Bromfield railway station | |
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General information | |
Location | Bromfield, Allerdale England |
Coordinates | 54°48′25″N 3°17′24″W / 54.807°N 3.290°W |
Grid reference | NY172465 |
Platforms | 1 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | Solway Junction Railway |
Pre-grouping | Caledonian Railway |
Key dates | |
1 March 1873[1] | Opened |
September 1917 | closed |
1920 | opened |
1 September 1921[2] | Station closed to all traffic |
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Bromfield was a railway station which served Bromfield, a small settlement in Cumbria on the English side of the Solway Firth. The station opened in 1873 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 trains on 13 September 1869.