| Sandside station was located on the single track line which linked the Lancaster & Carlisle line at Hincaster with the Furness line at Arnside. It had a chequered career but was at its busiest during the two World Wars, it forming a key part of the route for supplies of coke from the South Durham coalfield to the ieon furnaces of the Furness area of Lancashire. As well as a local passenger service between Grange-over-Sands and Kendal, the line also saw visitations of excursions to the Lake District from various points round the North of England, sometime hauled by locomotives as large as the LMS 6XP Jubilee 4-6-0s.
For the modeller the location has the further attraction of fronting on almost directly to the estuary of the River Kent, separated only by a road, with the land rising sharply behind the railway, with the limestone hillside pierced by a rail-served quarry. The quarry was owned by James Ward (later Northern Quarries Co., Ltd. from 1898, and New Northern Quarries Co., Ltd. from the 1920s), who under the tradename of "Quarrite" supplied tarred macadam for road surfacing over much of northern England. |
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