Causewayhead railway station

Causewayhead
Location
Place	Causewayhead
Area	Allerdale
Coordinates	54°51′46″N 3°21′57″W / 54.8629°N 3.3657°WCoordinates: 54°51′46″N 3°21′57″W / 54.8629°N 3.3657°W
Grid reference	NY124528
Operations
Original company	Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company
Platforms	1
History
November 1856	In Bradshaw as "Causey Head"
1857	Amended in Bradshaw to "Causewayhead"
April 1859	Last appeared in Bradshaw[1]
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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

Causewayhead or, originally, Causey Head, was an early, short lived railway station near Causewayhead, Cumbria on the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company's branch from Carlisle to Silloth

The station served the small hamlet of Causewayhead and its rural surrounds.

Its timetable entries show trains calling on Saturdays Only. It only appeared in public timetables from November 1856 to April 1859.

By 1866 no trace of a station could be seen on OS maps,^[2] though a building - almost certainly the crossing keeper's cottage - is clear. It is possible that this was a "use it or lose it" stopping place where no platforms were built.

The level crossing required the services of a Crossing Keeper until the line closed in 1964.^[3]

The line through the crossing closed on 7 September 1964.^[4]

History

The North British Railway (NBR) leased the line from the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company in 1862, and absorbed them in 1880, The NBR, in turn, was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923, passing to British Railways in 1948.

References

1. Quick 2009, p. 118.
2. Causewayhead crossing in 1866, via National Library of Scotland
3. Causewayhead crossing after the Second World war, via Holme St Cuthbert History Group
4. Cumbria Railways Retrieved : 2012-08-21

Sources

• Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.

External links

• The line with period photographs, via Holme St Cuthbert History Group
• Cumbria Gazetteer

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Blackdyke Halt Line and station closed		Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway		Silloth Line and station closed
				Silloth Convalescent Home Line and station closed
				Silloth Battery Extension Line and station closed