Lazonby and Kirkoswald railway station

Lazonby and Kirkoswald is a railway station which serves the villages of Lazonby and Kirkoswald in Cumbria, England. The station is owned by Network Rail and is operated by Northern who provide all passenger train services. The station was opened by the Midland Railway on 1 May 1876. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.[1]

Lazonby and Kirkoswald
Location	Lazonby, Eden England
Coordinates	54°45′03″N 2°42′13″W
Grid reference	NY548397
Owned by	Network Rail
Managed by	Northern Trains
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	LZB
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway British Rail (London Midland Region)
Key dates
1 May 1876	Opened as Lazonby
22 July 1895	Renamed Lazonby and Kirkoswald
4 May 1970	Closed
14 July 1986	Reopened
Passengers
2015/16	12,510
2016/17	4,150[lower-alpha 1]
2017/18	11,218
2018/19	10,774
2019/20	13,452
Location
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Originally named Lazonby, it was renamed Lazonby and Kirkoswald on 22 July 1895.[2] It is situated in the centre of Lazonby and, like many other stations on the line, was closed on 4 May 1970 when local passenger services between Skipton and Carlisle were withdrawn. The platforms and buildings survived however, and following several years of use by Dalesrail excursions it was reopened on a full-time basis in July 1986.[3] The old goods shed and yard is now used by a local bakery.[4]

The southbound platform has a stone shelter and access ramps from the nearby road (so it is fully DDA-compliant). On the northbound platform, there is a bus-style waiting shelter. There is no ticket machine (though one is planned for the station by the end of 2019 as part of TOC Northern's wider programme of station improvements) or booking office, so tickets have to be bought in advance or on the train. Train running information is available via information boards and posters and a telephone helpline (PIS displays are also due to be installed by the end of 2019).

Services

Route 7: Bentham Line and Settle & Carlisle Line
Carlisle Armathwaite Lazonby and Kirkoswald Langwathby Appleby Kirkby Stephen Garsdale Dent Ribblehead Horton-in-Ribblesdale Settle Heysham Port Morecambe Bare Lane Lancaster Carnforth Wennington Bentham Clapham Giggleswick Long Preston Hellifield Gargrave Skipton Keighley Bingley Shipley Leeds

The station receives a similar level of service to neighbouring Langwathby i.e. eight trains northbound and seven southbound on weekdays and Saturdays (all of which now run to/from Leeds) and six each way on Sundays (including one DalesRail services to Preston and Blackpool).[5]

Services were disrupted from 28 January 2016 by a landslip north of the station at Eden Brows, which destabilised and damaged the embankment on the eastern side of the railway where it passes through the Eden Gorge. An emergency timetable was in operation, with all trains replaced by buses between Armathwaite (or in certain cases Appleby) and Carlisle until repairs were completed in March 2017.[6] Prior to completion of the reconstruction work only the northbound platform was open, as single-line working was in force from Kirkby Thore signal box (north of Appleby) to the temporary terminus at Armathwaite. The southbound line and platform reopened to traffic as scheduled on 31 March 2017 and a full timetable is now operating once again.

Notes

1. The significant decrease in passenger numbers was due to a landslip at Eden Brows, which saw the line closed between Appleby (later Armathwaite) and Carlisle from February 2016 to March 2017.

References

1. "Notes by the Way". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 1 November 1884. Retrieved 12 July 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
2. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 139. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
3. Settle - Carlisle Line Key Events Archived 11 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2008-08-27
4. "The Settle - Carlisle Railway". Settle-Carlisle Railway Development Company. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
5. Table 42 National Rail timetable, May 2019
6. "Landslip-hit Settle-to-Carlisle line section shut until 2017". BBC News. 7 July 2016.

External links

• Media related to Lazonby and Kirkoswald railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Train times and station information for Lazonby and Kirkoswald railway station from National Rail