- Windermere railway station
Infobox UK station
name = Windermere
caption = End of the line at Windermere Railway Station.
manager =First TransPennine Express
locale = Windermere
borough =South Lakeland
code = WDM
lowusage0405 = 251,973
lowusage0506 = 246,432
platforms = 1
start = 1847Windermere railway station is the
railway station that serves Windermere inCumbria . It is located just south of the A591, about fifteen minutes' walk or a short bus ride from the lake. The station is clearly marked with aNational Rail logo, and is behind theBooths supermarket (which was itself once the railway station) and in front of the Lakeland store. It is the terminus of the formerKendal and Windermere Railway single-trackWindermere Branch Line , with a single platform (much longer than the trains usually seen here today) serving one terminal track.The station was at one time bigger than this, with four platforms and an overall roof [Vaughn, p.115] but all bar one was taken out of use when the branch was reduced to a one-train operated single line in
1973 as an economy measure.First TransPennine Express run Class 185 dieselmultiple units along the line, which runs through Staveley,Burneside , andKendal , and then interchanges withVirgin Trains West Coast Main Line services at Oxenholme Lake District; some trains then run partly along the main line toManchester and terminate atManchester Airport . The station is also a hub for Stagecoach bus services connecting Windermere with Coniston,Grasmere , Keswick, and other destinations inCumbria . Both Stagecoach and the local council also run regular buses through the town to Bowness Pier; Stagecoach's are open-topdouble-decker buses running along principal streets, while the local council runs minibuses around the outskirts of town.The selection of the town of Birthwaite as the location of the station serving the lake was what led to it taking the name Windermere, even though it is not on the water (nowadays it has essentially grown together with
Bowness-on-Windermere , which touches the lake).The railway cottages, built for railway executives in 1849, were designed by the famous architect
Augustus Pugin . One of the fireplaces is a copy of one of his in thePalace of Westminster . A typical example isOld Codgers Cottage , currently used as a holiday home. The owners have researched its history to find that it was inhabited by the head Drayman for the railway company on the 1861 census.Notes
References
* Vaughn, J.A.M (1980), "Modern Branch Line Album", Ian Allen Publishing Ltd (Shepperton, Surrey). ISBN 0 7110 1030 7
ee also
*Windermere and
Bowness-on-Windermere (the towns)
*Windermere (the lake)
*National Rail
**First TransPennine Express
**Windermere Branch Line
**Kendal and Windermere Railway
*Stagecoach Group External links
* [http://www.tpexpress.co.uk/ TransPennine Express]
* [http://www.windermerecottage.co.uk]
* [http://www.stagecoachbus.com/northwest/ Stagecoach North West]
* [http://217.23.229.206/jpclient.exe?b=Windermere+(rail+station)&SubmitQuery Buses from the station]
* [http://217.23.229.206/jpclient.exe?e=Windermere+(rail+station)&SubmitQuery Buses to the station]
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