Garsdale railway station
Garsdale 
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Garsdale railway station
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| Location | |
| Place | Garsdale Head |
| Local authority | South Lakeland |
| Coordinates | 54°19′16″N 2°19′34″W / 54.321°N 2.326°WCoordinates: 54°19′16″N 2°19′34″W / 54.321°N 2.326°W |
| Grid reference | SD788918 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | GSD |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 14,850 |
| 2012/13 |
 15,136 |
| 2013/14 |
16,234 |
| 2014/15 |
15,614 |
| 2015/16 |
15,684 |
| History | |
| 1 August 1876 | Opened as Hawes Junction |
| 20 January 1900 | Renamed Hawes Junction and Garsdale |
| 1 September 1932 | Renamed Garsdale |
| 4 May 1970 | Closed |
| 14 July 1986 | Reopened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Garsdale from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Garsdale railway station is a railway station which serves the immediate hamlet of Garsdale Head, Cumbria, England, together with the valley of Garsdale and the nearby towns of Sedbergh, Cumbria and Hawes, North Yorkshire. It is operated by Northern who provide all passenger train services; it is situated 61 1⁄2 miles (99 km) north of Leeds.
The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders, though not in the same style as used elsewhere on the route.
Adjoining the station are sixteen Railway Cottages built for its employees by the Midland Railway around 1876, the year the Settle-Carlisle Line opened. A further six cottages were added near to the Moorcock Inn soon afterwards. In the days of steam-hauled London-Scotland expresses, the locality once boasted the highest water troughs in the world (just along the line at Ling Gill). Unusually, the station waiting room was once used for Anglican church services, and the railway turntable had a wall of sleepers built around it to prevent locomotives being spun by strong winds: this happened in 1900 and was the inspiration for the story 'Tenders and Turntables' in the book 'Troublesome Engines' in The Railway Series by Rev W. Awdry.
The Hawes Junction rail crash of 1910 occurred near to the station, which was originally named Hawes Junction, as it was the junction of a branch line to Hawes. This line was closed in March 1959, though it is the long-term aim of the Wensleydale Railway to extend their rails along the former route from Redmire to connect with services here, allowing through journeys to Northallerton on the East Coast Main Line. The signal box (opened just a few months before the Christmas 1910 accident) on the northbound platform is still in use today.
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