Aspatria

CRS Code	ASP
Collected date	17/09/15

Aspatria is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, and its station buildings are either disused or in private hands. However, someone's care and attention keep the platforms looking nice.

The approach to the station. The buildings on the right are private residential buildings; that on the left is disused:

The entrance to the station is through this archway:

The entrance arch leads on to platform 1 which the station building faces:

There are actually two residential buildings facing platform 1, separated by the flower-adorned white gate in the middle:

This chap gazes out from the gable end:

On platform 1 looking east towards the station buildings:

Just east of the station entrance archway is this modern shelter and the footbridge which joins the two platforms:

Climbing up on to the footbridge we look west at the station:

Looking east along the line from the footbridge:

The underside of the footbridge is decorated and rusty:

Having crossed the footbridge, we look west along platform 2 with platform 1 on the right:

Platform 2 has its own entrance too, which leads to the road via the car park of the cheese factory next door:

Looking east on platform 2:

Through the cheese factory car park, the exit leads to a road bridge over the line just to the west of the station. From that bridge, looking east at the station:

Looking west along the line from the bridge:

Back on platform 1, looking west at the bridge:

And at the other end of platform 1 looking east:

All photographs are © Alexandra Lanes You may reproduce them anywhere for any purpose. Coastline maps are reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey © Crown copyright 2001