Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Dent Station, Dent


	Dent Station, Dent
	Dent Station
site name:-	Settle and Carlisle Railway
locality:-	Dentdale
civil parish:-	Dent (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	railway station
coordinates:-	SD76438749
1Km square:-	SD7687
10Km square:-	SD78
altitude:-	1150 feet
altitude:-	351m
SummaryText:-	Opened 1877; closed 1970; opened 1986.

	CDS53.jpg (taken 25.8.2015) BJR80.jpg (taken 9.8.2005)

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Old Station, The
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "THE OLD STATION AT DENT RAILWAY STATION / / / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484283 / SD7641787481"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Railway station booking hall, waiting rooms (etc); now in private ownership and conversion as dwelling in progress at time of inspection (July 1994). Probably c1870, for Midland Railway Company; slightly altered. Coursed rock-faced sandstone with freestone dressings and steeply-pitched Welsh slate roofs with pierced blue ridge tiles. Linear plan on north-south axis facing the track to the east, the main range a modified U-plan with a low wing attached at the south end. Free Tudor style." "EXTERIOR: the main range has 2 short but large gabled wings clasping a low single-storey projected centre roofed at a shallower pitch: this has a central doorway flanked by large windows with geometrical tracery; and the wings each have a large segmental-pointed window with a transom and 2 mullions, all the lights so formed having margin panes, a traceried oculus above, and oversailing barge-boarded eaves. Two tall corniced ashlar chimneys on the ridge; gable barge-boarding. The wing at the south end is one low storey, with a doorway flanked by a 1-light window to the left and a 2-light mullioned window to the right. Rear: projected gabled centre like the wings at the front (window damaged at time of inspection); 2 tall narrow windows each side, all with transoms and margin panes. Wing to south has small windows of 1 and 2 lights with very small rectilinear margin panes." "INTERIOR: not inspected." "Forms group with Passenger Waiting Room (qv) on opposite side of track, and with Building (former workers' barracks) approx. 150m to south-east (qv)."

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "BUILDING (FORMER WORKERS BARRACKS) APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF DENT RAILWAY STATION / / / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484281 / SD7647087364"

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "PASSENGER WAITING ROOM ON EAST SIDE OF RAILWAY TRACK AT DENT STATION / / / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484282 / SD7643687492"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Railway passenger waiting room. c1870, for the Midland Railway Company. Coursed rock-faced sandstone with freestone dressings, Welsh slate roof with sandstone gable copings and pierced blue ridge tiles. Rectangular plan parallel to track, facing west. One low storey, 4 windows, symmetrical: a large doorway in the centre with a panelled door, flanked by two pairs of 2 light mullioned windows on either side, all these openings with moulded reveals and rounded corners. Doorway in left gable wall." "INTERIOR: not inspected." "Forms group with The Old Station (qv) on the opposite side of the track and with Building (former workers' barracks, qv) approx. 150m south-east."

	CDS46.jpg (taken 25.8.2015) BJR79.jpg (taken 9.8.2005) BYL42.jpg Waiting room, up side. (taken 31.5.2013) CDS57.jpg (taken 25.8.2015) BJR81.jpg "DENT STATION / THE HIGHEST MAIN LINE STATION IN ENGLAND / 1150 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL" (taken 9.8.2005) BJR82.jpg (taken 9.8.2005) BYL43.jpg Station clock. (taken 31.5.2013) CDS58.jpg Scales and a barrow; scales made by Parnall and Sons, Bristol. (taken 31.5.2013) BYL45.jpg Seat. (taken 31.5.2013) BYL46.jpg Sign. (taken 31.5.2013) Click to enlarge CDS52.jpg Where to go next. (taken 25.8.2015)

	BUG24.jpg "train approaqching from N." (taken 24.3.2011) BUG25.jpg Train in station. (taken 24.3.2011)

MN photo:-	The line is used by British Gypsum, Kirkby Thore.
	CDS48.jpg Train of gypsum wagons. (taken 24.3.2011) CDS49.jpg Train of gypsum wagons. (taken 24.3.2011) CDS50.jpg Wagons. (taken 24.3.2011) CDS51.jpg British Gypsum sign. (taken 24.3.2011)

	BYL40.jpg View N. (taken 31.5.2013) BYL41.jpg View S. (taken 31.5.2013)

	BYL50.jpg Snow fences. (taken 31.5.2013) BYL51.jpg Snow fences. (taken 31.5.2013)
	The fell NE of the station, Blackmire, has several rows of snow fencing.

hearsay:-	The railway is exposed to winter snow. About 1947 a number of 4E 0-6-0 locomotives were fitted, by the LMS, with the means of attaching steel snowploughs at the forward end. A number of brake vans were converted to mess vans accommodating six men, and having tools and telephone equipment. Telephone points were installed at lineside huts etc. A small locomotive depot was made at Dent to hold the snowploughs and locomotives, a wagon of coal for fuel was placed here in the Autumn, and there was accomodation with bunks and a mess for ten men.

Lakes Guides menu.