Parton Halt railway station

Parton Halt
The LNWR Working Time Table for the halt, February 1915
General information
LocationParton, north of Whitehaven, Copeland
England
Coordinates54°34′29″N 3°34′41″W / 54.5747°N 3.5781°W / 54.5747; -3.5781
Grid referenceNX980210
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyLNWR & Furness Joint Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 January 1915Opened to workmen's trains
1 April 1929Closed[1][2][3]
2 November 1929Demolished[4]
Looking north at Parton. No.1 signalbox - since demolished - can be seen. Lowca village is on the centre hilltop, the colliery etc. were to the village's left. The halt was to the right of what looks like a gas holder below the pit site. The Gilgarran Branch curved right up the valley below Lowca village. The coast line curves left round the headland.

Parton Halt railway station was opened by the LNWR and FR Joint Railway ("The Joint Line") in January 1915 and closed by the LMSR fourteen years later in 1929.

The halt never appeared on any public timetable, as it was provided to enable workmen to get from Whitehaven to the isolated colliery, coke ovens and bi-products plant on the hilltop at Lowca. The halt was at the foot of steep tracks up to these workplaces.

  1. ^ Butt 1995, p. xxx.
  2. ^ Croughton, Kidner & Young 1982, p. 111.
  3. ^ Quick 2009, p. 306.
  4. ^ Foster 2019, pp. 18–21.