Brampton Railway

[ v t e ] Brampton Railway

Legend Brampton Town/Brampton Coal StaitheClosed 1923 Line of 1836/Line of 1776 Brampton Junction   Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Opened 1836 Kirkhouse Inclined plane A689 Hallbankgate A689 Black Syke Junction Clowsgill Limeworks Howard Colliery Roachburn Colliery Foresthead Limeworks Howgill Colliery Gairs Colliery Blacksyke Colliery Quarry Tindale Fell Colliery Original end of the 1775 track Bishop Hill Colliery Tindalefell Spelter Works Bishop Hill Junction Midgeholme Halton Lea Gate End of the 1836 track Lambley Colliery End of the 1849 track Lambley   Alston Line 1852

The Brampton railway was a ten-mile-long track branch railway line on the borders of Cumberland and Northumberland, England, that ran from Brampton Town to Lambley on the Alston Line via three intermediate stations, Brampton Junction, Kirkhouse and Halton Lea Gate. The line also connected via spurs to eight collieries.

History

The Brampton railway began in 1775 as a wooden wagonway from Tindale Fell Colliery to Brampton Coal Staithe constructed by the Earl of Carlisle. The wagonway was expanded in both 1798, and 1799, and the lines replaced with cast iron in 1808. A horse-drawn passenger service was introduced in 1836 linking to the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway line at Brampton Junction but ceased operations in 1881. Between 1836 and 1840 Stephenson's Rocket worked on the line.^[1][2] In 1852 the line was extended from Haltonleagate to join the Haltwhistle-Alston line at Lambley. The North Eastern Railway took the line over in 1913. Passenger services were withdrawn in stages between 1917 and 1920, and after consolidation the London and North Eastern Railway closed the line for freight in 1923. The line was leased to the owners of the collieries it served. In 1947 the mines and railway passed to the National Coal Board but 1953 the line closed for good.

The line has been known by a number of other names during its existence, including Lord Carlisle's Railway, the Tindale Fell Railway, the Midgeholme Railway, and the Hartleyburn and Brampton Railway.

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• Line history