Cleator Moor railway station
Cleator Moor had three passenger stations:
- The original 1857 Cleator Moor station which became a goods station when it was replaced in 1866
- Its 1866 replacement which went on to be known as Cleator Moor East, and
- The rival 1879 station which went on to be known as Cleator Moor West.
This article is about the original Cleator Moor station.
Cleator Moor | |
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General information | |
Location | Copeland |
Coordinates | 54°31′24″N 3°31′13″W / 54.5232°N 3.5203°W |
Platforms | 2 |
History | |
Original company | Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway |
Pre-grouping | LNWR & FR Joint Railway |
Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
Key dates | |
1 July 1857 | Opened[1] |
1866 | Closed to passengers, new station 600 yards west[2] |
1960s | Closed completely |
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The original Cleator Moor railway station was built by the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway. It served the rapidly urbanising town of Cleator Moor, Cumbria, England.[3][4]
History
The line was one of the fruits of the rapid industrialisation of West Cumberland in the second half of the nineteenth century. The station opened to passengers on 1 July 1857 on the line being developed from Moor Row to Rowrah.
Subsidence led the company to build a deviation line which curved round the west side of the station and the growing settlement, in a similar manner to what it was forced to do at Eskett a few miles to the east. They built a passenger station on the deviation line which would go on to be called Cleator Moor East.
When the deviation line - known locally as the Bowthorn Line - and station opened in 1866 the original station was closed to passengers and became "Cleator Moor Goods Depot", with its line known locally as the Crossfield Loop.[5] It remained open for goods traffic until the 1960s.[6][7][8]
Afterlife
Satellite images suggest the station site is Public Open Space. By 2008 the trackbed had been transformed into part of National Cycle Route 71.[9]
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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Frizington Line and station closed |
Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway | Moor Row Line and station closed |
See also
References
- ^ Butt 1995, p. 63.
- ^ Suggitt 2008, p. 52.
- ^ Smith & Turner 2012, Map 26.
- ^ Jowett 1989, Map 36.
- ^ Joy 1983, p. 166.
- ^ Welbourn 2010, p. 111.
- ^ Broughton & Harris 1985, Carlisle-Barrow chapter.
- ^ Gammell 1994, p. 279.
- ^ Suggitt 2008, p. 60.
Sources
- Broughton, John; Harris, Nigel (October 1985). British Railways Past and Present: No. 1 Cumbria. Silver Link Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-947971-04-1.
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(help)CS1 maint: year (link) - Butt, R. V. J. (October 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
- Gammell, C. J. (May 1994). Kennedy, Rex (ed.). "Just a few lines... Cumbria". Steam Days (57). Bournemouth: Redgauntlet Publications. ISSN 0269-0020.
- 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 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
- Joy, David (1983). Lake Counties (Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 094653702X.
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(help) - Smith, Paul; Turner, Keith (2012). Railway Atlas Then and Now. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978 0 7110 3695 6.
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(help) - Suggitt, Gordon (2008). Lost Railways of Cumbria (Railway Series). Newbury: Countryside Books. ISBN 978-1-84674-107-4.
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(help) - Welbourn, Nigel (September 2010). Lost Lines: Joint Railways. Shepperton: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7110-3428-0.
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Further reading
- British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas And Gazetteer. Shepperton: Ian Allan Publishing. 1997 [1958]. ISBN 0-7110-0320-3.
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(help) - Anderson, Paul (April 2002). Hawkins, Chris (ed.). "Dog in the Manger? The Track of the Ironmasters". British Railways Illustrated. 11 (7). Clophill: Irwell Press Ltd.
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(help) - Atterbury, Paul (2009). Along Lost Lines. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-2706-2.
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(help) - Bairstow, Martin (1995). Railways In The Lake District. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-11-2.
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(help) - 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.
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(help) - Bradshaw (1986) [1922]. Bradshaw's July 1922 Railway Guide (reprint). Guild Publishing London.
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(help) - Croughton, Godfrey; Kidner, Roger W.; Young, Alan (1982). Private and Untimetabled Railway Stations, Halts and Stopping Places X 43. Headington, Oxford: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0 85361 281 1.
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(help) - 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.
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(help) - Marshall, John (1981). Forgotten Railways: North West England. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0 7153 8003 6.
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(help) - Western, Robert (2001). The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway OL113. Usk: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-564-0.
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External links
- Map of the line with photos, via RAILSCOT
- The station as a goods station on overlain OS maps surveyed from 1898, via National Library of Scotland
- The original station on an OS map surveyed in 1863, via National Library of Scotland
- The three closed stations on a 1948 OS Map, via npe maps
- The station, via Rail Map Online
- The station and line as a goods station, via railwaycodes
- Cleator Moor East station and deviation line, via railwaycodes
- 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
- The line's and station's Engineer's Line References, via railwaycodes.org.uk
- Furness Railtour using many West Cumberland lines 5 September 1954, via sixbellsjunction
- A video tour-de-force of the region's closed lines, via cumbriafilmarchive
- 1882 RCH Diagram showing the station, see page 173 of the pdf, via google
- Haematite, via earthminerals
- Mining in Cleator Moor, via Haig Pit