Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
The Lancaster and Carlisle Railway was established in June 1844. The company should enable a railway connection between the two cities of Lancaster and Carlisle . In July 1844, construction of the route began on the Shap Summit pass at 278.59 m - the highest point of the planned route. The connection was put into operation in two sections. On September 22, 1847, the line between Lancaster and Oxenholme was opened. The Kendal and Windermere Railway , also operated by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway , branched off in Oxenholme and began operating with the opening of the line from Lancaster to Oxenholme to Kendal . The section between Oxenholme and Carlisle was opened on December 22, 1847.
The construction of the line at this time and with this route was a remarkable achievement, because at Shap Summit the railway line was not only cut into the rock over a length of 800 m, the ascent of 1:75 to the north was by many trains can only be mastered with the support of additional locomotives that were stationed in Tebay for this purpose . A route along the coast had also been considered as an alternative to a connection.
The Lancaster and Carlisle Railway had a connection to the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway in the south and the Caledonian Railway in the north .
The company was very profitable, with a profit of around 10% for its shareholders, but in 1859 the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway was leased to the London and North Western Railway and taken over entirely by them in 1879.
The route between Lancaster and Carlisle is now part of the West Coast Main Line .
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- Christopher Awdry, Encyclopedia of British Railway Companies, Guild Publishing, London, 1990.