Kirkandrews railway station

Kirkandrews
The former station in 2002
Location
Place	Kirkandrews-on-Eden
Area	City of Carlisle
Coordinates	54°55′00″N 3°00′44″W / 54.9166°N 3.0121°WCoordinates: 54°55′00″N 3°00′44″W / 54.9166°N 3.0121°W
Grid reference	NY352584
Operations
Original company	Port Carlisle Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	1
History
1854	Opened
1964	Closed
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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

Kirkandrews railway station was a railway station near Kirkandrews-on-Eden, Cumbria on the Port Carlisle Railway branch and later the Silloth branch.^[1] The station served the village and the rural district. Kirkandrews closed on 7 September 1964;^[2] the station building survives as a private dwelling. The line to Silloth closed on 7 September 1964 as part of the Beeching cuts.

History

In 1819 a port was constructed at Port Carlisle and in 1821, the Carlisle Navigation Canal.^[3] was built to take goods to Carlisle.^[3] The canal was closed in 1853^[3] and much of it was infilled by the Port Carlisle Railway Company who constructed a railway that started passenger services in 1854, discontinuing them two years later when the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company's (C&SBRDC) new railway to Silloth opened, utilising the Port Carlisle Branch as far as Drumburgh.^[4]

The North British Railway leased the line from 1862, it was absorbed by them in 1880, and then taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.^[4]

Infrastructure

The station sat close to the village in the cut of the old canal; it had a single platform, and a shelter. The branch ran close to the course of Hadrian's Wall. A substantial station building was present. A large seed warehouse was located at the station. In common with other stations on the line, it had its name picked out in sea shells on a raised area opposite the station building.^[5]

References

Notes

1. Solway Plain - Past and Present Retrieved : 2012-08-21
2. Cumbria Railways Retrieved : 2012-08-21
3. Ramshaw, Page 1
4. Cumbria Railway Retrieved : 2012-08-21
5. White

Sources

• Ramshaw, David (1997). The Carlisle Navigation Railway. Carlisle : P3 Publications. ISBN 0-9522098-5-3.
• White, Stephen (1984). Solway Steam. The Story of the Silloth and Port Carlisle Railways. 1854-1964. Carlisle : Carel Press. ISBN 0-9509096-1-0.

External links

• Kirkandrews station
• Kirkandrews station
• Kirkandrews station

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Carlisle Station open, line closed		North British Railway Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway		Burgh-by-Sands Line and station closed

External links

• Cumbria Gazetteer