Oxenholme Lake District railway station
Oxenholme Lake District 
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| Location | |
| Place | Oxenholme |
| Local authority | District of South Lakeland |
| Coordinates | 54°18′18″N 2°43′19″W / 54.305°N 2.722°WCoordinates: 54°18′18″N 2°43′19″W / 54.305°N 2.722°W |
| Grid reference | SD531901 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | OXN |
| Managed by | Virgin Trains |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| DfT category | D |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.436 million |
| 2012/13 |
 0.421 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.436 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.489 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.522 million |
| – Interchange | 0.277 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Lancaster and Carlisle Railway |
| Pre-grouping | London and North Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| July 1847 | Opened as Kendal Junction |
| c. 1860 | Renamed Oxenholme |
| 1988 | Renamed Oxenholme The Lake District |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Oxenholme Lake District from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Oxenholme Lake District railway station (often shortened to Oxenholme) is a railway station in Oxenholme, near Kendal, in Cumbria, England. The station is situated on the West Coast Main Line and is also the start of the Windermere Branch Line to Windermere. All platforms are electrified, however platform 3 on the Windermere branch has limited capacity for longer trains. The station serves as a main line connection point for Kendal, and is managed by Virgin Trains.
The station was constructed as part of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (which is now a section on the West Coast Main Line from London to Glasgow). Initially the railway was earmarked to go via Kendal. However, a 2.1 mi (3.4 km) tunnel would have had to been built north of the town to accommodate this route. As it was deemed too expensive an option, a line running 1 mi (1.6 km) east of Kendal was adopted. The line between Lancaster and Oxenholme opened in September 1846. Trains from Lancaster passed through Oxenholme to a temporary terminus at Kendal. This ended when the line to Carlisle was completed in December 1847.
With the decision to avoid Kendal, the Kendal and Windermere Railway was promoted instead with Oxenholme becoming a junction station. The branch line would be between Oxenholme and its terminus at Windermere (although it actually is in Birthwaite about 0.75 mi (1.21 km) from the actual lake). It opened in April 1847.
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