Bootle railway station
Bootle Bootle (Cumbria) Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway | |
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Pre-grouping | Furness Railway |
Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway British Rail (London Midland Region) |
Key dates | |
8 July 1850 | Opened |
Passengers | |
2018/19 | 13,386 |
2019/20 | 17,226 |
2020/21 | 4,616 |
2021/22 | 12,154 |
2022/23 | 11,966 |
Location | |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Bootle is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. The station, situated 24 miles (39 km) north-west of Barrow-in-Furness, serves the village of Bootle in Cumbria. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
History
The
Facilities
The station had a coal depot, a goods yard with a shed and 5 ton crane, the yard was able to accommodate live stock, horse and cattle vans.[5][6] The station was host to a LMS caravan in 1936.[7]
It has retained its main buildings, being the stationmaster's house waiting rooms and restrooms but these are now two private residences and the station is unstaffed. The station clock is original and still works.
The buildings are built from red granite and sandstone. Originally the design was used on many of the stations on the Cumbrian Coast Line but today only three exist. This one, Drigg and Ravenglass.
There were no ticket facilities prior to 2019, but a ticket vending machine has now been installed by Northern to allow passenger to buy before boarding.
Shelters are present on both platforms, with the wooden one on the northbound side being the more substantial of the two.
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The signal box c. 1874 is a Furness Railway Type 1 design and retains a London Midland Region lever frame of 15 levers installed in 1977. and was listed in November 2013 under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Train running information can be obtained by telephone, digital display screens or from timetable posters.[8]
Services
Northern Trains Route 6 |
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Cumbrian Coast, Furness
and Windermere Lines |
Bootle, Braystones, Drigg, Flimby, Green Road,
Kirkby-in-Furness, Nethertown, Parton and Silecroft are request stops. |
Monday to Saturdays there is generally an hourly (with some longer gaps in the early morning and afternoon) request service southbound to Barrow and northbound towards Whitehaven and Carlisle. Some services continue beyond Barrow via the Furness line to Lancaster.[9] The timetable now operates later into the evening than before since the summer 2018 timetable came into effect.
A Sunday service (broadly hourly each way from late morning until 19:00) now operates - this was introduced at the May 2018 timetable change.
Explosion on 22 March 1945
At about 22:17 on 22 March 1945 a wagon containing
Stubbs was subsequently awarded the George Medal and the Order of Industrial Heroism.[10][11][12]
See also
References
- ^ Rush, Robert W. (1973). The Furness Railway 1843-1923. The Oakwood Library of Railway History. Lingfield: Oakwood Press. pp. 33–34. OL35.
- ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
- ^ "Opening of the Railway to Bootle". Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser. 9 July 1850. p. 3.
- ^ "Local Intelligence". Carlisle Patriot. 2 November 1850. p. 2.
- ^ "Bootle station on OS 25inch map Cumberland LXXXV.11 (Bootle)". National Library of Scotland. 1863. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
- ISBN 0-7153-5120-6.
- ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
- ^ Bootle (Cumbria) station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 2 December 2016
- ^ Table 100 National Rail timetable, December 2019
- ^ Braniff, P.V. (June 2000). "I Owe My life to Harold". Life Saving Awards Research Society Journal (39): 36–38.
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- ^ "Herbert Norman Stubbs Fireman Ammunition Train Explosion 22nd March 1945". Cumbria Railways. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
External links
- Media related to Bootle railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Train times and station information for Bootle railway station from National Rail
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Ravenglass | Northern Trains Cumbrian Coast line |
Silecroft | ||
Historical railways | ||||
Eskmeals | Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway
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Silecroft |