Only one standard gauge branch line survived in the Lake District. It runs from Oxenholme to which terminus?
Oxenholme Lake District railway station Oxenholme Lake District railway station Oxenholme Lake District railway station (often shortened to Oxenholme) is a railway station in Oxenholme, near Kendal, in Cumbria, England. The station is situated on the West Coast Main Line and is also the start of the Windermere Branch Line to Windermere. All platforms are electrified; however, platform 3 on the Windermere branch has limited capacity for longer trains. The station serves as a main line connection point for Kendal and Windermere and is managed by Virgin Trains. The station was constructed as part of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (which is now a section
Oxenholme Lake District railway station instead with Oxenholme becoming a junction station. The branch line would be between Oxenholme and its terminus at (although it actually is in Birthwaite about from the actual lake). It opened in April 1847. The station's popularity with visitors to The Lakes was fictionalised by Arthur Ransome in the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, where it was renamed "Strickland Junction". In Pigeon Post Roger releases a homing pigeon there. On 10 February 1965 fugitive John Middleton, who was hiding in the waiting room, shot and killed Carlisle policeman Alex Archibald at the station, his colleague, George Russell, who