Sleightholme railway station

Sleightholme
Location
Place	1 mile SW of Newton Arlosh
Area	Allerdale
Coordinates	54°52′16″N 3°15′21″W / 54.8712°N 3.2557°WCoordinates: 54°52′16″N 3°15′21″W / 54.8712°N 3.2557°W
Grid reference	NY195536
Operations
Original company	Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company
Platforms	1
History
September 1856	First appeared in Bradshaw, Saturdays Only
June 1857	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

Sleightholme was an early, short lived railway station near Newton Arlosh, Cumbria on the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company's branch from Carlisle to Silloth

The station served the small hamlet of Newton Arlosh and its rural surrounds, but was named after a farm which was nearer than the village.

Its timetable entries show trains calling on Saturdays Only. It only appeared in public timetables from September 1856 to June 1857.

By 1866 no trace of the station could be seen on OS maps,^[2]. It is possible that this was a "use it or lose it" stopping place where no platforms were built.

The line through the station site closed on 7 September 1964.^[3]

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. 355.
2. Sleightholme bridge in 1866, via National Library of Scotland
3. 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
Kirkbride Line and station closed		North British Railway Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway		Abbey Junction Silloth Platform
Whitrigg Line and station closed		Caledonian Railway Solway Junction Railway		Abbey Junction Bromfield Platform