Place Dent Station code DNT DfT category F2 Number of platforms 2 Original company Midland Railway | Grid reference SD764874 Managed by Northern 2011/12 10,852 | |
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Address Sedbergh LA10 5RF, United Kingdom Similar Garsdale railway station, Dousland railway station, Hellifield railway station, Brimscombe railway station, Ribblehead railway station | ||
Dent railway station november 1994
Dent railway station is a Grade II listed station which serves the villages of Cowgill and Dent in Cumbria, England. It is operated by Northern who provide all passenger train services; it is situated 51 miles (82 km) northwest of Leeds.
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Dent railway station
Location
Dent village is approximately 4.8 miles (8 km) by road to the west, and 400 ft (120 m) below the height of the station, with Cowgill being the nearest small village, located around half a mile away.
At an altitude of 1,150 ft (350 m) and situated between Blea Moor Tunnel and Rise Hill Tunnel immediately to its north, Dent is the highest operational railway station on the National Rail network in England. Dent Station buildings are now privately owned and are available to rent as holiday cottage accommodation. During the 1970s the station was rented out to Barden school in Burnley as an outdoor pursuits centre, providing accommodation for up to 15 pupils whilst they carried out various courses ranging from pot holing, caving, to geology and map reading.
There are stone-built passenger waiting rooms provided on both the northbound and southbound platforms. Access to the southbound platform is, somewhat unusually, by an unguarded barrow crossing at the south end of the station for foot passengers to use with care (a 30 mph permanent speed restriction for non-stop trains through the station is enforced for this reason). Disabled passengers should not use the southbound platform without assistance. Like most stations on the line, there are no ticket machines available and so travellers must buy on the train. Train running information can be obtained by telephones on the platforms or from information posters.
Old wooden snow fences are still in place on the eastern side of the station (see image).
Services
Dent railway station is on the historic Settle-Carlisle Line, with services to Leeds and Carlisle. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders and opened in 1877 and originally closed in May 1970 but was reopened by British Rail in 1986 following a campaign to maintain regular stopping services along the line.
On weekdays there are five trains in each direction, with six each way on Saturdays and three each way on Sundays. In addition, DalesRail services operate on summer Sundays from Blackpool North and Preston to Carlisle, with one journey in each direction. Northbound trains are terminating at either Appleby or Armathwaite until the end of March 2017, as the Armathwaite to Carlisle section is closed whilst the damaged embankment at Eden Brows is repaired.