Silloth railway station
Silloth | |
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Place | Silloth |
Area | Allerdale |
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Grid reference | NY109534 |
Operations | |
Original company | Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company |
Pre-grouping | North British Railway |
Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
Platforms | 1[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] |
History | |
4 September 1856 | Opened |
7 September 1964[12] | Closed |
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Silloth was the terminus of the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway, a branch railway from Carlisle, England.[13]
The station was opened in 1856 and closed by the Beeching axe on 7 September 1964, when it had been estimated in 1962 that the line was losing £23,500 a year and rising, staff costs had been pared to the bone and an imminent track bill of £32,500 was to be faced.[14]
Contents
Services
Sample timetables along the branch show typical routine patterns.[15] Unfortunately they are undated:
- the first does not show Abbey Junction, suggesting it is after 1 September 1921, nor does it mention the North British, so it may be 1923-1932, when the branch to Port Carlisle closed
- the second matches Bradshaw in 1922[16]
- the third is from British Railways days.
The Winter 1962/3 timetable[17] shows eight trains each way, Monday to Saturday, with a Saturday extra, as well as three trains on Sundays. The table strikes the eye as being simpler than earlier timetables with:
- all trains 2nd Class only
- a much better service to Blackdyke Halt
- no through trains beyond Carlisle
- Drumburgh had closed in 1955.
The line was one of the first in the country to be dieselised, with one train a day remaining steam-hauled.
The branch was atypical in that from the 1880s successive owners had fostered a vigorous trade in "Specials", the cornerstone of which was Carlisle to Silloth and back for a shilling. This was backed by encouraging outings to Silloth by a wide range of customers such as Sunday schools, Temperance clubs and racegoers.[18] Many specials were both long and well-filled; the longest ever was not a trippers' train, but a celebration train for the reopening of Carr's flour mill in 1905.[5]
Freight traffic, which had done well in wartime,[19] notably because it was on the north west coast, was following the pattern of the rest of the country - in decline. There was insufficient shunting to justify keeping the small locoshed open after 6 July 1953[20][21] and erstwhile staple business such as flour traffic from Carr's Mill fell from £7000 to £100 per month, the business being lost to road competition.[22]
The future
The Allerdale council in northern England passed its final approval on a plan to demolish the remaining structure of the station on 8 December 2006. The development firm James Morgan Ltd. was awarded a contract to build new single-family housing on the property. Stuart Hinchliffe, director of the development firm also stated "We will be reinstating as much of the old railway platform as we can, to maintain Silloth’s Victorian history."[23]
See also
References
- ↑ Robinson 1985, p. 34.
- ↑ Marsh & Garbutt 1999, p. 149.
- ↑ Robinson 2002, p. 41.
- ↑ Barbey 1955, p. 92.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Joy 1973, p. 58.
- ↑ Earnshaw 1990a, p. 173.
- ↑ Earnshaw 1990b, p. 233.
- ↑ Anderson 2004, p. 695.
- ↑ Robinson 2004, p. 22.
- ↑ Gammell 1994, p. 278.
- ↑ Hammond 2015, pp. 414 & 416.
- ↑ Quick 2009, p. 353.
- ↑ Jowett 2000, Map 36.
- ↑ Barker 2010, p. 426.
- ↑ Silloth timetables, via Cumbrian Railways Association
- ↑ Bradshaw 1985, p. 795.
- ↑ Barker 2010, p. 424.
- ↑ Thomlinson 1983, pp. 10-12.
- ↑ Silloth coal hoists, via YouTube
- ↑ Smith & Griffiths 2000, p. 328.
- ↑ Hammond 2015, p. 416.
- ↑ Barker 2010, p. 425.
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Further reading
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External links
- The station on a navigable Edwardian OS map, via National Library of Scotland
- The station on the branch, with mileages, via Railway Codes
- The line with period photographs, via Holme St Cuthbert History Group
- The line and station, via Cumbrian Railways Association
- Images of the battery and railways in Silloth, via BBC and others
- 1929 aerial view of he station, via Britain from above (sign-in needed to zoom)
- The station via Rail Map Online
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