Dearham Bridge railway station

Dearham Bridge railway station

Site of the station in 1991
Location
Place Dearham
Area Allerdale
Coordinates 54°43′18″N 3°26′42″W / 54.721704°N 3.444958°W / 54.721704; -3.444958Coordinates: 54°43′18″N 3°26′42″W / 54.721704°N 3.444958°W / 54.721704; -3.444958
Grid reference NY07043727
Operations
Original company Maryport & Carlisle Railway
Post-grouping London Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms 2 (staggered)
History
1842 Opened
1867 Renamed Dearham Bridge
5 June 1950 Station closed to passengers[1][2]
12 October 1951 Station closed completely[3]
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Dearham Bridge was a railway station on the Maryport and Carlisle Railway (M&CR) serving the village and rural district of Dearham in Cumbria, England. The station was opened by the M&CR in 1842 as Dearham, but was renamed Dearham Bridge in 1867 when the M&CR opened a station in the village of Dearham, to which it gave that name. Dearham Bridge station lay in the Parish of Crosscanonby.[4]

History

Dearham Bridge station was opened by the Maryport & Carlisle Railway (M&CR) in 1840. 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 route to be closed (in 1950) by the British Transport Commission in the years immediately after the nationalisation of the UK railway network. No trace of the station now remains, but the main Carlisle-Maryport line (completed in 1845) remains open and forms part of the Cumbrian Coast Line between Carlisle and Barrow in Furness. Branch lines here served Lowther Pit, Lonsdale Pit, Nelson Pit on Broughton Moor, Bertha Pit, etc.[4]

In the Nineteenth Century coal was brought down a tramway from pits on Broughton Moor and transferred to M&CR trains at the station.[5]

The station is known for a haunting related to a man who threw his new-born child under a train here, killing the infant. Now, as a train is about to enter the tunnel, the child can occasionally be heard screaming before being hit. The father was hanged for the crime.[6]

The Birkby Fire Brick Works and Colliery lay nearby, worked by Messrs. Steele and Beveridge, of Maryport; it gave employment to about forty people.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Robinson 2002, p. 43.
  2. ↑ Quick 2009, p. 146.
  3. ↑ Robinson 1995, p. 184.
  4. 1 2 Old Cumbria Gazetteer Retrieved : 2012-09-03
  5. ↑ Robinson 1985, p. 59.
  6. ↑ Paranormal Database Retrieved : 2012-09-03
  7. ↑ Cross Canonby Retrieved : 2012-09-03

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Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Bullgill
Station closed, line open		   Maryport & Carlisle Railway
Maryport and Carlisle Railway		   Maryport
Station open, line open
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