| Penrith | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Penrith |
| Local authority | Eden |
| Operations | |
| Station code | PNR |
| Managed by | Virgin Trains |
| Platforms in use | 3 |
| Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail |
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| Annual rail passenger usage | |
| 2004/05 * | 0.241 million |
| 2005/06 * | 0.267 million |
| 2006/07 * | 0.308 million |
| 2007/08 * | 0.341 million |
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | |
| * Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Penrith from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. | |
- This article is about the station in Penrith, Cumbria, UK. For the station in Sydney, Australia, see Penrith railway station, Sydney.
Penrith railway station (also known as Penrith North Lakes and Penrith The North Lakes) is located on the West Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom. It serves the town of Penrith, Cumbria and is less than one mile from its centre. National Express coaches leave from the station's car park and there are bus links to Keswick, Workington. Appleby-in-Westmorland and Ullswater from here too.
Although the station is now relatively quiet at one time this was the terminus for the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway and the North Eastern Railway's Eden Valley branch which joined with the Stainmore line at Kirkby Stephen providing connections to the East Coast Main Line at Darlington. There was also in the mid-nineteenth century a plan to connect Penrith by rail to the lead mines at Caldbeck and eventually joining up with the Cumbrian Coast Line near Wigton.
The station currently lacks a cafe. A 1863 Ordnance Survey plan[1] shows refreshment facilities in the large room seen to the right on entering the building, but this is now used for storage.
The station was renamed from Penrith for Ullswater to Penrith on 6 May 1974.[2]
Up until August 2006 the station was probably unique in that although being a manned main line station it did not have electronic departure boards or TV screens depicting departures/arrivals but only a handwritten departure board in the waiting room/ticket office. It was also the last station in the UK where mail was collected by a moving train.
The station is operated by Virgin Trains. Virgin renamed the station Penrith North Lakes soon after taking over the running of it.
References
- ^ Ordnance Plan of the town of Penrith (10.56 feet to one mile), 1863, British Library shelfmark O.S.T.(11)
- ^ Slater, J.N., ed (July 1974). "Notes and News: Stations renamed by LMR". Railway Magazine (London: IPC Transport Press Ltd) 120 (879): 363. ISSN 0033-8923.
External links
- Train times and station information for Penrith railway station from National Rail
- Buses from the station
- Buses to the station
Services
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| First TransPennine Express | ||||
| Virgin Trains |
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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| Terminus | Eden Valley Railway | Clifton (Moor) | ||
| Blencow | Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway | Terminus | ||
| Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
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| Clifton & Lowther | London and North Western Railway Lancaster and Carlisle Railway |
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