Arnside railway station - +44 (0) 845 600 1671

Arnside railway station is a railway station that serves the village of Arnside in Cumbria, England. It is located on the Furness Line from Barrow-in-Furness to Lancaster. It is managed & operated by Northern. A short distance west of the station, the railway crosses the Kent estuary on an impressive 50-span viaduct that is some 475m long. This historic structure underwent major repairs & refurbishment, including the complete replacement of the rail deck in 2011. Similar work was carried out on the nearby Leven Estuary viaduct in the spring of 2006.HistoryOpened in 1858 by the Ulverston and Lancaster Railway (a company backed by, and later taken over by the Furness Railway) (FR), the station became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Rail.

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