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Eden Valley Railway
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The Eden Valley Railway is located near Appleby in Cumbria. Services resumed in 2006 on part of the 6 mile standard gauge route from Appleby East to Warcop.
The original Eden Valley branch of the North Eastern Railway was opened in 1865 and ran from Clifton near Penrith on the West Coast Main Line to Kirkby Stephen where it joined with the South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway also run by the NER. The line closed to passenger traffic in 1962 and by the 1970s all that was left was the 6 mile track between the Settle-Carlisle line at Appleby to Warcop used infequently by the Army.
In 1995 The Eden Valley Railway Society was formed with the aim of restoring the line and reintroducing a train service. Passenger trains resumed running from Warcop in 2006.
Stations on the route of the orignal Eden Valley branch line were:
Below is a list of the rolling stock currently in use by the Eden Valley Railway Preservation Society:
- Diesel Multiple Units
- BR Class 205 unit 205009
- Electrical Multiple Units
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