Beckfoot railway station
Beckfoot railway station is a railway station on the 15" gauge Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway in the English county of Cumbria. It is situated in the civil parish of Eskdale and the Lake District National Park, and is within a 1⁄2 mile walk of the eastern terminus of the line, at Dalegarth station.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Eskdale, Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Beckfoot Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dalegarth railway station and Dalegarth Hall.
Dalegarth railway station
Railway station
Photo: Peter Trimming, CC BY 2.0.
Dalegarth railway station is the easterly terminus of the 15-inch gauge Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway in the English county of Cumbria. It has a café and shop for passengers, along with a run-round loop, turntable and siding for trains. Dalegarth railway station is situated 1,900 feet northeast of Beckfoot railway station.
Dalegarth Hall
Building
Photo: David Trochos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dalegarth Hall is a building, which is situated 1,200 feet southeast of Beckfoot railway station.
St Catherine’s Church, Boot
Church
Photo: Tom Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Catherine's Church is in the village of Boot in the English county of Cumbria. It is the Anglican parish church for Eskdale, and is in the deanery of Calder, the archdeaconry of West Cumberland, and the diocese of Carlisle. St Catherine’s Church, Boot is situated 2,600 feet east of Beckfoot railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boot and Eskdale Green.
Boot
Village
Photo: Steve Partridge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boot is a small village in Eskdale on the western side of the English Lake District. It lies within the civil parish of Eskdale, the unitary authority of Cumberland, and the ceremonial county of Cumbria.
Eskdale Green
Eskdale Green is a small village in Cumbria at one end of the Eskdale Valley. The hamlet of Boot has an old corn mill in the heart but wander south away from the mill to find the little old church by the river.
Nether Wasdale
Village
Photo: Peter Eckersley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nether Wasdale is a village in Cumbria, England, located in the valley and civil parish of Wasdale, near the River Irt and just over a mile to the west of the Wastwater lake. Nether Wasdale is situated 3½ miles northwest of Beckfoot railway station.
Beckfoot railway station
- Category: transportation
- Location: Eskdale, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.39261° or 54° 23′ 33″ northLongitude
-3.28242° or 3° 16′ 57″ westElevation
157 feet (48 metres)Operator
Ravenglass & Eskdale RailwayOpen location code
9C6R9PV9+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 318231621OpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationGeoNames ID
7671129Wikidata ID
Q4878703
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to French—“Beckfoot railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Beckfoot”
- French: “Beckfoot”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Beckfoot railway station”. Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.