Cummersdale railway station

Cummersdale railway station
Tornado near the site of Cummersdale Station
Location
Place	Cummersdale
Area	City of Carlisle
Coordinates	54°51′51″N 2°56′40″W / 54.8642°N 2.9445°WCoordinates: 54°51′51″N 2°56′40″W / 54.8642°N 2.9445°W
Grid reference	NY394525
Operations
Original company	Maryport & Carlisle Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
1858	Opened
18 June 1951	Station closed to passengers
1961	Station closed to goods
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
UK Railways portal

Cummersdale was a railway station on the Maryport and Carlisle Railway (M&CR) serving Cummersdale in Cumbria. The station was opened by the M&CR in 1858 and lay in the Parish of Cummersdale near to the village of High Cummersdale.^[1]

History

Cummersdale Viaduct and the Caldew river.

Cummersdale station was opened by the Maryport & Carlisle Railway in 1858.^[2] At grouping in 1923 the M&CR became a part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. It was one of several lightly used intermediate stations on this section of the route to be closed by the British Transport Commission (in 1951) in the years immediately after the nationalisation of the UK rail network. The main Carlisle-Maryport line (completed in 1845) remains open and forms part of the Cumbrian Coast Line between Carlisle and Barrow in Furness.

The station had two through platforms. It lay close to a dye works and overlooked Carlisle racecourse.

George Stephenson was the engineer for the Maryport and Carlisle Railway and his one major engineering structure was the 57 metre long, three span Cummersdale viaduct which spans the River Caldew at a 52° skew two miles south of Carlisle. This viaduct was the most significant structure on the railway which was opened as a single line, the current twin track viaduct structure was a 1910 upgrade. This bridge was rebuilt in 2012.^[3]

References

Notes

1. Old Cumbria Gazetteer Retrieved : 2012-08-28
2. Quick 2009, p. 141.
3. "Cummersdale makeover". The Rail Engineer. 8 February 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.

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.

Further reading

• 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.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• Cummersdale Station