Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway

Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway

1920 map of the railway
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Length	30 miles 65 chains (49.6 km) (1919)[1]
Track length	49 miles 15.5 chains (79.17 km) (1919)[1]
Route map v t e Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway Legend Cockermouth and Workington Railway Cockermouth goods station (formerly C&W railway station) Cockermouth River Cocker Embleton Bassenthwaite Lake Bassenthwaite Lake Braithwaite River Derwent Keswick Briery Siding Halt unadvertised halt for workmen 1922-1958 River Greta Naddle Beck River Greta Threlkeld Highgate Platform unadvertised halt for schoolchildren Mosedale Beck Trout Beck Troutbeck Penruddock Blencow Penrith West Coast Main Line

The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway (CK&PR) was an English railway company incorporated by act of Parliament on 1 August 1861, to build a line connecting the town of Cockermouth with the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) West Coast Main Line at Penrith. Arrangements for the use of the stations at either end (Cockermouth was already served by the Cockermouth and Workington Railway (C&WR)) were included. Passenger and goods traffic was worked by the LNWR and mineral traffic by the North Eastern Railway, both of whom had shares in the company (the NER inheriting its holding from the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which had encouraged the promotion of the line). The line was 31+1⁄2 miles (50.7 km) in length, and had eight intermediate stations.