Cummersdale railway station

Cummersdale railway station
Tornado near the site of Cummersdale Station
General information
LocationCummersdale, City of Carlisle
England
Coordinates54°51′51″N 2°56′40″W / 54.8642°N 2.9445°W / 54.8642; -2.9445
Grid referenceNY394525
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyMaryport & Carlisle Railway
Post-groupingLondon Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1858Opened
18 June 1951Station closed to passengers
1961Station closed to goods

Cummersdale was a railway station on the Maryport and Carlisle Railway (M&CR) serving Cummersdale in Cumbria. The station was opened by the M&CR in 1858 and lay in the Parish of Cummersdale near to the village of High Cummersdale.[1]

History

Cummersdale Viaduct and the Caldew river.

Cummersdale station was opened by the Maryport & Carlisle Railway in 1858.[2] At grouping in 1923 the M&CR became a part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. It was one of several lightly used intermediate stations on this section of the route to be closed by the British Transport Commission (in 1951) in the years immediately after the nationalisation of the UK rail network. The station was served by workmens trains until the early 1960s.[3] The main Carlisle-Maryport line (completed in 1845) remains open and forms part of the Cumbrian Coast Line between Carlisle and Barrow in Furness.

The station had two through platforms. It lay close to a dye works and overlooked Carlisle racecourse.

George Stephenson was the engineer for the Maryport and Carlisle Railway and his one major engineering structure was the 57-metre-long, three span Cummersdale viaduct which spans the River Caldew at a 52° skew two miles south of Carlisle. This viaduct was the most significant structure on the railway which was opened as a single line, the current twin track viaduct structure was a 1910 upgrade. This bridge was rebuilt in 2012.[4]

References

Notes
  1. ^ Old Cumbria Gazetteer Retrieved : 2012-08-28
  2. ^ Quick 2009, p. 141.
  3. ^ Railway Passenger stations by M.Quick
  4. ^ "Cummersdale makeover". The Rail Engineer. 8 February 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
Sources

Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.

Further reading
  • 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.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Carlisle
Line and station open 		  Maryport & Carlisle Railway
Maryport and Carlisle Railway 		  Dalston
Line and station open