Silloth | |||||
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.jpg) Silloth station, 1951 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Silloth, Cumberland England | ||||
| Coordinates | 54°52′03″N 3°23′21″W / 54.8676°N 3.3893°W | ||||
| Grid reference | NY109534 | ||||
| Platforms | 1[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Status | Disused | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company | ||||
| Pre-grouping | North British Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 4 September 1856 | Opened | ||||
| 7 September 1964[12] | Closed | ||||
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Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway | ||||||||||||||
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Silloth was the terminus of the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway, a branch railway from Carlisle, England.[13] The town, dock and station at Silloth were built on a greenfield site after the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Act (1855) was passed.[14] The railway provision grew with the dock and its later additions.[15]
The station was opened in 1856 and closed by the Beeching axe on 7 September 1964, when it had been estimated in 1962 that the line was losing £23,500 a year and rising, staff costs had been pared to the bone and an imminent track bill of £32,500 was to be faced.[16]
- ^ Robinson 1985, p. 34.
- ^ Marsh & Garbutt 1999, p. 149.
- ^ Robinson 2002, p. 41.
- ^ Barbey 1955, p. 92.
- ^ Joy 1973, p. 58.
- ^ Earnshaw 1990a, p. 173.
- ^ Earnshaw 1990b, p. 233.
- ^ Anderson 2004, p. 695.
- ^ Robinson 2004, p. 22.
- ^ Gammell 1994, p. 278.
- ^ Hammond 2015, pp. 414 & 416.
- ^ Quick 2009, p. 353.
- ^ Jowett 1989, Map 36.
- ^ Puxley 2009, p. 9.
- ^ Puxley 2009, pp. 16, 32 & 44.
- ^ Barker 2010, p. 426.