Settle to Carlisle Railway

Garsdale Station

Garsdale is one of the wildest stations on the Settle-Carlisle.

This station is one of four in the Yorkshire Dales National Park and is also just inside the County boundary of Cumbria.

This is the only station now in use that does not follow the Derby Gothic building pattern of two gables facing the platform and another facing away.

The only station on the line incorporating a fully operational signal box this was once the junction for the former Wensleydale railway line to Hawes.Some of the trackbed still exists and the remains of the cattle dock can still be seen.This line was connected to the S&C in 1878. The engine shed is now gone but the 16 Midland Cottages, now in private hands, remain.

Another feature of Garsdale were the highest water troughs in the world which express trains used to gather water whilst passing through Garsdale at speed.

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• Carlisle
• Armathwaite
• Lazonby
• Langwathby
• Appleby
• Kirkby Stephen
• Garsdale Head
• Dent
• Ribblehead & Museum
• Horton in Ribblesdale
• Settle
• Viaducts & Miscellaneous

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