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    The Morecambe branch line is a railway line in Lancashire, England, running from Lancaster to Morecambe and Heysham, where trains connect with ferries...
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    Morecambe is a railway station on the Morecambe Branch Line, which runs between Lancaster and Heysham Port. The station, situated 4 miles (6 km) west...
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    The Leeds–Morecambe line, also known as the Bentham line, is a railway line running between Leeds, Skipton, Lancaster and Morecambe in northern England...
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    Heysham Port is a railway station on the Morecambe branch line, which runs between Lancaster and Heysham Port. The station, situated 7+3⁄4 miles (12 km)...
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  • Railway in 1904, to replace the same company's harbour in Morecambe. A branch line from the NWR line had already opened for contractors on 12 November 1898...
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    applied on its own account to build the branch to Morecambe, receiving permission in 1859. At this point the line was leased by the London and North Western...
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    Bare Lane railway station (category Morecambe)
    Bare Lane is a railway station on the Morecambe Branch Line, which runs between Lancaster and Heysham Port. The station, situated 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) west...
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    Carnforth railway station (category Stations on the West Coast Main Line)
    operate between Lancaster and Leeds, via Skipton. Most run to and from Morecambe. Rolling stock used: Class 150 Sprinter and Class 158 Express Sprinter...
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    the railway opened, with the only road crossing to reach the area over Morecambe Bay. The Furness Railway was first proposed in November 1843, linking...
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    Lancaster railway station (category Stations on the West Coast Main Line)
    District Morecambe branch line to Morecambe and Heysham Port; nuclear flask trains serving Heysham power station are the other main users of this line Leeds–Morecambe...
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    electrified the recently opened branch line from Heysham Harbour to Morecambe Promenade on 13 April 1908 and the main line to Lancaster soon afterwards....
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  • Thumbnail for Morecambe Euston Road railway station
    Morecambe Euston Road was the terminus station of the London and North Western Railway's branch line to Morecambe, in Lancashire, England. It closed in...
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  • number. The numbers of individual carriages were: MR electric units Morecambe branch line 100 Years of Electric Traction by Colin J Marsden, published by...
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  • stretch of the West Coast Main Line, including Shap Summit. Set in the late 1980s, it also features the Morecambe branch line from Lancaster. The British...
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    Carnforth (category Morecambe Bay)
    Whitehaven Morecambe Branch Line: A single daily parliamentary train service travels to Morecambe, via the north curve at Hest Bank. The West Coast Main Line passes...
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    Heysham (category Morecambe Bay)
    with trains from Heysham Port railway station to Lancaster via the Morecambe Branch Line. Heysham oil refinery was located between Heysham and Middleton...
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  • Thumbnail for Windermere branch line
    The Windermere branch line, also called the Lakes line, is a branch railway line which runs from Oxenholme on the West Coast Main Line to Windermere via...
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  • Lancaster Blackpool North Blackburn Burnley Central Colne Darwen Clitheroe Morecambe Heysham Port Ormskirk Chorley Rawtenstall Carnforth Leyland Blackpool South...
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    increase in services to the line, but in 2022, Transport for Greater Manchester published two surveys in relation to the line. As of May 2023, there is...
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  • single-phase (1φ) except where marked three-phase (3φ). Conductors: overhead line or conductor rail, usually a third rail to one side of the running rails...
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    connecting Leeds and Bradford with Skipton. Some services along the line continue to Morecambe or Carlisle. The route covered by the service was historically...
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  • Morecambe Poulton Lane was the original terminus station of the London and North Western Railway's branch to Morecambe, Lancaster, Lancashire, England...
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    Railway (NWR) wanted to connect Morecambe, where a harbour was being developed, with Skipton. The NWR opened a line from Morecambe to its own station at Lancaster...
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  • The West Coast Main Line is a major trunk railway in the United Kingdom, linking London with Glasgow. The Watford DC lines are intricately linked with...
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    North Wales Main Line South Wales Main Line Shrewsbury–Chester line Welsh Marches line Butetown branch line Cardiff City Line Coryton Line Ebbw Valley Railway...
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    Torrisholme (category Morecambe)
    of Morecambe. Poulton-le-Sands is north-west of the village with Bare located to the north. The boundary with Bare is formed by the Morecambe Branch Line...
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    a junction on the Hull and Selby Railway was a branch of that railway, and ran to Bridlington; the line from Bridlington to Seamer Junction was promoted...
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    Bakerloo line at its opening 1922 Euston and Broad Street connected to the line; branch to Croxley Green (L&NWR) 1927 Rickmansworth branch (LMS) See...
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    between Settle Junction, on the Leeds–Morecambe line, and Carlisle, near the English-Scottish borders. The historic line was constructed in the 1870s and has...
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  • was situated on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (the West Coast Main Line) between Carlisle and Penrith. It served the village of Plumpton and the...
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