156479 Whitehaven Station. 01.06.2022.

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156479 Whitehaven Station. 01.06.2022.
156479 Whitehaven Station. 01.06.2022.

156479 is about to depart from platform 2 on 2C52; the 12.10, Northern Trains service from Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness.
Of interest is Whitehaven Bransty signal box in the upper righthand corner.
The first station at Whitehaven was opened on 19 March 1847 by the Whitehaven Junction Railway (WJR), as the terminus of their line from Maryport to the north. This station lay to the south of the present station, with the main entrance on Bransty Row.
A separate station to the south was developed in 1849 by the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway (W&FJR), which was later absorbed into the Furness Railway in 1865. In order to join the two stations a tunnel, 1,333 yards (1,219 m) long, was built beneath the town centre, which was completed in July 1852.
The Furness Railway was absorbed by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) in 1866 and the current station at Whitehaven Bransty was built in December 1874.
The original buildings were demolished and replaced by a modern single-storey ticket hall in the mid-1980's. The former goods yard site beyond and behind platform one to the left of this photograph, is now occupied by a TESCO supermarket.
The station formerly had four operational platforms, but today only two remain in use; the former platforms three and four to the right in this photgraph, have lost their tracks when the layout was simplified and the buildings replaced.

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Taken on: June 1, 2022
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