Broughton Cross railway station

Broughton Cross
Location
Place	Broughton Cross
Area	Allerdale
Coordinates	54°39′34″N 3°26′03″W / 54.65946°N 3.43425°WCoordinates: 54°39′34″N 3°26′03″W / 54.65946°N 3.43425°W
Grid reference	NY075303
Operations
Original company	Cockermouth & Workington Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
28 April 1847	Opened
2 March 1942	Closed[1]
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A 1904 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (right) railways in the vicinity of the station

Cockermouth and Workington Railway
Legend
Cumbrian Coast Line Workington Main Junction Railway      Cleator and Workington Workington Central Workington Bridge River Derwent (three crossings) Camerton River Derwent (two crossings) Marron Junction and Egremont RailwayWhitehaven, Cleator River Marron Broughton Cross Brigham Carlisle RailwayMaryport and Cockermouth (C&W) later Cockermouth goods station Cockermouth(CK&P) and Penrith Railway Cockermouth, Keswick

Broughton Cross railway station was situated on the Cockermouth and Workington Railway and served the village of Broughton Cross, Cumbria, England.^[2][3]

History

The station opened on 28 April 1847 and closed on 2 March 1942.

Afterlife

By 2013 the station site was buried under the A66.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Brigham Line and station closed		Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway		Bridgefoot Line and station closed
		London and North Western Railway Cockermouth & Workington Railway		Marron Junction Line and station closed

See also

• Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway

References

1. Butt 1995, p. 46.
2. Smith & Turner 2012, Map 26.
3. Jowett 2000, Map 36.

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
• Smith, Paul; Turner, Keith (2012). Railway Atlas Then and Now. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978 0 7110 3695 6.

Further reading

• British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas And Gazetteer. Shepperton: Ian Allan Publishing. 1997 [1958]. ISBN 0-7110-0320-3.
• Anderson, Paul (April 2002). Hawkins, Chris, ed. "Dog in the Manger? The Track of the Ironmasters". British Railways Illustrated (Clophill: Irwell Press Ltd) 11 (7).
• Bairstow, Martin (1995). Railways In The Lake District. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-11-2.
• Bowtell, Harold D. (1989). Rails through Lakeland: An Illustrated Journey of the Workington-Cockermouth-Keswick-Penrith Railway 1847-1972. Wyre, Lancashire: Silverling Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-947971-26-2.
• Joy, David (1983). Lake Counties (Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 094653702X.
• McGowan Gradon, W. (2004) [1952]. The Track of the Ironmasters: A History of the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway. Grange-over-Sands: Cumbrian Railways Association. ISBN 0-9540232-2-6.
• Marshall, John (1981). Forgotten Railways: North West England. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0 7153 8003 6.
• Suggitt, Gordon (2008). Lost Railways of Cumbria (Railway Series). Newbury: Countryside Books. ISBN 978-1-84674-107-4.
• Western, Robert (2001). The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway OL113. Usk: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-564-0.

External links

• Map of the line with photos, via RAILSCOT
• The station on an OS map surveyed in 1864, via National Library of Scotland
• The station on overlain OS maps surveyed from 1898, via National Library of Scotland
• The closed station on a 1948 OS Map, via npe maps
• The railways of Cumbria, via Cumbrian Railways Association
• Photos of Cumbrian railways, via Cumbrian Railways Association
• The railways of Cumbria, via Railways_of_Cumbria
• Cumbrian Industrial History, via Cumbria Industrial History Society
• Local history of the CKPR route, via Cockermouth
• The line's and station's Engineer's Line References, via railwaycodes.org.uk
• A video tour-de-force of the region's closed lines, via cumbriafilmarchive