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Windermere branch line information


Windermere branch line
A Class 195 passing Burneside with a Windermere service
Overview
StatusOperational
OwnerNetwork Rail
LocaleCumbria
North West England
Termini
  • Windermere
  • Oxenholme Lake District
Connecting linesWest Coast Main Line
Stations5
Service
SystemNational Rail
Operator(s)Northern Trains
Rolling stockClass 195
History
Opened1847
Technical
Line length10 mi 15 ch (16.40 km)
Number of tracks1
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
Loading gaugeW6
Operating speed60 mph (97 km/h) maximum
Route map

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Staveley
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Burneside
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Kendal
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West Coast Main Line
to Carlisle
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Oxenholme Lake District
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West Coast Main Line
to Preston
Platform 3 at Oxenholme, with view north of the line to Windermere

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]

  1. ^ "Network Specification 2015 - London North Western" (PDF). www.networkrail.co.uk. Retrieved 24 April 2015.

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