Ffarquhar Road

Ffarquhar Road is a small village and a station on the Arlesdale Railway and formerly the Mid Sodor Railway. It is named after the road that links Ffarquhar to Arlesburgh. A watermill is located nearby.

History
In the heyday of the Mid Sodor Railway, the station had one platform on the south - or village - side of the line. The passenger shelter was solidly built using granite off-cuts from the nearby Marthwaite Quarry.

During the line's years of abandonment between 1947 and 1967, the shelter's roof collapsed, however the main structure stood up well. When being restored for the Arlesdale Railway, the station was given a second platform and the shelter was repaired, providing yet another link to the former Mid Sodor Railway.

A branch line now turns southward from the station to a former mine in the Hackenbeck valley, which provides a plentiful resource of weed-resistant spoil.

Appearances
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The Railway Series

 * Duke the Lost Engine - Sleeping Beauty

Companion Volumes

 * 1987 - The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways

Trivia

 * Its Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway equivalent is Muncaster Mill Station.
 * Although it is most likely a coincidence, there is a real place named "Farquhar Road" in the London Borough of Southwark.