The railway service that connected two important parts of our county together had a long history of reliability and Coniston railway always ensured that people got where they needed to be. Events leading to its creation began in 1849, when it was proposed that a railway would be built linking the copper mines at Coniston with the Furness Railway at Broughton. However, it would not come to pass until 1856 when interest in the line was renewed. The Coniston Railway Act received Royal Assent on August 10, 1857. On October 4 in 1958 the last scheduled train with paying customers travelled along the nine-and-a-half-mile line from Foxfield to Coniston.