Settle-Carlisle Line - Route

Route

  • Settle Junction - the start of the line. Site of the junction with the Leeds to Morecambe Line and a short-lived (1876–77) passenger station.
  • Settle
    • Taitlands Tunnel (now called Stainforth Tunnel)
  • Horton in Ribblesdale
  • Ribblehead- here is the Ribblehead Viaduct (originally named Batty Moss Viaduct) 440 yd (396 m), with 24 piers
    • Blea Moor Tunnel 2629 yd (2366 m) long
    • here is Dent Head viaduct
  • Dent (4.5 miles outside the village of Dent)
    • Rise Hill Tunnel
    • here were the highest water troughs in the United Kingdom. Steam locomotives were able to pick up water from these troughs whilst still moving.
    • Dent is the highest railway station in England.
  • Garsdale - originally named Hawes Junction & Garsdale.
    • At Hawes station, on the branch to the east of the main line, there was an end-on-junction with the North Eastern Railway (NER) line across the Pennines to Northallerton
    • On the next stretch, there were three tunnels (Moorcock Tunnel, Shotlock Hill Tunnel and Birkett Tunnel).
    • On this stretch also was the summit of the line at Ais Gill, 1169 ft (350 m) ASL
  • Kirkby Stephen - There were two stations here, one (Kirkby Stephen West) for the Midland line and Kirkby Stephen East for the NER (the latter's line from Darlington to Tebay). The two stations are about half a mile apart. The Midland station also served the village of Ravenstonedale
  • Crosby Garrett (closed 1952)
  • Ormside (closed 1952)
  • Appleby - as with Kirkby Stephen, there were separate stations for the Midland (Appleby West) and NE lines (Appleby East), with a siding connection. The NE line was the branch known as the Eden Valley Railway between Kirkby Stephen and Eden Valley Junction on the West Coast Line near Clifton
  • Long Marton (closed 1970)
  • New Biggin (closed 1970)
  • Culgaith (closed 1970)
    • there are three tunnels between these stations
  • Langwathby
  • Little Salkeld (closed 1970)
    • here is Lazonby Tunnel
  • Lazonby and Kirkoswald
    • there are three more tunnels between these two stations
  • Armathwaite
  • Cotehill (closed 1952)
  • Cumwhinton (closed 1956)
  • Scotby (closed 1942 - not the same station as the one of the same name on the adjoining Tyne Valley Line)
  • Petterill Bridge Junction - junction with the Newcastle - Carlisle line and the end of Midland Railway metals.
  • Carlisle: the station - full title Carlisle Citadel was owned jointly by the LNWR and the Caledonian Railway: the Midland (among others) was a "tenant Company".

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