Grange-Over-Sands

CRS Code	GOS
Collected date	10/09/14

Grange-over-Sands is the station just on the other side of Morecambe Bay from Arnside, but the station has long since stopped being over sands of any sort as the beaches have turned to salt marsh.

The station has two platforms, with the main station building on the north (landward) side of the line. The front of the station building:

Longer views of the front of the station building, first from the west end of the car park:

And from the eastern end of the car park:

The station is full of little details, like this lamp bracket bearing the Furness Railway initials:

Next to the entrance porch this plaque gives a bit of architectural detail about the station, which is "thought to be a replica of the top storey of Grange Hotel":

Inside the porch on the front of the building there is a door ahead and one on the right, which serves as an emergency exit for the waiting room. To the left is the open door into the ticket office:

Inside the ticket office, with a small cafe on the left, and the ticket counter just off to the right of this photo:

The station building backs on to platform 1. This is a view of the rear of the station building from platform 2 opposite:

On platform 1 looking east at the canopy ironwork:

The plaques at the eastern end of platform 1 acknowledge the station's restoration in 1997-8:

Under the canopy, looking at the bay window and entrance to the waiting room on the left:

On platform 1, looking east at the side of the station building:

At the very western end of platform 1 looking east at both platforms, with the Kent estuary on the right:

Looking west:

A view of the canopies on both sides of the line:

At the eastern end of platform 1 we look back west at both platforms:

Looking east along the line we can see the track go over the underpass, and the signalbox in the distance:

A bit of zoom and we can see the Grange over Sands signalbox:

Access to the seaward side of the station is via this underpass that crosses the line at the eastern end of the station:

Looking up at the side of the building on platform 2:

Platform 2 has two end buildings at platform level, with a canopy in the middle and windows in the boundary wall looking out to sea:

Looking through the windows out at the estuary:

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