page_title: Lakeside railway station (England)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Lakeside railway station (England) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Lakeside, Windermere station, 1951View to buffer-stops, with a train for Ulverston waiting, headed by LMS Fowler class 4MT 2-6-4T No. 42376 (built 1932, withdrawn 11/62). The station and ex-Furness Railway branch from Ulverston was closed 31/8/41 - 3/6/46, then 6/9/65. However, since 2/5/73 the heritage Haverthwaite &amp; Lakeside Railway have restored the end of the line from Haverthwaite.
context_page_description: Lakeside railway station is a railway station on the heritage Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway. It was previously the terminus of the Furness Railway Ulverston to Lakeside Line, which was closed as part of the Beeching Axe in 1965. It serves the village of Lakeside in Cumbria, as well as the tourist attractions located there.
context_section_description: The station was opened to passengers on 2 June 1869 by the Furness Railway when the branch from Plumpton Junction (just off the Leven Viaduct on the Ulverston to Carnforth line) to Windermere Lake Side opened, a formal opening of the branch had taken place the day before.
  Trains were timed to coincide with sailings by the Windermere United Yacht Company from the adjacent pier. Within a few years the railway bought the yacht company. 
  Originally, the station had two platforms with an overall roof, a signal box, turntable and several sidings. The goods yard was able to accommodate most types of goods including live stock and was equipped with a three ton crane. 
  As well as the standard gauge tracks the station had a narrow gauge tramway used for coaling lake steamers. A camping coach was positioned here by the London Midland Region from 1955 to 1957, two coaches were here from 1958 to 1964.
  The station closed with the line on 6 September 1965. After services stopped, the station fell into disrepair, and in 1978, British Railways removed the roof and demolished the clock tower. 
  British Railways sold off the steamboat service to the Bowness Bay Boating Company who were still operating day trips on Windermere in 2020.
  The station reopened as part of the heritage Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway in 1973, with trains running to the nearby station of Haverthwaite, roughly an eighteen-minute journey.
caption: Lakeside, Windermere station, 1951.
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