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Appleby Station, Appleby
Appleby Station
Appleby West Station
site name:-   Settle and Carlisle Railway
locality:-   Appleby
civil parish:-   Appleby-in-Westmorland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   NY68652068
1Km square:-   NY6820
10Km square:-   NY62
SummaryText:-   Opened as Appleby Station 18876; renamed Appleby West Station 1952-1968; then Appleby Station.


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BJY73.jpg (taken 28.10.2005)  
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BJY71.jpg (taken 28.10.2005)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Appleby Station
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"APPLEBY STATION, MAIN BUILDING / / STATION ROAD / APPLEBY IN WESTMORLAND / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73721 / NY6864420675"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Railway station. 1876, for the Midland Railway. Red brick with standstone dressings and Welsh slate roof. Single storey range with cross-wing at north end. Platform elevation: Five bays with 1, 3 and 5 gabled, the most southerly one is smaller. Openings from left to right: 2-light window, door, single-light window, tall 3-light window, 3-bay timber and glazed screen with cast iron part lozenge glazing and double doors, tall 3-light window, lower wing with door. All windows are 4-pane sashes with stone heads. The large gabled bays have stone quoins, trefoils in gables, fretted bargeboards. Four tall ridge stacks. End gables with bargeboards. Street elevation: 2 and 3-light sashes, otherwise plain. Interior: Planning largely unchanged. An almost unaltered example of the larger type of Settle and Carlisle station (q.v. Settle Station)."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"APPLEBY STATION, EAST PLATFORM BUILDING / / STATION ROAD / APPLEBY IN WESTMORLAND / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73722 / NY6865720691"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Railway station. 1876 for the Midland Railway. Red brick with standstone dressings and Welsh slate roof. Single storey single depth range. Platform elevation has four paired sash windows with stone heads and a plain doorway. South gable end with 2-light window. Gables with trefoils and fretted barge- boards. North gable end with plain doorway instead of window as designed. Part of an almost unaltered example of the large type of Settle and Carlisle Station (q.v. Settle Station). Included for group value."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"FOOTBRIDGE AT APPLEBY STATION / / STATION ROAD / APPLEBY IN WESTMORLAND / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73720 / NY6863420700"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Mid/Late C19 iron footbridge moved to Appleby West in 1901 from Mansfield Station. Span reconstructed after damage in 1902. Fluted cast iron columns with acanthus capitals support stairways. Segmental arched wrought iron lattice footbridge. Appleby Station is the former Appleby West of the Settle-Carlisle section of the Midland Railway, opened 1876. Plates 522, 523, A Pictorial Record of LMS Architecture. V.R. Anderson and G.K. Fox. Oxford Publishing Co. 1981."


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BJY74.jpg (taken 28.10.2005)  
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BJY75.jpg (taken 28.10.2005)  
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BJY76.jpg (taken 28.10.2005)  
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BQR34.jpg  ICI Salt waggon parked in a siding.
(taken 31.5.2009)  

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