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Oxenholme Lake District
Location
Place	Oxenholme
Local authority	South Lakeland
Operations
Station code	OXN
Managed by	Virgin Trains
Platforms in use	3
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.260 million
2005/06 *	0.267 million
2006/07 *	0.310 million
History
Key dates	Opened <unknown> (<unknown>)
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Oxenholme Lake District from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Oxenholme Lake District railway station is a railway station in Oxenholme, near Kendal in Cumbria. The station is situated on the West Coast Main Line and is also the start of the Windermere Branch Line to Windermere. The station serves as a main line connection point for Kendal, and is managed by Virgin Trains.¹

Oxenholme has the distinction of being the only village station currently served by express trains on the West Coast Main Line, all the other stations on this route being either towns or cities.

Notable incidents

On February 10, 1965 fugitive John Middleton shot two policeman while hiding in the waiting room. Carlisle policemen George Russell and Alex Archibald were shot with Russell dying in hospital a few hours later.²

On May 27, 2006 the station was the scene of a murder when a 19 year old man was stabbed aboard a Glasgow-Paignton train as it was coming into the station. A 22 year old man was subsequently jailed for 21 years for the murder in November 2006.³

The Grayrigg rail crash happened on 23 February 2007 when a Virgin Pendolino train derailed after it had just left Oxenholme Lake District railway station. The crash left 1 person dead, and 22 others injured.⁴

Services

Most Virgin Trains services from London & Birmingham to Carlisle & Glasgow/Edinburgh call here to provide connections with the Windermere branch. There is normally a train at least every other hour to London and every hour to Birmingham New St and to Carlisle (most of these continuing to either Edinburgh or Glasgow). First TransPennine Express services between Manchester Airport and Windermere/Glasgow/Edinburgh also serve the station, although most Windermere services now start/terminate here rather than running through to Preston and Manchester.

References

See also

• Oxenholme
• First TransPennine Express
• Virgin trains
• West Coast Main Line

External links

• Train times and station information for Oxenholme Lake District railway station from National Rail
• Buses from the station
• Buses to the station

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Coordinates: 54°18′18″N 2°43′19″W / 54.305, -2.722