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22 August 2013

Have a Brief Encounter at Carnforth Station

Best known its starring role as as Milford Junction in Brief Encounter - which was filmed at the station and released in 1945 - Carnforth Station was opened in 1846 on what was then the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, and completely rebuilt in 1937 by the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company creating many of the features seen today. Today the station also acts as a heritage centre, including the Refreshment Rooms where Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard met in the film.


Alongside the possibility of having your own Brief Encounter beneath the station's famous clock, there is also an exhibition about the film, some historical artefacts and displays covering the story of Carnforth's role in the First and Second World Wars, changing exhibition at the Bateman Gallery and an all-important gift shop.

For more, see http://www.carnforthstation.co.uk/

^Picture © Stephen McKay used under a Creative Commons license^

3 comments:

  1. I went there once, about 22 years ago, on my way to a residential course at Borwick Hall which is nearby. I only found out about it's role in Brief Encounter much later. Similarly I later found that Borwick Hall featured in a seventies TV show called The Ghosts of Motley hall.

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  2. I am delighted this lovely old building was not destroyed and replaced by something modern and nasty. Yes please to a heritage centre and to refreshment rooms! But let's get rid of the plastic (?) santa and the plastic snow man.

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  3. I am from near Carnforth, the station is now a lovely place, it also has a micro brewery in it and across the tracks is steam town where the Hogwarts express was built.

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