Bowness railway station

Bowness railway station
General information
LocationBowness-on-Solway, Allerdale
England
Coordinates54°56′57″N 3°13′47″W / 54.949214°N 3.229683°W / 54.949214; -3.229683
Grid referenceNY213623
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companySolway Junction Railway
Pre-groupingCaledonian Railway
Key dates
8 August 1870[1]Opened
September 1917closed
1920reopened
1 September 1921[2][3]Closed to all traffic
Solway Junction Railway
Kirtlebridge
Annan Shawhill
Annan
Solway Viaduct over Solway Firth 
Scotland
England
Bowness
Whitrigg
Kirkbride Junction
Sleightholme
Abbey Junction
Bromfield
Brayton

Bowness was a station which served Bowness-on-Solway, a village in Cumbria on the English side of the Solway Firth. The station opened on 8 August 1870 by the Caledonian Railway on a line constructed from the Caledonian Railway Main Line at Kirtlebridge across the Glasgow South Western Line, then forming the Solway Junction Railway over the Solway Viaduct to Brayton. The line opened for freight from 13 September 1869.

  1. ^ Quick 2009, p. 95.
  2. ^ Edgar & Sinton 1990, p. 59.
  3. ^ Robinson 2002, p. 4.