Lancaster railway station

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Today's Lancaster Station, located at what is now West Coast Main Line and is the city of Lancaster in Lancashire in the North West of England railway station was founded as Lancaster Castle station.

Location and construction

The station is located west of downtown Lancaster. He has five platform tracks and two drive-through tracks. A sixth edge of the platform is available, but the track expanded. The individual platforms are connected by a pedestrian bridge with each other and with the reception building to the west of the track.

History

The Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway built the first railway station of Lancaster, in Greaves district south of the city center in 1840. The Lancaster Station ( Greaves ) but was replaced on September 21, 1846 by the new station Lancaster Castle, as this route to be the cheapest option out to be a transition to the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. The station Lancaster ( Greaves ) then served as a goods station. The name of the station Lancaster Castle station was chosen not only because he practically exactly located below the castle of Lancaster, but it was necessary to distinguish it also from the Lancaster Green Ayre railway station. The building of the present station at Lancaster was designed in 1902 in reference to the nearby castle. In 1969 it was renamed the Lancaster.

The station Lancaster Green Ayre was operated by the Morecambe Harbour and Railway on its route from Morecambe. The station was opened on 12 June 1848 as Lancaster station, but it was later than the name Lancaster Green Ayre from June 1850 - occasionally misspelled as Green Area. The station was located north of the city center right on the river Lune. The station presented together with its branch in the direction of Carnforth on January 2, 1966 due to the Beeching Axe the operation of a passenger. Only freight was still operated on a part through the station until March 16, 1976. The station was demolished along with the remaining distance. Today is a supermarket on the site of the station.

Connection

The station is currently served by trains of the National Rail.

Virgin Trains, which are also operators of the station, the remote connections from London Euston station lead to Carlisle or Glasgow Central and Birmingham New Street to Glasgow Central. The TransPennine Express train from Manchester Airport via Lancaster to Barrow-in- Furness. Northern Rail provides regional services to the nearby Barrow-in- Furness, Morecambe, Heysham, Skipton and Leeds.