Tebay

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Tebay (1852-1968)

Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway.

Description

This was a sizeable junction station. The line remains open but the station is long gone, closing in 1968. Little remains of the station other than an open area.

For the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway this was an intermediary station opening in 1852 serving a small town. With the opening of the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway in 1861 it became a junction station.

It grew to have two locomotive sheds, a trainshed over the branch platform and exchange sidings.

The branch closed completely in 1962 and the station in 1968.

Tags

Station junction

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map




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Tourist/other
Mosedale Hall Crossing Signal Box
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Hay Fell Signal Box
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Chronology Dates

  /  /1952South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway
Tebay to Kirkby Stephen closed to passengers. Diverted (and tour) passenger trains still use the route. Passenger trains continue to use the Eden Valley Railway from Penrith to Kirkby Stephen and continue to Barnard Castle.

News items

21/02/2009Tebay victims remembered [The Visitor]
01/03/2007Appeal of rail deaths pair begins [BBC News]
01/03/2007Tebay rail death appeal bid fails [BBC News]
17/03/2006Second man guilty in Tebay case [BBC News]
16/03/2006Man guilty over Tebay rail deaths [BBC News]
24/08/2004Warning over runaway rail wagons [BBC News]
15/02/2004Accident at Tebay

Books


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

An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways