Black Dyke Halt railway station

Black Dyke Halt
Black Dyke Halt
Location
Place	Blackdyke
Area	Allerdale
Coordinates	54°51′20″N 3°20′27″W / 54.8556°N 3.3408°WCoordinates: 54°51′20″N 3°20′27″W / 54.8556°N 3.3408°W
Grid reference	NY139520
Operations
Original company	Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	1
History
22 August 1856	Opened
7 September 1964	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 Docks and Pier Silloth Causewayhead Blackdyke Halt Abbey Town Solway Junction Railway southbound Abbey Junction Sleightholme Solway Junction Railway northbound Kirkbride New Dykes Brow Port Carlisle Glasson Drumburgh Burgh-by-Sands Kirkandrews Waverley Line northbound Port Carlisle Junction Carlisle Canal West Coast Main Line northbound Carlisle Citadel West Coast Main Line southbound

Black Dyke Halt or Blackdyke was a railway station near Blackdyke, Cumbria on the Silloth branch, serving the small hamlet of Black Dyke and the rural district. The station closed on 7 September 1964;.^[1] The line to Silloth closed on 7 September 1964 as part of the Beeching cuts.

History

The North British Railway leased the line from 1862, it was absorbed by them in 1880, and then taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.^[2] The halt then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The platform has been demolished.

Infrastructure

The halt sat close to the hamlet and had just a single wood fronted platform, without a platform shelter. Light was provided by two lamps. Level crossing gates were located at the platform end and a passenger shelter or crossing keepers shelter was located here. The stop lay about two miles away from Silloth and three from Abbey Town railway station by train. It became a request stop in the 1950s.

References

Notes

1. Cumbria Railways Retrieved : 2012-08-21
2. Cumbria Railway Retrieved : 2012-08-21

Sources

• Ramshaw, David (1997). The Carlisle Navigation Railway. Carlisle : P3 Publications. ISBN 0-9522098-5-3.
• White, Stephen (1984). Solway Steam. The Story of the Silloth and Port Carlisle Railways. 1854-1964. Carlisle : Carel Press. ISBN 0-9509096-1-0.

External links

• Black Dyke Halt, via Brian's Railway Years
• Black Dyke Halt, via John Charters
• The line with period photographs, via Holme St Cuthbert History Group
• Cumbria Gazetteer
• The station on a navigable Edwardian OS map, via National Library of Scotland

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Abbey Town Line and station closed		North British Railway Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway		Causewayhead Line and station closed