Rail Line Closure Lancaster to Barrow: 3rd to 5th December 2024
There will be no trains between Lancaster and Barrow-In-Furness next week between Tuesday, 3rd and Thursday, 5th December inclusive while essential repairs are carried out in Ulverston.
Network Rail engineers have been working around the clock this week to repair damage to caused by flooding during Storm Bert which came through our region last weekend (23th – 24th November) bringing strong winds, snow, and extreme rainfall to Cumbria. With a rise in temperature on Saturday morning, the snow melted and overwhelmed a watercourse which broke its bank and damaged the earth of the nearby railway cutting. The earth from the cutting collapsed onto the tracks, and about 300 tonnes of spoil had to be removed from the railway.
Engineers reopened the line on Tuesday morning, and began work to carry out a permanent fix to the site. In recent days, the team have built an 130 metre long “water slide” to divert the watercourse’s journey around the cutting. With the water flowing nicely through its new channel, work to repair the cutting can now begin.
The revised timetable is on the Northern website – the train services have been temporarily replaced to show as replacement buses.