Grange-over-Sands

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Grange (1857-1916)
Grange-over-Sands (1916-1923)
Grange (1923-1930)
Grange-over-Sands (1930-)

Station code: GOS National Rail
Where: North West England, England
Opened on the Ulverston and Lancaster Railway.
Open on the Cumbrian Coast Railway.

Description

This fine station is open.

There is a second hand bookshop. Over Sands Bookshop

07/05/2018




Chronology Dates

26/06/1846Great North of Scotland Railway
Act receives Royal assent.The route was to be Aberdeen to Inverness with Grange to Banff and Portsoy, Orton to Garmouth, Alves to Burghead [1st] branches.
10/10/1856Great North of Scotland Railway
Huntly to Keith opened. Stations at: Huntly, Rothiemay, Grange and Keith.
07/03/1960Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway
Grange to Grange North Junction closed to all traffic.

News items

17/09/2021Grange-over-Sands station named best small station in the UK [News and Star]

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The Lake Counties v. 14 (Regional Railway History)

The Furness Railway: a History

The Industrial Archaeology of South Ulverston

Ulverston (Images of England)

Ulverston in Old Picture Postcards