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Penrith North Lakes
Location
Place	Penrith
Local authority	Eden District Council
Operations
Station code	PNR
Managed by	Virgin Trains
Platforms in use	2
Annual entry/exit	0.111 million *
History
Key dates	Opened <unknown>
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* based on sales of tickets in 2002/03 financial year which end or originate at Penrith North Lakes. Disclaimer (PDF)

Penrith railway station is located on the West Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom. It serves the town of Penrith, Cumbria and is less than one mile from its centre. National Express coaches leave from the station's car park and there are bus links to Keswick, Workington. Appleby-in-Westmorland and Ullswater from here too.

Although the station is now relatively quiet at one time this was the terminus for the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway and the North Eastern Railway's Eden Valley branch which joined with the Stainmore line at Kirkby Stephen providing connections to the East Coast Main Line at Darlington. There was also in the mid-nineteenth century a plan to connect Penrith by rail to the lead mines at Caldbeck and eventually joining up with the Cumbrian Coast Line near Wigton.

Up until August 2006 the station was probably unique in that although being a manned main line station it did not have electronic departure boards or TV screens depicting departures/arrivals but only a handwritten departure board in the waiting room/ticket office. It was also the last station in the UK where mail was collected by a moving train.

The station is operated by Virgin Trains.

Virgin renamed the station Penrith North Lakes soon after taking over the running of it at one time in the early and mid 20th century the station had been known as Penrith for Ullswater.

West Coast Main Line

Principal stations (from south to north) London Euston Watford Junction Milton Keynes Central Rugby (for Birmingham Loop) Nuneaton Tamworth Lichfield Trent Valley Stafford Crewe then Manchester Piccadilly or Liverpool Lime Street Warrington Bank Quay Wigan North Western Preston Lancaster Oxenholme Lake District Penrith North Lakes Carlisle Lockerbie Carstairs Junction then Motherwell and Glasgow Central or Haymarketand Edinburgh Waverley (for East Coast Main Line)

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Oxenholme Lake District		Virgin Trains West Coast Main Line		Carlisle

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Terminus		Eden Valley Railway		Clifton (Moor)
Blencow		Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway		Terminus