page_title: Eden Valley Railway
section_title: 1948 to 1989: British Rail
hierarchical_section_title: Eden Valley Railway / History / 1948 to 1989: British Rail
caption_attribution_description: English: Rusty rails. The disused MOD sidings at Warcop before they were reused as shown in 76834.
context_page_description: The Eden Valley Railway was a railway in Cumbria, England. It ran between Clifton Junction near Penrith and Kirkby Stephen via Appleby-in-Westmorland.
  Passenger traffic ended in 1962 and the line was reduced to the track between the junction at Appleby station with the Settle-Carlisle Line and Kirkby Stephen which served a quarry. By 1976 all that was left was 6 miles of track between Appleby in Westmorland and Flitholme. It was used by infrequent British Army services to Warcop Training Area until 1989.
  In 1995 the Eden Valley Railway Society was formed with the aim of reinstating services and restoring on the line. Heritage railway services resumed in 2006 between Warcop and Sandford, with an extension of ¹⁄₂ mile being opened in 2013, giving a current running line of almost 2 ¹⁄₄ miles.
context_section_description: In 1948 the railways of Britain were nationalised and the line became part of British Rail. In the following decade several stations closed: Musgrave station in 1952, Kirkby Thore in 1953, Temple Sowerby closed to passengers in 1953, and Cliburn station in 1956.
  In 1958 a two car diesel multiple unit service was introduced. However between 1962 and 1963 the entire line closed to passengers. At the same time the Stainmore railway also closed completely apart from a short section of track eastwards from Kirkby Stephen East railway station to Merrygill Viaduct for the quarry nearby. From then on only freight trains used the line.
  The line from Clifton to Appleby was also closed, and, from 1963 points east of Appleby could only be reached via the junction with the Settle and Carlisle railway at Appleby. Freight trains still ran from Appleby to Kirkby Stephen and then to Hartley Quarry (54.469763°N 2.326612°W). In 1974 that service ended and the track was removed except for about 5 ¹⁄₂ miles (9 km) between Appleby and Warcop. Trains for the Warcop Training Area north of Warcop village ran until 1989.
caption: Ministry of Defence sidings at Warcop in 1989
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