K Carlisle The Legacy of the The Settle~Carlisle Railway Conservation Area Station Building The buildings of the Settle~Carlisle Railway are of national significance and have been Petteril Bridge Jn Settle~Carlisle Railway Operational StationKey given statutory protection through designation as a Conservation Area. Scotby Waiting Shelter BUILDINGSBUILDINGS Cumwhinton CARLISLE Station Building This publication is one of a series intended to provide a better understanding of the Station Masters' House Cotehill EDEN Operational Station special character of these buildings and to assist those entrusted with their care in Railway Workers' Cottages of the Waiting Shelter appropriate conservation and repairs. ike no Non Standard Buildings Lother, the Armathwaite Station Masters'Settle~Carlisle House Railway The series has been prepared by the North East Civic Trust for English Heritage, SETTLE~CARLISLESETTLE~CARLISLE Midland Railway Railway Workers'Hawes JointCottages (dismantled) The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, Craven District Council, strove to set its Non StandardOther Main-line Buildings Railways Eden District Council and Carlisle City Council. The series consists of: signature on the Lazonby Settle~CarlislePlanning Railway Authority 1. Buildings of the Settle~Carlisle Railway: An Introductory Guide to their Conservation RAILWAY structures it built. Little Salkeld Hawes Joint (dismantled)not to scale 2. Station Buildings of the Settle~Carlisle Railway Echoes of its grand 3. Station Masters’ Houses of the Settle~Carlisle Railway Langwathby Other Main-line Railways creations in Derby and at 4. Railway Workers’ Cottages of the Settle~Carlisle Railway Planning Authority St. Pancras in London Culgaith Newbiggin Other Publications resonate along the Settle~ Long Marton not to scale Carlisle - the distinctive ‘Derby Appleby Stations & Structures of the Settle & Carlisle Railway, V R Anderson and G K Fox gothic’ architecture was a form of Ormside Rails In The Fells, D Jenkinson corporate identity, tempered only by Advice On Conservation & Other Planning Matters local variations in stone and brick. Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority: Tel (01969) 650 456 Crosby Garrett The hand of the Company Architect, J H Craven District Council: Tel (01756) 700 600 Sanders, is easily recognisable in the design of Kirkby Stephen Eden District Council: Tel (01768) 864 671 Carlisle City Council: Tel (01228) 23411 station buildings and houses. Their collective EDEN function, common vintage and consistent ‘house Useful Contacts DALES style’ have preserved their identity for over a century. Ais Gill YORKSHIRE The Settle~Carlisle Railway Development Company: Tel (01729) 822 007 Having survived railway mergers and the Beeching cuts, Moorcock The Friends of the Settle~Carlisle Railway: 16 Pickard Court, Leeds, LS15 9AY the Settle~Carlisle is now unique among main-lines in Regional Railways North East Enquiry Bureau: Tel (0113) 244 8133 having such a large proportion of its original structures Garsdale North East Civic Trust: Tel (0191) 232 9279 intact. Hawes Foremost of these are the stations. Small, medium and large Credits versions were created to meet projected demand at each Dent Front Cover Photo: D F Tee Collection site, with Kirkby Stephen being given a prestigious large Back Cover Photo: Martin Welch Collection station even though such capacity was not actually Line Drawing: Stations and Structures of the Settle & Carlisle Railway, Anderson and Fox December 1996 necessary. All were calculated to yield a commercial return. Embellished with decorative features, their Ribblehead Salt Lake gabled composition was intended to impress both on the Selside open fell and in town. The standard station group was Horton in YORKSHIREDALES completed by a waiting shelter on the platform opposite, Ribblesdale VEN a cattle dock with pens, a Station Master’s house and some- CRA times a signal box, goods shed, engine shed or water tower. An Introductory Guide Perhaps the least known of the Settle~Carlisle buildings are its Settle cottages. Nearly always terraced in groups of four or six, two to their Conservation basic types were built with many variations of detail. Settle Jn It is a testimony to Midland Railway acumen that this unique Long Preston mix of operational and domestic architecture should continue to Hellifield perform as a serviceable legacy of character and distinction. 1 The Last Great Main-line Railway in Britain ew lines have so captured the popular Not only do so many features of this legacy Fimagination as the Settle~Carlisle. It survive, but their relationships with each was the last great main-line railway built in other and their setting represents a group Britain, started by the Midland Railway value now acknowledged by the creation of Company in 1869 and finished some a Conservation Area, encompassing seven years later, forging a strategic the line and all its associated infra- link between London, the Midlands structure, to preserve and enhance and Scotland, through a setting of its character and appearance. outstanding natural beauty. Conservation Areas formally Settle~Carlisle is testimony to recognise that the nature of a great age of endeavour. Its our surroundings is often dic- engineering achievements tated by such inter-relation- form a dramatic sequence of ships. Spaces and landscape tunnels, cuttings, viaducts and can contribute to character bridges, further enlivened by striking just as much as the buildings themselves. buildings and other trackside structures. Settle~Carlisle is a unique conservation A vision planned in its entirety, it required task as it remains an operational railway the construction of all accommodation and whilst many of its buildings are in private services necessary for a main-line. This hands. Conservation achievements to date unusually comprehensive development has include the repair of Ribblehead viaduct, Maintenance and Repair in Historic Buildings survived largely intact and still portrays a the conversion of Little Salkeld station to a f the unique legacy of the Settle~Carlisle Illustrated here are examples of the building remarkably complete picture of resolute private house and the repair of waiting Iis derived from its place in railway history, types and details which characterise the Victorian enterprise and social welfare. shelters at Dent and Horton-in-Ribblesdale. then its future survival will depend upon Settle~Carlisle. Various standard designs National Main-line, Local Lifeline preserving its period authenticity. The were produced by Midland Railway so it is buildings played an important rôle in the important in their conservation that he line was conceived amidst vigorous navvies were established on the moors Midland story and their loss through authoritative guidance is sought before Tcompetition and rivalry, solely as a during construction and some of this type demolition or alteration devalues their undertaking repairs or replacement. The through route for profitable Scottish goods of accommodation, though designed to be contribution like a missing page from a book. leaflets in this series describe how adopting traffic. The Midland had not considered temporary, still survives such as the navvy Stations, Station Masters’ houses and the the right approach and specifications are local requirements when construction of barracks beside Dent station. The Midland railway workers’ cottages all have their fundamental to ensuring the buildings of the the line commenced, and it was not until itself became an important employer distinctive features: windows, ridge tiles, Settle~Carlisle remain something to be 1872 that sites for stations were planned. building over one hundred and fifty houses bargeboards, colour schemes, etc. proud of. Some were still being built when the line for company employees, and developing opened. Nevertheless, the facilities for each the line as a vital aid to local agriculture station were well conceived, and with few and the mineral industry. The exceptions, their use matched anticipated Settle~Carlisle became part of everyday life demand. Consequently, few alterations - a busy livestock market was built next to were made over the years, and the Appleby station; Ribblehead station was Settle~Carlisle buildings soon became as used for many years as a venue for church much a hallmark of the line as the viaducts services; there was a library incorporated and tunnels carrying the tracks. into the station at Garsdale and even The communities that the line served were Garsdale’s water tower had a secondary transformed by its arrival. Shanty towns for function as the village hall..