Abbey Town railway station

Abbey Town
Location of the former station (1991)
Location
Place	Abbey Town
Area	Allerdale
Coordinates	54°50′45″N 3°12′12″W / 54.8459°N 3.2032°WCoordinates: 54°50′45″N 3°12′12″W / 54.8459°N 3.2032°W
Grid reference	NY174508
Operations
Original company	Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	1
History
22 August 1856	Station opened as Abbey
August 1889	Renamed Abbey Town
7 September 1964	Station closed
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Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
Locale Cumbria Dates of operation 1854 – 1964 Predecessor Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Company Successor London and North Eastern Railway Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in)
Legend
Silloth Battery Extension Silloth Convalescent Home Silloth Dock Silloth Causewayhead Blackdyke Halt Abbey Town Solway Junction Railway Abbey Junction Sleightholme Solway Junction Railway Kirkbride New Dykes Brow Port Carlisle Glasson Drumburgh Burgh-by-Sands Kirkandrews Waverley Line West Coast Main Line northbound Carlisle West Coast Main Line southbound

Abbey Town railway station was on the branch line off the Solway Junction Railway in the English county of Cumberland (later Cumbria). The first station after Abbey Junction on the branch to Silloth on the Solway Firth, it served the village of Abbey Town. The station closed with the line to Silloth in 1964.

History

Opened as Abbey by the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway in 1856, then renamed Abbey Town by the North British Railway in 1889, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station closed on 7 September 1964.

References

• R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1
• A. Jowett, (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0

External links

• Pictures of the station, via Cumbrian Railways Association
• Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway, via Cumbrian Railways Association
• The area's railways, via Holme St Cuthbert History Group
• Abbey Town station on navigable 1956 O. S. map, via npe Maps
• The station on an Edwardian OS map, via National Library of Scotland

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Abbey Junction Line and station closed		North British Railway Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway		Black Dyke Halt Line and station closed