Shap railway station information

Shap railway station served the village of Shap, Westmorland (now in Cumbria), England for over 120 years. The station was situated on the West Coast Main...

the village. Shap railway station was closed in 1968, though there have been calls for its re-opening. Penrith is the closest railway station and is situated...

the highest point of the West Coast Main Line railway in England, near to the Cumbria village of Shap in North West England, crossing the hills of the...

of the station now remains, although the down goods loop and several sidings are still in place for use by engineering trains for Shap. Railway Passenger...

1846; closed 1 July 1968; Shap Summit; workmen's platform for Shap Granite Company, probably from the mid-1880s to autumn 1956; Shap; opened 17 December 1846;...

The Shap Stone Avenue (an unofficial name) is a megalithic complex near Shap in Cumbria, England, comprising stone circles, a two-mile avenue (actually...

Carlisle railway station, or Carlisle Citadel, is a Grade II* listed railway station serving the cathedral city of Carlisle, Cumbria, England. It is on...

Summit in 1957 Railway cutting near Beattock Summit The summit was the location of a private halt from 1900 to around 1926. 1966 Shap Summit Butt (1995)...

Clitheroe railway station serves the town of Clitheroe in Lancashire, England. The station is the northern terminus of the Ribble Valley line / Clitheroe...

Railway (British Section) (now known as the East Rail line), the station was relocated to the current location on 7 April 1983, while the old station...

where the old Tai Po Market railway station was built in 1913. Admission to the museum is free. The Kowloon–Canton Railway (British Section) opened in...

two Scotby railway stations situated in the village of Scotby, two miles outside of Carlisle, England. Both have closed. This railway station (54°53′21″N...

intermediate station of the East Rail line, then known as the Kowloon–Canton Railway, upon the completion of the estate. The Tai Wo station premises are...

the direct route over Shap being preferred. Consequently, the line along the Cumbrian coast is the result of piecemeal railway building (largely to serve...

Falahill is the tenth highest standard gauge railway summit in Britain, just 35 feet (11 m) lower than Shap summit. The Fushiebridge loop is on a 1 in 70...

Keswick railway station was on the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway between Penrith and Cockermouth in Cumberland (now in Cumbria), England. It...

Island Road railway station (also known as Barrow Shipyard and locally simply as Shipyard station) was a railway station at the centre of Barrow Island...

of the village, south of the notoriously exposed Shap Summit. Like its predecessor, the main railway line, it uses the upper reaches of the River Lune...

West Coast Main Line taking the direct route favoured by Joseph Locke over Shap between Lancaster and Carlisle, Stephenson was in favour of a longer sea-level...

passed, the Midland Railway came to an agreement with the London & North Western Railway, to run services on the LNWR line via Shap. The company applied...

for a number of railway routes because of the geography of the area. At first each railway company had its own passenger and goods station, but in 1847 passenger...

Shap Wells prison camp Scratby, where the pilots landed Heinz Schnabel and Harry Wappler were two Second World War German prisoners of war who escaped...

followed by the Trent Valley; the mountains of Cumbria, with a summit at Shap; and Beattock Summit in South Lanarkshire. This legacy means the WCML has...

Lindal railway station served Lindal-in-Furness in the Furness area of Lancashire, England (now part of Cumbria). Lindal station was situated west of...

Cockermouth railway station was situated on the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway and served the town of Cockermouth, Cumbria, England. The station opened...

are several hundred yards/metres apart, are on a section of the M6 between Shap and Tebay, which allows a local road to run between them, and on the M62...

Shap Sze Heung, sometimes transliterated as Shap Sz Heung (Chinese: 十四鄉; lit. 'Fourteen Townships'), is an area in Hong Kong located in the northern part...