Leegate railway station

Leegate railway station
Location
Area Allerdale
Coordinates 54°47′57″N 3°14′19″W / 54.79918°N 3.238507°WCoordinates: 54°47′57″N 3°14′19″W / 54.79918°N 3.238507°W
Grid reference NY20474561
Operations
Original company Maryport & Carlisle Railway
Post-grouping London Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms 2
History
2 February 1848 Opened
5 June 1950 Station closed to passengers
1964 Station closed to goods
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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
  1. Quick 2009, p. 244.
  2. "Old Cumbria Gazetteer". Portsmouth University. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  3. Leegate station site in 2013. Thompson, Nigel, Geograph.org; Retrieved 2013-10-16
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Further reading
Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Brookfield
Line open, station closed
  Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Main Line
  Brayton
Line open, station closed