Robert James Tinsley from 1959 (also station master at Little Salkeld)[4]
Facilities
The Carlisle-bound (down) station building has been converted into the Brief Encounter Tea Rooms and an antique shop. An enclosed bus-shelter style waiting room has been provided at the Carlisle end of the platform (a stone shelter is also present on the Leeds-bound platform). Step-free access is available to both platforms via ramps from the road below.[5] The station is unstaffed. Tickets can be bought at the station from a vending machine installed in 2019. Train running information is available via timetable posters, digital information screens (also installed in 2019) or telephone.
Accidents and incidents
On 29 November 1912, goods guard R.Mallinson’s hand was crushed during shunting operations in the goods yard. He attempted to couple two waggons with his shunting pole when he slipped on some snow.[6]
On 6 March 1930, a passenger train, hauled by Ex-LNWR Claughton4-6-0 No. 5971, departed from Culgaith station against signals and was in collision with a ballast train, hauled by Midland Railway 3835 Class0-6-0 No. 4009. Two people were killed and four were seriously injured.[7]
Eight northbound and seven southbound services call at Langwathby on weekdays and five trains in each direction on Sundays. The station was also served by a single DalesRail train from Preston & Blackpool North to Carlisle (and return) on Sundays during the summer months (but this is currently suspended until spring 2024).[8] One additional call each way was instituted at the summer 2018 timetable change as part of DfT-mandated Northern franchise improvements.
Services through to Carlisle were suspended from 9 February 2016 (until March 2017) by a landslip at Eden Brow (near Armathwaite), which destabilised the embankment on the eastern side of the railway where it passes through the Eden Gorge. An emergency timetable was in operation, with trains only operating as far as Armathwaite (with a bus link to Carlisle) northbound and Appleby southbound until repairs were completed in the spring of 2017.[9] Following the successful completion of the repair work, the regular timetable resumed on 31 March 2017.
References
^"Notes by the Way". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 1 November 1884. Retrieved 12 July 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"1871-1879 Coaching". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 736. 1871. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
^ abcd"1881-1898 Coaching". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 39. 1881. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
^Railway accidents. Summary of accidents and casualties resorted to the Board of Trade by the several railway companies in the United Kingdom, during the three months ending 31st December, 1912, Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1913
^Hall, Stanley (1990). The Railway Detectives. London: Ian Allan. p. 95. ISBN0-7110-1929-0.
^ abStations in Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Stockton-on-Tees are considered part of North East England, while stations in the unitary areas of York and North Yorkshire are considered part of Yorkshire and the Humber.
^Stations in North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire are considered part of Yorkshire and the Humber, while all other stations are considered part of the East Midlands.
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