Furness Line

Furness Line

Legend Cumbrian Coast Line Barrow-in-Furness Furness Abbey Roose Barrow Harbor power plant Dalton-in-Furness after Stainton with Adgarley Ulverston to Bardsea to Lakeside Leven Cark and Cartmel Kent's Bank Grange-over-Sands River Kent Arnside to the WCML at Hincaster Silverdale West Coast Main Line heading north Leeds to Morecambe Line Carnforth Morecambe Branch Line Lancaster West Coast Main Line heading south

The Furness Line is a railway line in north-west England that runs from Barrow-in-Furness via Ulverston and Grange-over-Sands . The railway line has a connection to the West Coast Main Line at Carnforth and continues north of Barrow on the Cumbrian Coast Line .

A branch line that branched off to Lakeside in Ulverston is now operated as a museum railway by the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway after its closure in 1965 .

The train connections between Barrow-in-Furness via Carnforth to Lancaster and Manchester are operated by TransPennine Express . Further connections between Lancaster and Barrow with continuation in the direction of Carlisle via the Cumbrian Coast Line are operated by Northern Rail .

Engineering structures

View of the railway bridge over the Kent Estuary into Morecambe Bay

Estuary of the Leven in Morecambe Bay with a railway bridge

The most important bridges on the route are the crossings of the mouths of the Kent rivers between Arnside and Grange-on-Sands and Leven between Cark and Cartmel and Ulverston into Morecambe Bay .