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More than £9.5m is being invested to extend platforms at five railway stations in Cumbria to make way for longer trains.
(Permalink) Dalton Kents Bank Oxenholme Platform extension Staveley Ulverston


Ulverston: A Manchester Airport service, on time at 12 noon, with 185129 leaves Ulverston station with its restored building and canopies. The cars on the right are in a dealership that occupies the old Furness ...
Mark Bartlett 17/01/2009

Train station ticket offices across south Cumbria are at risk of closure, according to a rail union.

Rail union RMT revealed imminent plans by the rail industry for mass closures of ticket offices across the network, with over 1,000 ticket offices at impending risk of closure including at Oxenholme, Windermere, Appleby, Grange, Barrow and Ulverston.

But a spokesman from the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train operators, said no decisions had been made over the future of the countrys ticket offices.
(Permalink) Appleby Barrow Grange Oxenholme RMT Ticket offices Ulverston Windermere

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