Cleator Moor East railway station

Cleator Moor has had three passenger stations:

• The original 1857 Cleator Moor station which became a goods station when it was replaced in 1866. Its 1866 replacement which went on to be known as Cleator Moor East, and the rival 1879 station which went on to be known as Cleator Moor West.

Cleator Moor East
General information
Location	Cleator Moor, Copeland England
Coordinates	54°31′31″N 3°31′41″W / 54.5254°N 3.5281°W / 54.5254; -3.5281
Grid reference	NY011155
Platforms	2[1]
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway
Pre-grouping	LNWR & FR Joint Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1866	Opened as "Cleator Moor", replaced original station[2]
2 June 1924	Renamed "Cleator Moor East"
13 April 1931	Closed to passengers[3]
11 March 1940	Reopened to workmen's trains[4]
8 April 1940	Closed
Location Cleator Moor East Location in present-day Copeland Borough Show map of the former Borough of Copeland Cleator Moor East Location in present-day Cumbria Show map of Cumbria

v t e Whitehaven, Cleator & Egremont Railway
Legend
Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Cumbrian Coast line to Carlisle Cockermouth and Workington Railway Marron Junction Workington Central Workington Main Bridgefoot Harrington Parton Halt Branthwaite Distington Distington Works Gilgarran Branch Ullock Parton Lamplugh Rowrah Whitehaven Summit Winder Whitehaven Tunnel Yeathouse Corkickle Eskett Mirehouse Junction Eskett Junction Moor Row Frizington St Bees Cleator Moor West Cleator Moor East St Bees Golf Halt Cleator Moor (first) Woodend Gillfoot Egremont Nethertown St Thomas Cross Platform Beckermet Mines Braystones Beckermet Sellafield Cumbrian Coast line to Barrow-in-Furness

Cleator Moor East railway station was the second station built by the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway in the growing industrial town of Cleator Moor, Cumbria, England.^[5][6]