A Class 195 passing Burneside with a Windermere service
Overview
Status
Operational
Owner
Network Rail
Locale
Cumbria North West England
Termini
Windermere
Oxenholme Lake District
Connecting lines
West Coast Main Line
Stations
5
Service
System
National Rail
Operator(s)
Northern Trains
Rolling stock
Class 195
History
Opened
1847
Technical
Line length
10 mi 15 ch (16.40 km)
Number of tracks
1
Track gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Loading gauge
W6
Operating speed
60 mph (97 km/h) maximum
Route map
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Windermere Branch Line
Legend
Windermere
Staveley
Burneside
Kendal
West Coast Main Line
to Carlisle
Oxenholme Lake District
West Coast Main Line
to Preston
The Windermere branch line, also called the Lakes line, is a branch railway line which runs from Oxenholme on the West Coast Main Line to Windermere via Kendal in the county of Cumbria, North West England.
The line has a loading gauge of W6.[1]
^"Network Specification 2015 - London North Western" (PDF). www.networkrail.co.uk. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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