Carnforth

CRS Code	CNF
Collected date	06/09/14

Try pulling your eyelid down and then blowing your nose. And then start a station collecting holiday at Carnforth. The station sits on the West Coast Main Line, but doesn't have any platforms on it any more. But thanks to the station's fame from its use in Brief Encounter there's still quite a lot there doing a variety of heritage jobs.

The front of the station building is still partly in railway use, housing the ticket office:

The entrance to the ticket office:

On the platform behind the station building looking northwards:

The station building rear seen from the island platform:

The station building backs onto a stretch of platform, fenced off on the right from the West Coast Main Line:

Access to the rest of the station is via a subway:

Looking up the subway:

The subway leads under the WCML, where former platforms are replaced with fencing and banked sides:

The island building facing the WCML is the rear of the Carnforth heritage centre:

Up the subway ramp to the island platform and the waiting area next to platform 1:

Looking south on platform 1:

The clock:

The railings between the subway and the WCML:

Much of the area under the canopy is fenced off and forms part of the heritage centre:

The heritage centre under the canopy:

Looking west along the platforms:

The western end of platform 1 is fenced off and sprouting:

The subway continues to get to platform 2:

The entrance to platform 2 from the subway:

Platform 2 is very unlike platform 1 and is largely just plain concrete. A few murals decorate the wall, though:

At the southern end of platform 2 looking north:

Looking south along the line from the same point:

Looking west along platform 2:

Looking east at the platforms:

The rear of platform 2:

The unusual building at the western end of platform 1 is the original Furness Railway signalbox:

The signalbox to the west of the station:

A road bridge crosses the line to the north of the station. Looking back south/west from the bridge at the WCML:

Looking east:

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