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Bare Lane railway station serves the village of Bare, which is a suburb of Morecambe in Lancashire, England. It is located on the Morecambe Branch Line from Lancaster to Heysham Port and was opened by the London and North Western Railway in 1864. A level crossing with the public highway known as Bare Lane exists immediately to the west of the station, which until recently was controlled by the adjacent Bare Lane signal box, a fringe cabin to the Preston PSB Area. This box was closed on 8 December 2012,〔(Bare Lane signal box pictured on 7 December 2012, shortly before closure ) www.railbrit.co.uk; retrieved 2012-12-22〕 when the signalling equipment was renewed by Network Rail and control of the crossing switched to CCTV and transferred to Preston power box.〔(NR Bare Lane box closure proposals & TOC responses ) NR website; Retrieved 2011-05-26〕 The old station building on the platform is now a private dwelling. It was auctioned to the public, and was featured on the BBC programme ''Homes Under the Hammer'', a show about buildings which are auctioned to the public and redeveloped. ==Layout== Although the station has two side platforms, the track layout through it is not the conventional double track used on most main & secondary routes, but two independent bi-directional single lines. Platform 1 serves the Up & Down Morecambe line (which is in effect a long siding all the way to the terminus), whilst platform 2 handles trains on what is now the Up & Down Heysham line. The latter is connected to the now-single track branch down to at Holt Bank Junction (just outside Morecambe station), with the junction points operated from a ground frame worked by the train crew. The two lines converge east of the station, but then immediately split into the single line curves toward and towards Lancaster; the former sees only limited use, whereas the latter was double track until 1988 and is used by the vast majority of trains on the route. This layout dates from the closure of the former terminus at and its associated signal box in February 1994, with Bare Lane signal box taking over control of all signalling on the line thereafter (other than that controlling the junctions with the main line at Hest Bank). As mentioned above however, it was closed in December 2012. The structure remained intact for another year and had been used for several months by Northern Rail staff as a manned help point for travellers due to the absence of digital passenger information screens at the station.〔(Photo of interior of decommissioned signal box in July 2013 ) ''Railscot''; Retrieved 2013-12-05〕 It was eventually demolished in January 2014 after the PIS screens were installed and finally brought into use.〔(Bare Lane station on 22 January 2014 after demolition of the signal box )''Railscot''; Retrieved 2014-01-23〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bare Lane railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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