Leegate railway station

Leegate was a railway station on the Maryport and Carlisle Railway (M&CR) and served this rural district in Cumbria. The station was opened by the M&CR in 1848^[1] and lay in the Parish of Bromfield.^[2]

History

Leegate station was opened by the Maryport & Carlisle Railway in 1848. At grouping in 1923 the M&CR became a part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. It was one of a number of lightly-used intermediate stations on the M&C line closed to passenger traffic by the British Transport Commission in the years immediately after nationalisation of the British rail network in 1948. Services ceased on 5 June 1950, though goods traffic continued to be handled here until 1964.

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, with substantial station buildings and a signal box. No trace however remains of the station today.^[3]

References

Notes

Sources

• Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.