Service
Following the recent December 2008 timetable change, there have been modest improvements to the weekday service from the station. There is an hourly service northwards to Carlisle for much of the day (with one or two longer gaps in the late afternoon) and also southwards to Barrow-in-Furness from mid-morning until early evening (ten trains per day in total). Four of the latter continue via the Furness Line to Lancaster. One train from the Carlisle direction runs through from Newcastle, but there is currently no corresponding service in the opposite direction.
On Sundays, three trains a day run to and from Carlisle but there is no service to Barrow.
A Sunday service over the whole length of the Coastal route is set to operate on a one-off basis on Sunday 27 September 2009 (first time a revenue earning passenger service has operated south of Whitehaven since May 1976) to celebrate the ACoRP Community Rail Festival which is being held in Carlisle over that weekend. If the Sunday service is a success, Northern hope to gain funding to operate a Barrow-Carlisle Sunday service during the Summer months from 2010.
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