Editing Carlisle (section)

===Rail===
[[File:Carlisle railway station - Cumbria - England - 2005-06-25.jpg|thumb|[[Carlisle railway station]]]]
Carlisle became a major [[railway]] centre with, at one time, seven different companies using [[Carlisle railway station|Carlisle Citadel railway station]]. Prior to the building of the Citadel railway station, Carlisle had several railway stations, including [[Carlisle London Road railway station|London Road railway station]]. Carlisle also used to have the largest railway marshaling yard in Europe, at [[Carlisle Kingmoor Marshalling Yard|Kingmoor]], which, although reduced in size, is still operational and used by railfreight companies such as [[Colas Rail]], [[DB Cargo UK]], [[Freightliner Group|Freightliner]] and occasionally [[Direct Rail Services]].

Today, Carlisle railway station is a principal station on the [[West Coast Main Line]]. Other lines branch off to [[Newcastle railway station|Newcastle]], along the [[Tyne Valley line]]; [[Leeds railway station|Leeds]], along the [[Settle and Carlisle line]]; [[Glasgow Central railway station|Glasgow Central]], via [[Dumfries railway station|Dumfries]] along the [[Glasgow South Western Line]] which connects [[Ayr railway station|Ayr]] and [[Stranraer railway station|Stranraer]] for the [[Stena Line]] ferry to [[Port of Belfast]] or [[P&O Ferries]] to [[Larne Harbour railway station|Larne Harbour]]; and west Cumbria along the [[Cumbrian Coast line]] to [[Whitehaven railway station|Whitehaven]], [[Barrow-in-Furness railway station|Barrow-in-Furness]] and [[Lancaster railway station|Lancaster]]. Services are operated by [[ScotRail]], [[Avanti West Coast]], [[Northern (train operating company)|Northern]] and [[TransPennine Express]]. [[Carlisle Kingmoor TMD|Kingmoor Traction Maintenance Depot]] is a major facility north of Carlisle, operated by [[Direct Rail Services]].