Oxenholme Lake District railway station

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Not to be confused with Oxenhope railway station.
Oxenholme Lake District National Rail
Oxenholme Lake District railway station in spring 2013 (1).JPG
Location
Place Oxenholme
Local authority District of South Lakeland
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Grid reference SD531901
Operations
Station code OXN
Managed by Virgin Trains
Number of platforms 3
DfT category D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05   0.260 million
2005/06 Increase 0.267 million
2006/07 Increase 0.310 million
2007/08 Increase 0.333 million
2008/09 Increase 0.350 million
2009/10 Increase 0.380 million
2010/11 Increase 0.408 million
2011/12 Increase 0.436 million
2012/13 Decrease 0.421 million
2013/14 Increase 0.436 million
2014/15 Increase 0.489 million
- Interchange   0.245 million
History
Original company Lancaster and Carlisle Railway[1]
Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
July 1847 Opened as Kendal Junction[1]
c. 1860 Renamed Oxenholme[1]
1988 Renamed Oxenholme The Lake District[1]
National Rail – UK railway stations

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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Oxenholme Lake District from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Oxenholme Lake District railway station (often shortened to Oxenholme) is a railway station in Oxenholme, near Kendal, in Cumbria, England. The station is situated on the West Coast Main Line and is also the start of the Windermere Branch Line to Windermere. Platforms 1 and 2 are on the electrified main line, whilst platform 3 for the Windermere branch is not electrified at present and cannot be used as a terminus for main line trains that are powered by the overhead lines. The station serves as a main line connection point for Kendal, and is managed by Virgin Trains.[2]

Oxenholme has the distinction of being the only village station currently served by express trains on the West Coast Main Line, with all the other stations on this route serving either towns or cities.

Services

Most Virgin Trains services from London to Glasgow or Edinburgh call here to provide connections with the Windermere branch. There is normally a train at least every two hours to London and every hour to Edinburgh or Glasgow. First TransPennine Express services between Manchester Airport and Windermere/Glasgow/Edinburgh also serve the station, although most Windermere services now start/terminate here rather than running through to Lancaster, Preston and Manchester Airport.

Notable incidents

On 10 February 1965 fugitive John Middleton shot two policemen while hiding in the waiting room. Carlisle policemen George Russell and Alex Archibald were shot with Russell dying in hospital a few hours later.[3]

On 27 May 2006 the station was the scene of a murder when a 19-year-old man was stabbed aboard a Glasgow-Paignton train as it was coming into the station. A 22-year-old man was subsequently jailed for 21 years for the murder in November 2006.[4]

The Grayrigg rail crash happened on 23 February 2007 when a Virgin Pendolino train derailed after it had just left Oxenholme Lake District railway station. The crash left 1 person dead, and 22 others injured.[5]

In fiction

Oxenholme station appears in the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books by Arthur Ransome as Strickland Junction.[6] In Pigeon Post Roger releases a homing pigeon there.

See also

References

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  6. ↑ Christina Hardyment Arthur Ransome and Capt. Flint's Trunk, Jonathan Cape 1984

External links

Preceding station   National Rail National Rail   Following station
Lancaster   Virgin Trains
West Coast Main Line		   Penrith North Lakes or
Carlisle
Lancaster   First TransPennine Express
TransPennine North West		  
Terminus   First TransPennine Express
Windermere Branch Line		   Kendal
Lancaster    


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