Middleton-on-Lune railway station Middleton-on-Lune railway station Middleton-on-Lune railway station was located in Westmorland (now Cumbria), serving the hamlet and rural locale of Middleton on the Ingleton Branch Line. It was opened as Middleton in 1861 and renamed Middleton-on-Lune on 19 July 1926, closing in 1931. The Lancaster and Carlisle Railway built the Ingleton Branch Line from the existing Ingleton Station to . By the time the branch was completed in 1861, the L&CR was operated by the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR). After formal closure the line was still on occasions used for weekend excursions and to transport pupils to and from
Touws River (town) to go." And that is the way it did go." In 1875, the engineers of the Cape Government Railways arrived to survey the region and found that, at the exact spot indicated, there was indeed a viable route through the formidable Hex River Mountains, starting from Worcester and descending on the other side, to a spot where the town of Touws River now stands. On 7 November 1877, the Worcester–Matjiesfontein section of the Cape Government Railways' Cape Town–Kimberley main line was opened to traffic. The line included a station, originally named "Montagu Road", where the line bridged the Touws River.