Carnforth railway station
Carnforth 
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| Location | |
| Place | Carnforth |
| Local authority | Lancaster |
| Coordinates | 54°07′48″N 2°46′16″W / 54.130°N 2.771°WCoordinates: 54°07′48″N 2°46′16″W / 54.130°N 2.771°W |
| Grid reference | SD496706 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CNF |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.191 million |
| – Interchange |
9,920 |
| 2012/13 |
 0.196 million |
| – Interchange |
9,048 |
| 2013/14 |
0.207 million |
| – Interchange |
8,529 |
| 2014/15 |
0.204 million |
| – Interchange |
9,036 |
| 2015/16 |
0.207 million |
| – Interchange |
9,913 |
| History | |
| Original company | Lancaster and Carlisle Railway and Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway |
| Pre-grouping | LNWR, Furness Railway and Midland Railway joint |
| Post-grouping | London Midland and Scottish Railway |
| 22 September 1846 | L&CR station opened as Carnforth-Yealand |
| February 1864 | L&CR station renamed Carnforth |
| 6 June 1857 | U&LR station opened as Carnforth |
| 2 August 1880 | The two stations were replaced by a single station |
| May 1970 | West Coast Main Line platforms closed |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Carnforth from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Carnforth railway station serves the town of Carnforth in Lancashire, England. The building was designed by architect William Tite and was used as a location in the 1945 film Brief Encounter. It is now operated by Northern.
Carnforth railway station was opened in 1846 by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (L&CR). It had a single platform and was a second-class station. It became a junction in 1857 when the Ulverston and Lancaster Railway arrived from the northwest, the station was its southern terminus. The Furness Railway took over the U&LR in 1862 and became the second major company operating to Carnforth.
The station was enlarged during the 1870s and in 1880 received trains from the Midland Railway following the commissioning of a south-to-east direct curve to the Furness and Midland Joint Railway that created a triangular junction. The L&CR was taken over by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) and Carnforth was operated under joint management by Furness, Midland and LNWR. Station personnel wore a uniform with the initials CJS for Carnforth: Joint Station. The Furness Railway erected a distinctive stone-built signal box to the north-west of the station in 1882, used until 1903, and this survives preserved as a listed building.
A major rebuilding project, including a 300-yard long platform (currently used by northbound services), took place in 1938 with government funding - it brought the number of platforms in use to six. In 1944, the government approved the rebuilding of Carnforth MPD into a major regional railway depot.
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