Kirkandrews railway station

Kirkandrews railway station was a railway station near Kirkandrews-on-Eden, Cumbria on the Port Carlisle Railway branch and later the Silloth branch.^[1] The station served the village and the rural district. Kirkandrews closed on 7 September 1964;^[2] the station building survives as a private dwelling. The line to Silloth closed on 7 September 1964 as part of the Beeching cuts.

History

In 1819 a port was constructed at Port Carlisle and in 1821, the Carlisle Navigation Canal.^[3] was built to take goods to Carlisle.^[3] The canal was closed in 1853^[3] and much of it was infilled by the Port Carlisle Railway Company who constructed a railway that started passenger services in 1854, discontinuing them two years later when the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company's (C&SBRDC) new railway to Silloth opened, utilising the Port Carlisle Branch as far as Drumburgh.^[4]

The North British Railway leased the line from 1862, it was absorbed by them in 1880, and then taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.^[4]

Infrastructure

The station sat close to the village in the cut of the old canal; it had a single platform, and a shelter. The branch ran close to the course of Hadrian's Wall. A substantial station building was present. A large seed warehouse was located at the station. In common with other stations on the line, it had its name picked out in sea shells on a raised area opposite the station building.^[5]

References

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Notes

Sources

• Ramshaw, David (1997). The Carlisle Navigation Railway. Carlisle : P3 Publications. ISBN 0-9522098-5-3.
• White, Stephen (1984). Solway Steam. The Story of the Silloth and Port Carlisle Railways. 1854-1964. Carlisle : Carel Press. ISBN 0-9509096-1-0.

External links

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External links

• Cumbria Gazetteer