Booking Office Cottage

Would you like to enjoy your breakfast and watch trains go by just a few feet away from the window, or enjoy the sunrise over the fells?

Well now you can, at the carefully restored station at Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria on the world famous Settle & Carlisle line.  Built in 1875, the station was brought back to its former glory in 2005 by the S&C Railway Trust.  Kirkby Stephen is a working mainline station with a regular year round passenger service.    

Booking Office Cottage forms part of the station at the south end and includes a living room which was originally the stationmaster’s office.  It sleeps up to 4 people.  The living room boasts giant picture windows on both sides.  On the platform side you can watch steam-hauled excursion trains or diesel-hauled 2,000-tonne coal trains blasting uphill to Ais Gill summit, or look the other way to see glorious views of the fells and Nine Standards Rigg.