In 1881 James Yarker (1835-1905) was Station Master here. He and his wife Jane Harrison lived and worked here with 6 of their 9 children and a grandson Herbert. Herbert was the illegitimate child of their daughter Annie, who worked as a domestic servant. She went on to marry the father Duncan Hogg, a groom and coachman, and they had 6 children together.

The house is no longer a station but a private house right on the trackside.

James Yarker and Jane Harrison lived here between 1865 and 1869, when James was working on the railways as a breaksman. 2 of their 9 children, Sarah and William, were born here. They moved away as James became a station master at various locations, before retiring here after 1881. They are both buried in Upperby Cemetery (see photos below).

Their son John and his wife Agnes Townson were married here in 1890. They lived in Carlisle until their deaths.

John Yarker (1770-1834) and Mary Crane lived in Penrith with their 9 children.

Their son James married twice in 1830; firstly to Mary Little (who presumably died soon after giving birth to a son John) then to her sister Elizabeth. James and Elizabeth were married in St Andrew's Church (see photos below). Their son James was christened in this church, as, probably, were the rest of their 7 children.

James the younger married Jane Harrison in 1857, perhaps in the same church. They lived in Netherend Cottage, which does not exist anymore. Here they had the first 4 of their 9 children. James worked on the railways before becoming a station master and moving the family first to Carlisle, then to Ingleton and then to Southwaite Station (see photos below). He and Jane retired to Carlisle and are buried there (see photos below).

In 1762, John Yarker married Margaret Bradley here. They had 8 children. This is the earliest mention of a Cumberland Yarker in this branch of the family.

In 1841, in the village of Threlkeld, at the foot of Blencathra in the Lake District, William Harrison was Publican at the White Horse Inn. He married (or started a family with) local girl Mary Fearon when she was only 15. Both their surnames are carried down through the Yarker family tree. Mary's father Joshua Fearon (born: abt.1790) was the owner of Gate Gill Farm. Their daughter Jane married James Yarker in 1857 in Penrith. Both Jane and James are buried in the same plot in Upperby Cemetery in Carlisle; Joshua Fearon was revered enough to be mentioned on their gravestone (see photos below).