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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| Location | |
| Place | Cleator Moor |
| Area | Copeland |
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| Grid reference | NY016152 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway |
| Pre-grouping | LNWR & FR Joint Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| History | |
| 1 July 1857 | Opened[1] |
| 1866 | Closed to passengers, new station 600 yards west[2] |
| 1960s | Closed completely |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway |
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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]
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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 |
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See also
References
- ↑ Butt 1995, p. 63.
- ↑ Suggitt 2008, p. 52.
- ↑ Smith & Turner 2012, Map 26.
- ↑ Jowett 2000, 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
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Further reading
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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
