Cleator Moor railway station

Cleator Moor had three passenger stations:

This article is about the original Cleator Moor station.

Cleator Moor
Location
Place Cleator Moor
Area Copeland
Coordinates 54°31′24″N 3°31′13″W / 54.5232°N 3.5203°W / 54.5232; -3.5203Coordinates: 54°31′24″N 3°31′13″W / 54.5232°N 3.5203°W / 54.5232; -3.5203
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
UK Railways portal
1904 railway junctions around Cleator Moor, Parton, Rowrah & Whitehaven

Whitehaven, Cleator
& Egremont Railway

Legend
Cleator and Workington
Junction Railway
Cumbrian Coast Line
to Carlisle
Cockermouth and
Workington Railway

Marron Junction
Workington Central
Workington Main
Bridgefoot
Harrington
Parton Halt

Branthwaite
Distington
Gilgarran Branch
Distington Works
Ullock
Parton
Lamplugh
Rowrah
Whitehaven
Summit
Winder
Whitehaven Tunnel
Yeathouse
Corkickle
Eskett
Eskett Junction
Mirehouse Junction

Frizington
Moor Row

Cleator Moor West
Cleator Moor East
St Bees
Cleator Moor(first)
Woodend
St Bees Golf Halt
Gillfoot
Egremont
Nethertown
St Thomas Cross
Platform
Beckermet Mines
Braystones
Beckermet
Sellafield
Cumbrian Coast Line
to Barrow-in-Furness

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

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