Cleator Moor
General information
LocationCleator Moor, Copeland
England
Coordinates54°31′24″N 3°31′13″W / 54.5232°N 3.5203°W / 54.5232; -3.5203
Grid referenceNY016152
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyWhitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway
Pre-groupingLNWR & FR Joint Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 July 1857Opened[1]
1866Closed to passengers, new station 600 yards west[2]
1960sClosed completely
Location
Cleator Moor is located in the former Borough of Copeland
Cleator Moor
Cleator Moor
Location in present-day Copeland Borough
Cleator Moor is located in Cumbria
Cleator Moor
Cleator Moor
Location in present-day Cumbria
1904 railway junctions around Cleator Moor, Parton, Rowrah & Whitehaven

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

See also

References

  1. ^ Butt 1995, p. 63.
  2. ^ Suggitt 2008, p. 52.
  3. ^ Smith & Turner 2012, Map 26.
  4. ^ Jowett 1989, Map 36.
  5. ^ Joy 1983, p. 166.
  6. ^ Welbourn 2010, p. 111.
  7. ^ Broughton & Harris 1985, Carlisle-Barrow chapter.
  8. ^ Gammell 1994, p. 279.
  9. ^ Suggitt 2008, p. 60.

Sources

Further reading

External links

Closed railway stations in Cumbria
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