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...

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

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...

independent connection to the route. Establishing a joint station at Carlisle with the three other railway companies terminating there, seemed obviously appropriate...

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...

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

site of what became St Helens Central railway station. In July 1889, the St. Helens and Wigan Junction Railway Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. xci) extended...

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...

Complete Atlas of Railway station Names (1st ed.). Hersham: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 0-7110-2798-6. Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great...

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...

Thornton–Cleveleys (originally simply named Cleveleys) was a railway station in England which served the Lancashire village of Thornton and town of Cleveleys...

Cumwhinton railway station was a railway station serving the village of Cumwhinton in Cumbria, England. The station was located on the Settle and Carlisle...

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

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...

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...

took his first railway photograph in 1925 at Mortehoe and Woolacombe railway station, and continued until 1934, when, while studying at the University of...

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...

Ais Gill on the Settle and Carlisle Line and the return route being via Shap on the West Coast Main Line. Other trips included visits to places A4 pacifics...

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...

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...

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...

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

Windermere Branch Line near Kendal railway station then meets the A685 (to Kirkby Stephen), passes over the River Mint as Shap Road and is crossed by the Dales...

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...

Plumpton railway station in Hesket parish in what is now Cumbria but was then Cumberland in the north west of England, was situated on the Lancaster and...

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

London Road railway station was the first to open in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. It was built as a terminus of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway and opened...