Workington Bridge railway station

Workington Bridge
Location
Place	Camerton
Area	Allerdale
Coordinates	54°38′51″N 3°32′25″W / 54.6474°N 3.5402°WCoordinates: 54°38′51″N 3°32′25″W / 54.6474°N 3.5402°W
Grid reference	NY007291
Operations
Original company	Cockermouth & Workington Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2[1][2][3]
History
28 April 1847	Opened
1 January 1951	Closed[4]
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A 1914 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing the complex network which existed in the Workington area

Cockermouth and Workington Railway
Legend
Cumbrian Coast Line Workington Main Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Workington Central Workington Bridge River Derwent (three crossings) Camerton River Derwent (two crossings) Marron Junction Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway River Marron Broughton Cross Brigham Maryport and Carlisle Railway Cockermouth (C&W) later Cockermouth goods station Cockermouth(CK&P) Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway

Workington Bridge railway station was situated next to the River Derwent on the Cockermouth and Workington Railway. It served the northeastern fringe of Workington, Cumbria, England.^[5][6]

History

The station opened on 28 April 1847 and closed completely on 1 January 1951.

Afterlife

By 2015 the station site was obliterated. The bridge which gave the station its name had been rebuilt and had assumed greater importance after it and several neighbours were condemned or destroyed in the 2009 Workington floods.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Camerton Line and station closed		London and North Western Railway Cockermouth & Workington Railway		Workington Main Line and station closed

See also

• Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway

References

1. Marshall 1981, Opposite p.158.
2. Suggitt 2008, p. 78.
3. Webb September 1964, p. 678.
4. Butt 1995, p. 255.
5. Smith & Turner 2012, Map 26.
6. Jowett 2000, Map 36.

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• 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.
• Marshall, John (1981). Forgotten Railways: North West England. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0 7153 8003 6.
• Smith, Paul; Turner, Keith (2012). Railway Atlas Then and Now. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978 0 7110 3695 6.
• Suggitt, Gordon (2008). Lost Railways of Cumbria (Railway Series). Newbury: Countryside Books. ISBN 978-1-84674-107-4.
• Webb, David R. (September 1964). Cooke, B.W.C., ed. "Between the Solway and Sellafield: Part One". The Railway Magazine (London: Tothill Press Limited) 110 (761).

Further reading

• British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas And Gazetteer. Shepperton: Ian Allan Publishing. 1997 [1958]. ISBN 0-7110-0320-3.
• Anderson, Paul (April 2002). Hawkins, Chris, ed. "Dog in the Manger? The Track of the Ironmasters". British Railways Illustrated (Clophill: Irwell Press Ltd) 11 (7).
• Bairstow, Martin (1995). Railways In The Lake District. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-11-2.
• Bowtell, Harold D. (1989). Rails through Lakeland: An Illustrated Journey of the Workington-Cockermouth-Keswick-Penrith Railway 1847-1972. Wyre, Lancashire: Silverling Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-947971-26-2.
• Joy, David (1983). Lake Counties (Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 094653702X.
• McGowan Gradon, W. (2004) [1952]. The Track of the Ironmasters: A History of the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway. Grange-over-Sands: Cumbrian Railways Association. ISBN 0-9540232-2-6.
• Webb, David R. (October 1964). Cooke, B.W.C., ed. "Between the Solway and Sellafield: Part Two". The Railway Magazine (London: Tothill Press Limited) 110 (762).
• Western, Robert (2001). The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway OL113. Usk: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-564-0.

External links

• Map of the line with photos, via RAILSCOT
• The station on an OS map surveyed in 1864, via National Library of Scotland
• The station on overlain OS maps surveyed from 1898, via National Library of Scotland
• The station on a 1948 OS Map, via npe maps
• The railways of Cumbria, via Cumbrian Railways Association
• Photos of Cumbrian railways, via Cumbrian Railways Association
• The railways of Cumbria, via Railways_of_Cumbria
• Cumbrian Industrial History, via Cumbria Industrial History Society
• Local history of the CKPR route, via Cockermouth
• The line's and station's Engineer's Line References, via railwaycodes.org.uk
• A video tour-de-force of the region's closed lines, via cumbriafilmarchive
• West Cumberland Railtour 5 September 1954, via sixbellsjunction