Disused Stations: Penruddock Station

Looking east at Penruddock station in February 1972. Trains in both directions now use the former up platform (left). The station building and signal box remain in place although the booking office has been out of use since July 1968 and the box since December 1967. The siding which served horse-box loading bank (right) has been removed.

Photo by John Mann

The former up platform at Penruddock station, looking west in February 1972. The architecture of the station building is seen clearly in this view; the booking office (closed in July 1968) occupied the forward-projecting near end of the building. The half-hipped roof will be noted. The electric lamp on its fragile standard has provided the only source of light on the platform since the removal of the oil lanterns in the late 1960s.
Photo by John Mann

The disused signal box beyond the east end of the up platform at Penruddock is seen in February 1972. The half-hipped roof complements that of the station building, beyond the left edge of the photo.
Photo by John Mann

The disused down platform at Penruddock station looking west in February 1972. The BR(LM) running-in nameboard is in the foreground mounted between concrete stanchions as was common LM practice..Photo by John Mann

Looking east at Penruddock signal box in February 1972. Two sidings in the goods yard run behind the box. A grounded wagon is seen in the yard.
Photo by John Mann

Penruddock station looking west on 12 April 1977 a little over five years after closure. The single track has been removed but the ballast remains in place. The signal box windows have been smashed and the nameplate has gone. Beyond is the former up (later bi-directional) platform and station building. The signal box was built in 1896 and care has been taken to make its half-hipped roof complement that of the station building, over 30 years its senior; however the masonry is brick whilst that of the station building is stone.
Photo by Alan Young

Penruddock station is seen in 1979, looking west. The contrast between the stone-built structure of the 1860s station building and the red-brick extensions will be noted.

Photo from Mike Hussey by J Simmons

The derelict station building at Penruddock, looking north-east in 1996. At some date (most likely in the 1930s) the booking hall section of the original stone building of 1864-65 has been reconstructed in brick, its windows contrasting with the earlier ones.
Photo from Cumbria Railways by J Simmons

Looking west at Penruddock station in 1996. The derelict station building is soon to be demolished. This colour photo shows clearly that the section of building fronting the booking hall was reconstructed in brick. A modern building has appeared on the site of the platform immediately beyond
the station building.
Photo from Cumbria Railways by J Simmons

Penruddock station entrance and forecourt in 1996, shortly before the building was demolished. It is not known when the extensions in brick were added.
Photo from Cumbria Railways by J Simmons

The horse-box loading dock at Penruddock station on 22 April 2009.
Photo by Roy Lambeth

Part of one of the platforms at Penruddock station on 23 January 2010.
Photo by Alan Young

[Source: Alan Young]

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