"Little" North Western Railway

North Western Railway
Heysham Port
Morecambe Harbour
Morecambe Promenade
Morecambe (Northumberland Street
Morecambe
Middleton Road Bridge Halt
 
Scale Hall
Lancaster Castle
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Lancaster Green Ayre
Halton
River Lune
Caton
Claughton
Hornby
Wray
Wennington
Low Bentham
Bentham High
Ingleton
(MR)
Clapham Junction
Clapham
Giggleswick
Settle Junction
Long Preston
Hellifield
Hellifield
(
original
location
)
Bell Busk
Gargrave
Skipton
Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway
to Colne │ to Bradford
 

The North Western Railway (NWR) was an early British railway company in the north-west of England. It was commonly known as the "Little" North Western Railway, to distinguish it from the larger London and North Western Railway (LNWR).

The NWR was first leased, and later taken over, by the Midland Railway (MR). The MR used part of the line for its London to Scotland Settle and Carlisle main line.

The NWR main line, which ran from Skipton in the West Riding of Yorkshire to Morecambe on the Lancashire coast, gave the MR access to the west coast in an area dominated by the rival LNWR.

Part of the line, between Lancaster and Morecambe, was used in the early twentieth century for pioneering overhead electrification.

Two-thirds of the line, in North Yorkshire, is still in use today, mainly for local services. Of the dismantled Lancashire section, two-thirds has been reused as a combined cyclepath and footpath.