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. | |
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CDS53.jpg (taken 25.8.2015) BJR80.jpg (taken 9.8.2005) |
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evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Old Station, The |
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source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "THE OLD STATION AT DENT RAILWAY STATION / / / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484283 / SD7641787481" |
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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)." |
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evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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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" |
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evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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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" |
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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." |
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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) |
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BUG24.jpg "train approaqching from N." (taken 24.3.2011) BUG25.jpg Train in station. (taken 24.3.2011) |
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The line is used by British Gypsum, Kirkby Thore. |
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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) |
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BYL40.jpg View N. (taken 31.5.2013) BYL41.jpg View S. (taken 31.5.2013) |
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BYL50.jpg Snow fences. (taken 31.5.2013) BYL51.jpg Snow fences. (taken 31.5.2013) |
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The fell NE of the station, Blackmire, has several rows of snow fencing. |
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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. |
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