Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway
Locale	Cumbria,England
Terminus	Lakeside
Commercial operations
Name	Ulverston to Lakeside Line
Built by	Furness Railway
Original gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)standard gauge
Preserved operations
Operated by	Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway
Stations	3
Length	3.2 mi (5.1 km)
Preserved gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)standard gauge
Commercial history
Opened	1 June 1869
Closed	6 September 1965
Preservation history
Opened	2 May 1973
Headquarters	Haverthwaite

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Legend
Lakeside Windermere Newby Bridge River Leven Haverthwaite Greenodd Ulverston Furness Line

TheLakeside and Haverthwaite Railway (L&HR) is a 3.2-mile-long (5.1 km)heritage railway inCumbria,England.

The railway is a formerbranch line of theFurness Railway (FR) and was opened on 1 June 1869.^[1] The line was served by local passenger trains which started their journey atUlverston on the FR's main line fromCarnforth toBarrow-in-Furness.

The FR branch trains travelled east to the triangular junction atPlumpton, then turned north viaGreenodd and on to stations at Haverthwaite, Newby Bridge halt and Lakeside. The FR's weekdays passenger service in July 1922 comprised eight trains in each direction. There were advertised train-to-boat connections that were established in 1869. During the summer season, excursion trains fromLancashire and elsewhere used the east-to-north side of Plumpton Junction to reach Lakeside, where their passengers joined the boat sailings on the lake.

British Railways closed the line to passengers on 6 September 1965, and to all traffic two years later.^[2]

A group ofenthusiasts, chaired byDr Peter Beet, formed the Lakeside Railway Estates Company; they had the idea of preserving both the line and the former LMS 10A locomotive shed atCarnforth, to provide a complete steam operating system. However, although backed by then transport ministerBarbara Castle, the need to build a number ofmotorway bridges and rerouting of theA590 road from Haverthwaite via Greenodd to Plumpton Junction, meant that the complete vision was unsuccessful. Beet acquired 10A in partnership withSir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet, which became the visitor attractionSteamtown from 1967. The venture folded as a public access visitor attraction in 1997, but the preserved site was taken over by businessman David Smith to become the base for hisWest Coast Railway Company.^[3]

As a result, Austin Maher became chairman of the LREC, which then reopened the truncated 3.5-mile (5.6 km) L&HR as a heritage railway on 2 May 1973.^[4] Maher and fellow L&HR director Jim Morris each bought oneLMS 2-6-4TClass 4MT, nos. 42073 (Maher) and 42085 (Morris), which were restored eventually as L&HR nos. 3 and 4, became the line's core steam power units.

The L&HR runs fromHaverthwaite, at the southern end of the line, viaNewby Bridge toLakeside at the southern end ofWindermere. Some services are timed to connect with sailings of the diesel excursion vessels or steam vessels on Windermere, sailing from Lakeside toBowness andAmbleside.

Information below derived from the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway Visitors Guide sixth edition and theIRS reference book.^[5]

Number	Name	Built	Builder	Type	Former Operator	Notes	Image
2333	David	1953	Barclay	0-4-0ST	Millom Ironworks	Boiler ticket expires in 2029; painted in maroon lined out in black and yellow[6]
2682	Princess	1942	Bagnall	0-6-0ST	Preston Docks	Boiler ticket expires in 2029; painted in dark blue lined out in black and red[7]
3698	Repulse	1950	Hunslet	0-6-0ST,Austerity Tank	National Coal Board	Boiler ticket expires in 2026; painted in lined black[8]
42073		1950	British Railways,Brighton works to anLMS design	2-6-4T,Class 4MT	British Railways	Returned to service in 2014; painted BR black with late crest[9]

Number	Name	Built	Builder	Type	Former Operator	Notes	Image
2996	Victor	1951	Bagnall	0-6-0ST,New Standard 18	Steel Company of Wales forPort Talbot Steelworks,Austin Motor Company	Boiler ticket expired in 2024; painted in maroon lined out in black and yellow[10]
42085		1951	British Railways,Brighton works to anLMS design	2-6-4T,Class 4MT	British Railways	Undergoing overhaul; painted BR black with early emblem[11]
46441		1951	British Railways,Crewe works to anLMS design	2-6-0,Class 2MT	British Railways	Running In, Boiler ticket expires in 2033. Painted BR maroon with late crest.[12][13]46441 began its running in testing in November 2023 and is intended to return to revenue service in 2024.[14]

The list of locomotives below contains those currently identified as having been resident at Haverthwaite in the past. It is, in all probability, not an exhaustive list.

Number	Name	Built	Builder	Type	Former Operator	Notes	Image
1 (works Nº 1925)	Caliban	1937	Peckett	0-4-0ST, OY class	Courtaulds,Preston	At theRibble Steam Railway in Preston[15][16]
5 (works Nº 1631)		1929	Hudswell Clarke	0-6-0ST	Stewarts & Lloyds	Acquired November 1970; now atTyseley[17][18]
6 (works Nº 1366)		1919	Hudswell Clarke	0-6-0ST	Renishaw Ironworks Nº 6	Acquired November 1970; now at theTanfield Railway[19][20]
20		1863	Sharp Stewart	0-4-0,FR class 17, Rush class A5	Furness Railway,Barrow Steelworks	Built as an 0-4-0; rebuilt for Barrow Steelworks as an0-4-0ST, running as Nº 7; rebuilt in preservation to original configuration. Owned by theFurness Railway Trust[21] and operational at theRibble Steam Railway inPreston[22][16]
1550	Sir James	1917	Barclay	0-6-0F	War Department,Gretna	On static display atHM Factory, Gretna[23][24]
1900		1936	Peckett	0-4-0T	Courtaulds,Holywell	Operated during the summer of 1983; now at theBuckinghamshire Railway Centre[25][26]
3794	Cumbria	1953	Hunslet	0-6-0ST,Austerity Tank	Ministry of Defence	Owned by theFurness Railway Trust[21] and normally operational at theRibble Steam Railway inPreston, but currently operating at theEmbsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway; boiler ticket expires in May 2025; painted in FR red[27][16][28]
5643		1925	GWR,Swindon Works	0-6-2T	GWR,British Railways	Owned by theFurness Railway Trust[21] and normally operational at theRibble Steam Railway inPreston but currently undergoing extended maintenance at theEast Lancashire Railway inBury[29][16][30]
44806	Magpie	1944	LMS,Derby Works	4-6-0,Black 5	LMS,British Railways	Acquired November 1970; moved toSteamport Southport; now atNorth Yorkshire Moors Railway with plans to return to the mainline[31][32]

Information below derived from the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway Visitors Guide sixth edition and theIRS reference book.^[5]

Number	Name	Built	Builder	Type	Former Operator	Notes	Image
8		1959	British Railways,Swindon Works	0-6-0DMClass 03	British Railways as D2117	Operational
AD601		1945	LMS,Derby Works	0-6-0DEClass 11	War Department	Operational. One of a batch of locomotives built for the War Department, the design of which led to the class of locomotives that eventually became BR Class 11.
D2072		1959	British Railways,Doncaster Works	0-6-0DMClass 03	British Railways asTOPS 03 072	Operational
20 214	Austin Maher	1967	English Electric	Bo-BoClass 20	British Railways	Operational
52071+52077		1961	Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company	Class 110 DMU	British Railways	Operational

Not a locomotive in the traditional sense but is capable of, and has been used for, limited shunting operations.

The list of locomotives below contains those currently identified as having been resident at Haverthwaite in the past. It is, in all probability, not an exhaustive list.

Information below derived from the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway Visitors Guide sixth edition.

Number	Built	Builder	Type	Notes	Image
3881	1953	BRYork Works	Mk. 1TSO (Tourist Standard Open)	Crimson and cream livery
3962	1954	BREastleigh Works	Mk. 1 TSO	Crimson and cream livery
4255	1956	BR York Works	Mk. 1 TSO	Crimson and cream livery
4410	1957	BRSwindon Works	Mk. 1 TSO	Crimson and cream livery
4760	1957	BR York works	Mk. 1 TSO	Crimson and cream livery
9218	1953	BRDoncaster Works	Mk. 1BSO (Brake Standard Open)	Crimson and cream livery
25337	1957	BRWolverton Works	Mk. 1SK (Standard Corridor)	Crimson and cream livery
25364	1957	BR Wolverton Works	Mk. 1 SK	Crimson and cream livery
35309	1962	BR Wolverton Works	Mk. 1BSK (Brake Standard Corridor)	Crimson and cream livery
35362	1962	BR Wolverton Works	Mk. 1 BSK	Crimson and cream livery

There are a selection of assorted goods vehicles.

InChristopher Awdry's bookThomas & Victoria, the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway is featured as part of the railway route where Victoria worked along both Helena and Albert before coming to Sodor. In theThomas the Tank Engine TV series, the railway was filmed for a series of short educational segments entitledDown at the Station.

In the adaptation ofAgatha Christie's novel,Dumb Witness, byITV for its television series,Agatha Christie's Poirot, the opening scene was filmed at the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway, at the Lakeside terminus.

The railway and Haverthwaite station are featured in the video toNever Went to Church by alternative hip hop bandThe Streets.^[35]

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995).The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.).Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7.OCLC 60251199.OL 11956311M.

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