Trains to Sellafield - Station Details and further Information on Sellafield Train Services
Sellafield train station is a train station serving the nuclear facility of Sellafield in Cumbria, England. It is a stop on the scenic Cumbrian Coast Line. Some through trains to the Furness Line stop here. It is operated by Northern Rail who provide all passenger train services.
There are ten trains a day from the station each weekday to Whitehaven and Carlisle northbound and eleven to Barrow southbound since the 2008 timetable change (an improvement of two each way compared to the previous 2007-8 service level). Certain southbound trains continue on to Lancaster. There are no evening or Sunday services.
The station (which dates from 1850) is a busy freight location, as much of the nuclear waste for Sellafield's Thorp nuclear fuel reprocessing plant is carried by train here from the docks in Barrow-in-Furness or from rail-connected nuclear power stations elsewhere in the UK.
The station marks the end of the single line section from Whitehaven, which is operated using the electric key token system. From here the line southwards towards Ravenglass and Barrow is double track (apart from the short section between Park South Junction (south of Askam) and Barrow, which is also single). |
