Cleator Moor railway station

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Coordinates: 54°31′24″N 3°31′13″W / 54.5232°N 3.5203°W / 54.5232; -3.5203
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This article is about the original 1857 station. For its 1866 replacement, see Cleator Moor East railway station. For the rival 1879 station, see Cleator Moor West railway station.

Cleator Moor
General information
LocationCleator Moor, Copeland
England
Coordinates54°31′24″N 3°31′13″W / 54.5232°N 3.5203°W / 54.5232; -3.5203
Grid referenceNY016152
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyWhitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway
Pre-groupingLNWR & FR Joint Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 July 1857Opened[1]
1866Closed to passengers, new station 600 yards west[2]
1960sClosed completely
Location
Cleator Moor is located in the former Borough of Copeland
Cleator Moor
Cleator Moor
Location in present-day Copeland Borough
Cleator Moor is located in Cumbria
Cleator Moor
Cleator Moor
Location in present-day Cumbria
1904 railway junctions around Cleator Moor, Parton, Rowrah & Whitehaven

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[edit]

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[edit]

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
Frizington
Line and station closed 		  Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway   Moor Row
Line and station closed

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Butt 1995, p. 63.
  2. ^ Suggitt 2008, p. 52.
  3. ^ Smith & Turner 2012, Map 26.
  4. ^ Jowett 1989, Map 36.
  5. ^ Joy 1983, p. 166.
  6. ^ Welbourn 2010, p. 111.
  7. ^ Broughton & Harris 1985, Carlisle-Barrow chapter.
  8. ^ Gammell 1994, p. 279.
  9. ^ Suggitt 2008, p. 60.

Sources[edit]

  • Broughton, John; Harris, Nigel (October 1985). British Railways Past and Present: No. 1 Cumbria. Silver Link Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-947971-04-1.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Welbourn, Nigel (September 2010). Lost Lines: Joint Railways. Shepperton: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7110-3428-0.

Further reading[edit]

  • 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. 11 (7). Clophill: Irwell Press Ltd.
  • Atterbury, Paul (2009). Along Lost Lines. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-2706-7.
  • 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.
  • Bradshaw (1986) [1922]. Bradshaw's July 1922 Railway Guide (reprint). Guild Publishing London.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Marshall, John (1981). Forgotten Railways: North West England. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-8003-6.
  • Western, Robert (2001). The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway OL113. Usk: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-564-0.

External links[edit]

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