query 30 October 2017]<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/10/2017]](/images/61000/61464.jpg "Lancaster")
![Colas certainly have a diverse fleet, illustrated by 56105, 60095 and 70804 taking the Up Fast line through Lancaster on 20th October 2017. This was a light engine(s) working from Carlisle to Crewe. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/10/2017]](/images/61000/61452.jpg "Lancaster")
![37401 <I>Mary Queen of Scots</I> idles in Platform 5 at Lancaster on 28th October 2017 before returning to Barrow in Furness with the 1731 hrs (SO) train. A Euston bound Pendolino calls at Platform 4. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/10/2017]](/images/62000/62329.jpg "Lancaster")
![37402 slows as it drops down the bank towards Lancaster Castle station with 2C47, 1004hrs Preston to Barrow-in-Furness, on a gloomy 31st October 2017. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 31/10/2017]](/images/61000/61798.jpg "Lancaster")
![90028 and a DBS stablemate begin the climb of the Ripley bank south of Lancaster station with the double headed Mossend to Daventry container train on 31st October 2017. Note the double banner repeater signal on the down side, giving an early indication of the signal that controls the Down fast and platform lines outside Castle station. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 31/10/2017]](/images/62000/62124.jpg "Lancaster")
![Crew change for an RHTT train at Carnforth on 3rd November 2017. This particular diagram involves return trips over Shap, the S&C and Clitheroe line, Barrow in Furness, Windermere and the Bentham line and the train is away from Kingmoor for a scheduled 20 hours. The inner cabs of the two Class 37s were covered in grime, in contrast to the outer ends. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 03/11/2017]](/images/61000/61709.jpg "Carnforth")
![Old and brand new in the Down Loops at Carnforth on 3rd November 2017. 37422 was on RHTT duties but had arrived from Settle Junction almost two hours late and was waiting for the Leeds bound passenger service to clear the section before returning there. 88007 <I>Electra</I> was on a light engine test run from Carlisle and waiting for a path to return north. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 03/11/2017]](/images/61000/61749.jpg "Carnforth")
![Freightliner 66551 rolls a Daventry to Mossend intermodal service through the Down Fast line at Lancaster station on 13th November 2017. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/11/2017]](/images/62000/62389.jpg "Lancaster")
![Station announcement at Lancaster as 37402 rolled in with 2C32 Carlisle to Preston on 13th November 2017. 'This is a VERY old train. The doors are not power assisted. You will have to use the door handles provided'. He might have added 'but it will sound tremendous and there's a good view from every seat!'<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 14/11/2017]](/images/61000/61818.jpg "Lancaster")
![37401 brings the 2C47 Preston to Barrow service to a stand on the Lancaster Canal bridge as it waits for Platform 3 to clear in Lancaster station. 24th November 2017 <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/11/2017]](/images/61000/61947.jpg "Lancaster")
![88003 <I>Genesis</I> approaches Hest Bank level crossing with its pantograph well extended on 4th December 2017. The <I>Tesco Express</I> has seen a variety of diesel and electric traction over recent years [See image 28531]. It is still the only regular booked working for the Class 88 electro-diesels at this time. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 04/12/2017]](/images/62000/62073.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Snow on the Lake District mountains, and a low winter sun just illuminates the flanks of 37402 as it propels the 2C32 Carlisle to Preston service through Hest Bank on 8th December 2017. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/12/2017]](/images/62000/62134.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Looking north along the Clapham to Low Gill trackbed just south of the site of Barbon station in December 2017. The station closed to passengers in 1954 but freight and diverted trains continued to pass along the line until 1967. All the other stations on the line survive in private use but Barbon was demolished with the site turned over for housing development. This section of trackbed is now in use as farmland - note the now redundant stile. (Ref query 28 December 2017)<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 27/12/2017]](/images/62000/62319.jpg "Barbon")
![Network Rail have applied to Lancaster City Council for permission to demolish Hest Bank signal box. It was opened on 22nd December 1958, replacing an LNWR box on the opposite side of the crossing, but will not see its 60th birthday. An Edinburgh to Euston Pendolino passes on a frosty 11th January 2018. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/01/2018]](/images/62000/62525.jpg "Hest Bank")
![The rather splendid 37424 <I>Avro Vulcan XH558</I> propels the 2C32 Carlisle to Preston service through Hest Bank on 11th January 2018. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/01/2018]](/images/62000/62580.jpg "Hest Bank")
![DRS 68029 stabled in the Down Loops at Carnforth having just arrived from Carlisle via Whitehaven and Barrow on a driver training run. The loco was top and tailing three coaches with class mate 68003 <I>Astute</I> and the train returned to Carlisle by the same route after a crew rest break. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 12/01/2018]](/images/62000/62601.jpg "Carnforth")
![Another Class 68 <I>Cumbrian Coast</I> crew training run from Carlisle arrives in Carnforth on 19th January 2018. 68029 has just two coaches and 68003 <I>Astute</I> in tow and is signalled into the loops for a lunchtime break before the return run. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/01/2018]](/images/62000/62559.jpg "Carnforth")
![Although several crew training runs took place in January 2018 the plan to use Class 68s on Cumbrian Coast services is reported to have fizzled out, for a variety of reasons, and the Class 37s continue on both diagrams. On 19th January 68003 <I>Astute</I> was on the rear of a two coach train that had come round the coast line and was just going into the sidings at Carnforth for a lunch stopover prior to returning. 68029 had been the lead locomotive on the outward leg. DB 66018 can also be seen stabled on the right. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/01/2018]](/images/62000/62931.jpg "Carnforth")
![37402 propels the mid afternoon service to Barrow in Furness away from Carlisle on a sunny 26 January 2018. Pairs of Class 68s (in top and tail mode) were expected to be taking over some if not all the Class 37 diagrams from 29 January 2018 but that did not happen.<br><br>[John McIntyre 26/01/2018]](/images/62000/62697.jpg "Carlisle")
![Freightliner 90016 and 90041 double head an intermodal service southwards at Morecambe South Junction on 2nd February 2018. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 02/02/2018]](/images/62000/62772.jpg "Morecambe South Junction")
![One of the two Cumbrian Coast Class 37 diagrams was supposed to move to Class 68 haulage before the end of January 2018 but two 37s continued in use during the first week of February. 37424 <I>Avro Vulcan XH558</I> propels the 2C32 Carlisle to Preston service at Morecambe South Junction on a sunny 2nd February 2018. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 02/02/2018]](/images/62000/62926.jpg "Morecambe South Junction")
![There is very little coal traffic through Lancaster now but 66556 put in an appearance early on the morning of 12th February 2018 working empties from Crewe Basford Hall to Greenburn Opencast Mine in Ayrshire. There was more snow further south but only a <I>dusting</I> at Lancaster. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 12/02/2018]](/images/62000/62949.jpg "Lancaster")
![<I>Super Sprinter</I> 158s have always been rare birds around Lancaster but that is about to change with the May 2018 timetable as they are being introduced on services between Barrow and Manchester Airport. Accordingly, two ECS runs have been scheduled each week day to train Barrow crews and Scotrail liveried 158870 is seen heading towards Lancaster on 13th February with the second trip of the day. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/02/2018]](/images/62000/62851.jpg "Hest Bank")
![Freightliner 90041 & 90045 take the Up Fast line through Lancaster with a Coatbridge to Daventry intermodal service on the morning of 18th February 2018. The buffers on the right sit on the formation of the chord to Lancaster Green Ayre, closed in 1966. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/02/2018]](/images/62000/62980.jpg "Lancaster")
![A Virgin Voyager takes the Up Fast line through Lancaster with a Glasgow to Euston (via Birmingham) service on 20th February 2018.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/02/2018]](/images/63000/63058.jpg "Lancaster")
![Training of Barrow drivers on the Class 158s has continued in February ahead of their introduction on Furness line trains from May 2018. Former Scotrail 158870 passes Morecambe South Junction on a return working from Barrow Carriage Sidings to Preston on 22nd February. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/02/2018]](/images/62000/62986.jpg "Morecambe South Junction")
![The new Class 88 electro-diesels have been used occasionally on the Heysham and Hartlepool flask trains recently but on 6th March 2018 it was 68023 and 68002 in charge. This is the return Heysham to Sellafield working approaching Bolton-le-Sands level crossing, with a storm damaged tree encroaching on the scene. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 06/03/2018]](/images/63000/63177.jpg "Bolton-le-Sands")
![Virgin 390127 just squeezes onto Platform 3 at Lancaster in time to reveal DB 90040 southbound on the Up Fast line heading for Daventry on 13th March 2018. EWS liveried 90028 was working in multiple on this intermodal service but out of sight behind the Pendolino. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/03/2018]](/images/63000/63626.jpg "Lancaster")
![Jubilee 45699 'Galatea' working hard on the Carnforth to Carlisle leg of 'The Cathedrals Express' from Euston on 17 March 2018. The special is seen here passing through Oxenholme.<br><br>[John McIntyre 17/03/2018]](/images/63000/63241.jpg "Oxenholme")
![The Windermere branch shuttle waits to depart from Oxenholme on 17 March 2018.<br><br>[John McIntyre 17/03/2018]](/images/63000/63624.jpg "Oxenholme")
![One of the yard shunters at 10A is this very well presented Class 08, which displays the number '555' but is believed to be the former 08418. On 20th March 2018 the 0-6-0 and crew were busy moving rolling stock around the yard.<br><br>[John McIntyre 20/03/2018]](/images/63000/63411.jpg "Carnforth")
![<I>The Salopian Express</I> on 21st March 2018 was originally set to be Jubilee hauled from Crewe but 35018 <I>British India Line</I> was turned out and took the train from Carnforth. This was the first revenue earning run for the Merchant Navy Pacific since restoration and it is seen here passing Hest Bank wreathed in steam. I believe the livery is still BR Green! <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 21/03/2018]](/images/63000/63285.jpg "Hest Bank")
