Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway :: Shared Description

The Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway runs from Haverthwaite at the southern end of the line via Newby Bridge to Lakeside at the southern end of Windermere. It is a former branch line of the Furness Railway and was opened on 1 June 1869.

The main revenue earner for the line then was freight, this being coal for the Windermere steamers, iron ore for the Backbarrow Iron Works, and sulphur and saltpetre for the Black Beck and Low Wood gunpowder works. The traffic in the opposite direction was mainly pig iron, gunpowder, pit props, ultramarine "blue" powder, wooden bobbins (from the Finsthwaite area) and livestock.

British Railways closed the line to passengers on 6 September 1965, and to all traffic two years later. In the late 1960s efforts by enthusiasts to reinstate the line were frustrated by both an unsympathetic British Railways and the local planning authority who wanted to turn the route into a footpath.

The line was eventually re-opened on 2nd May 1973, but no longer connects to the main-line railway system. At Lakeside, however it does still connect to the ferries on Windermere to Bowness and Ambleside.

Lakeside & Haverthwaite railway website: LinkExternal link
by Gerald England
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SD3484 : Cumbria, Haverthwaite by Richard Sutcliffe
SD3787 : Signalbox at Lakeside by Stephen Craven
SD3787 : Lakeside Station by Richard Sutcliffe
SD3787 : Running round at Lakeside by Stephen Craven
SD3786 : Train on the river bank by DS Pugh
SD3484 : Haverthwaite station - detail by Stephen Craven
SD3484 : Haverthwaite station - footbridge by Stephen Craven
SD3787 : Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway by David Dixon
SD3484 : Haverthwaite station - coal stockpile by Stephen Craven
SD3484 : Victor emerges from Bare Syke tunnel by Stephen Craven
SD3787 : Steam train at Lakeside by Gerald England
SD3584 : Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway, The Line East of Haverthwaite Station by David Dixon
SD3787 : Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway, Steam Locomotive at Lakeside Station by David Dixon
SD3787 : Lakeside Pier by David Dixon
SD3786 : Train beside the River Leven by DS Pugh
SD3584 : Shunter at Haverthwaite station  by Stephen Craven
SD3787 : Lakeside Station by Richard Sutcliffe
SD3484 : The engine shed at Haverthwaite by Stephen Craven
SD3484 : Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway, Haverthwaite Station by David Dixon
SD3484 : Haverthwaite Station by David Dixon
SD3787 : Lakeside Station by Gerald England
SD3787 : Lakeside Station by Gerald England
SD3484 : Train in Haverthwaite station by Stephen Craven
SD3787 : Steam Train Departs from Lakeside Station by David Dixon
SD3484 : Haverthwaite station signal box by Stephen Craven

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Created: Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Updated: Thu, 5 Jun 2014

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