Functions and Meetings at Bassenthwaite Lake Station

About

This stunning salon carriage offers the perfect location as a quirky and intimate venue for your family get-together, club meeting, bespoke corporate function or whatever you may have in mind!

‘Bass Lake’ is a truly magical place that incorporates the striking landscapes and stunning natural surrounds of the Lake District with the romanticism of the railway and an era gone by. Combined with high quality catering and staffing to suit you, your event will be a day to remember. 

The carriage comfortably accommodates up to 30 people and is wheelchair and buggy accessible, although some areas may not be suitable for wider chairs.

Food and Drink

Our expert chef can arrange catering to suit your individual needs using a range of high-quality, locally-sourced produce and ingredients and can accommodate dietary requirements and preferences.

We stock a wide selection of carefully chosen beverages to compliment our food offering, many of which are tried and tested favourites of ours! We can also provide hot drinks and a delicious selection of cakes and bakes or for something a little bit special, why not consider our famous Orient Express Afternoon Tea?

A little about the history of Bassenthwaite Lake Station.

In it's heyday between 1865 and 1966, Bassenthwaite Lake Station saw holidaymakers and haulage alike pass between its platforms, but was sadly closed in 1966, when the Beeching cuts put an end to its operation.

Over the years, it fell into a state of total disrepair and the once proud sandstone platforms and stately outbuildings of the station became dilapidated, the track bed buried and hidden by brambles and the signalmen’s cottages collapsed and became ruins.

Brought back from the brink by the proprietors, Simon and Diana Parums in April 2019, when they bought the site and realised the huge potential, over the course of two years restored the station to it's former glory, in keeping with the 1930’s era that inspired the arrival of the train itself.

The replica French SNCF Class 241 steam engine, which is now a permanent fixture on the track is in fact the very train that appears in the 2017 film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ starring Dame Judi Dench and Johnny Depp. Built a little bit wider than a ‘real life’ train in order to fit in camera crews, nowadays the carriage serves as seating for the café with enough room to comfortably accommodate around 32 people.

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