Drigg railway station

Drigg
Drigg railway station in 2004
Location
Place	Holmrook
Local authority	Copeland
Grid reference	SD063988
Operations
Station code	DRI
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	7,108
2005/06	11,013
2006/07	11,724
2007/08	10,051
2008/09	9,034
2009/10	12,874
2010/11	11,570
2011/12	12,078
2012/13	12,592
2013/14	10,970
2014/15	10,466
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Drigg from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Drigg railway station serves the villages of Drigg and Holmrook in Cumbria, England. The railway station is a request stop on the scenic Cumbrian Coast Line 15 miles (24 km) south of Whitehaven. Some through trains to the Furness Line stop here. It is operated by Northern who provide all passenger train services. There is a level crossing over the tracks at the end of one of the platforms.

A short distance from the station heavy secured sidings take special trains carrying nuclear materials to the Low Level Waste Repository where they are buried.

Service

There is now an hourly service to this request stop northbound from Barrow-in-Furness and southbound from Whitehaven and Carlisle for much of the day (with slightly longer gaps in the early morning and late afternoon). There is no service after 19.00 each evening or on Sundays.

External links

• Train times and station information for Drigg railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Seascale		Northern Rail Cumbrian Coast Line Mondays-Saturdays only		Ravenglass

Coordinates: 54°22′37″N 3°26′35″W / 54.377°N 3.443°W