Trains to Garsdale - Station Details and further Information on Garsdale Train Services
Garsdale train station serves the immediate hamlet of Garsdale Head, Cumbria, England, together with the valley of Garsdale and the adjoining towns of Sedbergh and Hawes. It is operated by Northern Rail who provide all passenger train services.
Adjoining the station are sixteen Railway Cottages built for its employees by the Midland Railway around 1876, the year the Settle-Carlisle Line opened. A further six cottages were added near to the Moorcock Inn soon afterwards. The station once boasted the highest water troughs in the world (just along the line at Ling Gill), and a waiting room where Anglican church services were held. Also Garsdale, in steam days, had a turntable with a wall of sleepers around it to prevent locomotives being spun by strong winds as happened in 1900, this being the inspiration for the story Tenders and Turntables in the book Troublesome Engines in The Railway Series by Rev W. Awdry. The site of the Hawes Junction rail crash of 1910 is near to the station which was originally known as Hawes Junction, as it was the junction of a branch line to Hawes. This branch line was closed in 1959, but the main line is in regular use for both passenger and goods trains. It is the long term aim of the Wensleydale Railway to extend their rails along the former route from Redmire to connect with services here, allowing through journeys to Northallerton on the East Coast Main Line.
Garsdale has the same service level as neighbouring Dent i.e five trains to both Leeds and Carlisle on weekdays, with an additional train each way on Saturdays and three each way on Sundays. The station is also served by DalesRail trains between Blackpool North/Preston and Carlisle on Sundays during the summer (two trains each way). |
