Barrow-in-Furness railway station

The present station was formerly known as Barrow Central and, at one time, it was a terminus for British Rail's InterCity services. From October 1947 until May 1983, these included sleeper services to and from London Euston. A sleeper service in the London direction only was reintroduced briefly between May 1987 and May 1990.

The original Barrow station of 1846 had been a wooden building at Rabbit Hill, near to the site of the present St. George's Square. It was eventually replaced in 1863 by a new brick building close by, which had been designed by the Lancaster architect Edward Paley, and which latterly came to be known as Cambridge Hall.

On 1 June 1882, the town's principal station was transferred to its present site below Abbey Road, following the construction of a new loop line. It had to be almost entirely rebuilt in the late 1950s,^[1] after World War II, having largely been destroyed by enemy bombing on 7 May 1941.

From 1907 to 1941, the Furness Railway steam locomotive, Coppernob, was preserved in a special glass case outside the station. It was subsequently transferred away for additional security and is now in the National Railway Museum at York.

The station has the following facilities:^[2]

• Platform 1 contains the entrance to the station; it has a waiting area, ticket & information office, and toilets, along with a café.
• Between platforms 2 and 3 is an indoor waiting area, with live departures indicator, a vending machine and speakers. There are offices for staff and British Transport Police.
• Electronic information signs have been installed, along with improved CCTV after several incidents on the station. Ramps have been provided for access and this is continuing with provision of better access to platforms 2 and 3
• There is a car park with 61 spaces, along with bicycle racks and storage.

Northern Trains operates the following general off-peak service pattern in trains per hour/day (tph/tpd):^[6]

• 1 tph to Carlisle, via Sellafield, Whitehaven and Workington
• 10 tpd to Manchester Airport, via Lancaster, Preston and Manchester Piccadilly
• 1 tpd to Bolton, via Preston and Lancaster
• 5 tpd to Preston, via Lancaster
• 8 tpd to Lancaster.

One service per day operates to/from Sellafield, specifically for workers at the nuclear plant.

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Carlisle Dalston Wigton Aspatria Maryport Flimby Workington Harrington Parton Whitehaven Corkickle St Bees Nethertown Braystones Sellafield Seascale Drigg Ravenglass Bootle Silecroft Millom Green Road Foxfield Kirkby-in-Furness Askam Barrow-in-Furness Roose Dalton Ulverston Cark & Cartmel Kents Bank Grange-over-Sands Arnside Silverdale Carnforth Windermere Staveley Burneside Kendal Oxenholme Lake District Lancaster Preston Chorley Bolton Deansgate Manchester Oxford Road Manchester Piccadilly Manchester Airport

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Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Terminus		Northern Trains Cumbria–Manchester Airport		Roose
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Askam		Northern Trains Cumbrian Coast Line		Terminus
Terminus		Northern Trains Furness Line		Roose
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Island Road		Furness Railway		Roose

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In the Railway Series books by the Rev. W Awdry, and the adapted television series Thomas & Friends, Barrow Central is the mainland terminus for the Fat Controller's North Western Railway. It is connected to the fictional Island of Sodor by a bridge to Vickerstown or, as it is known in the books, Vicarstown.^[7]