Windermere railway station
Railway station in Windermere, Cumbria, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Windermere railway station serves Windermere in Cumbria, England. It is just south of the A591, about 25 min walk or a short bus ride from the lake. The station is located behind a branch of the Booths supermarket chain, which occupies the site of the original station building, in front of the Lakeland store. It is the terminus of the former Kendal and Windermere Railway[1] single-track Windermere Branch Line, with a single platform (much longer than the trains usually seen there today) serving one terminal track.
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General information | |
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Location | Windermere, South Lakeland England |
Grid reference | SD413986 |
Managed by | Northern Trains |
Platforms | 1 |
Other information | |
Station code | WDM |
Classification | DfT category E |
History | |
Opened | 1847 |
Original company | Kendal and Windermere Railway |
Pre-grouping | London and North Western Railway |
Post-grouping | |
Key dates | |
20 April 1847 | Opened |
1973 | Reduced to single track |
Passengers | |
2018/19 | 0.374 million |
2019/20 | 0.406 million |
2020/21 | 0.115 million |
2021/22 | 0.310 million |
2022/23 | 0.316 million |
Location | |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
The station is owned by Network Rail and is operated by Northern Trains who provide all passenger train services.
The Terrace, a row of cottages, built for railway executives in 1849, is said to have been designed by the architect Augustus Pugin. One of the fireplaces is a copy of one of his in the Palace of Westminster.[2]
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).