[Source: Alan Young]

Threlkeld Station Gallery 4: c1970 - April 2009

Looking east towards Threlkeld station c1970. The old cattle dock is seen on the right.
Photo from John Mann collection

Looking west at Threlkeld station in February 1972, the month before passenger services were withdrawn between Penrith and Keswick. A Class 108 DMU in Rail (or Monastral) Blue is calling at the north face of the island platform. Bars are placed over the opening windows in the nearest coach, probably fitted to prevent passengers from leaning out on the Cumbrian Coast route with its limited clearances, on which the train would also operate. The sidings and former down track have been removed south of the platform. Beyond the nearest coach the building which housed the acetylene gas equipment to light the station’s lamps is seen at track level, with the stationmaster’s and railway staff houses above the cutting.
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Looking west at Threlkeld station in February 1972, the month before passenger services between Penrith and Keswick were withdrawn. The photographer is standing on the trackbed of the former down line and ahead, left, is the area formerly occupied by three sidings, one of which served the cattle dock (far left). The building at track level, set into the cutting, is the ‘gas house’ in which acetylene gas was produced to light the station’s lamps. The station building and signal box remain on the platform.
Photo by John Mann

Threlkeld station looking west in February 1972. Trains in both directions call at this (up) face of the island platform, the former down line having been removed.
Photo by John Mann

One of the BR(LM) nameboards at Threlkeld is seen in February 1972. It is of vitreous enamel in the region’s maroon colour and carried on concrete stanchions, as was normal LM Region practice. BR ‘Corporate Identity’ black and white nameboards were never installed, although some information signs in this style were provided in the late 1960s.
Photo by John Mann

A poster board outside Threlkeld station still carrying the BR(LM) name and two ‘British Railways’ totems in February 1972.
Photo by John Mann

Threlkeld station looking east on 12 April 1977, five years after closure. The former up track, which from December 1967 was used by both up and down trains has been removed, but the ballast is still in place. The down track was removed some years before the line closed. The derelict buildings are
still in place.
Photo by Alan Young

Threlkeld station looking west on 12 April 1977. The buildings are extant, but derelict, and the BR(LM) nameboard stanchions and frame are still in place, far right.
Photo by Alan Young

Looking east along the up side at Threlkeld station in September 1989. Undergrowth has now taken over the whole site.
Photo by Nick Catford

The east end of the down side of the platform at Threlkeld station in September 1989. The stationmaster's house overlooks the station.
Photo by Nick Catford

The overgrown west end of the island platform (up side) at Threlkeld on 22 April 2009. The buildings were demolished in 1985/86
Photo by Roy Lambeth

[Source: Alan Young]

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