Gillfoot railway station
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Place | Egremont, Cumbria |
Area | Copeland |
Coordinates | 54°29′34″N 3°31′50″W / 54.4928°N 3.5306°WCoordinates: 54°29′34″N 3°31′50″W / 54.4928°N 3.5306°W |
Grid reference | NY009119 |
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Original company | Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway |
Platforms | Unknown |
History | |
? | opened |
? | Closed to passengers |
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Gillfoot railway station was on the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway line half a mile north of Egremont station, in Cumbria, England.
History and location
The line was one of the fruits of the rapid industrialisation of West Cumberland in the second half of the Nineteenth Century, opening to passengers on 1 July 1857.
Gillfoot station appears in the 1882 Railway Clearing House junction diagrams as "Gillfoot Sta. and Jn", shown right, but not in the 1904 edition. It is shown as a goods station in Jowett.[1]
The station appears in the Engineers' Line Reference database which can be accessed via External links, below.
The station does not appear in other standard works, notably Butt and Croughton, nor is it mentioned in any of the other works listed below, online or on paper.
The station was at the junction of the branch to Gillfoot iron ore mines. This had not been started when the 1867 OS 6" map was surveyed. The junction is plain to see in the overlaid c1900 OS map, but no station or building is evident.
Services
If the station ever opened to passengers it is likely that it was served by workmen's trains only.
Afterlife
By 2013 the trackbed through the junction was a public footpath.
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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Woodend Line and station closed |
Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway | Egremont (Cumbria) Line and station closed |
See also
References
- ↑ Jowett 2000, Map 36.
Sources
- Anderson, Paul (April 2002). Hawkins, Chris, ed. "Dog in the Manger? The Track of the Ironmasters". British Railways Illustrated. Clophill: Irwell Press Ltd. 11 (7).
- Bradshaw (1986) [1922]. Bradshaw's July 1922 Railway Guide (reprint). Guild Publishing London.
- Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
- Croughton, Godfrey; Kidner, Roger W.; Young, Alan (1982). Private and Untimetabled Railway Stations, Halts and Stopping Places X 43. Headington, Oxford: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0 85361 281 1.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
- McGowan Gradon, W. (2004) [1952]. The Track of the Ironmasters: A History of the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway. Grange-over-Sands: Cumbrian Railways Association. ISBN 0-9540232-2-6.
- Quayle, Howard (2007). Whitehaven: The Railways and Waggonways of a Unique Cumberland Port. Pinner: Cumbrian Railways Association. ISBN 978-0-9540232-5-6.
- Smith, Paul; Turner, Keith (2012). Railway Atlas Then and Now. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978 0 7110 3695 6.
- Suggitt, Gordon (2008). Lost Railways of Cumbria (Railway Series). Newbury: Countryside Books. ISBN 978-1-84674-107-4.
Further reading
- British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas And Gazetteer. Shepperton: Ian Allan Publishing. 1997 [1958]. ISBN 0-7110-0320-3.
- Atterbury, Paul (2009). Along Lost Lines. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-2706-2.
- Bairstow, Martin (1995). Railways In The Lake District. Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-11-2.
- Bowtell, Harold D. (1989). Rails through Lakeland: An Illustrated Journey of the Workington-Cockermouth-Keswick-Penrith Railway 1847-1972. Wyre, Lancashire: Silverling Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-947971-26-2.
- Joy, David (1983). Lake Counties (Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 094653702X.
- Marshall, John (1981). Forgotten Railways: North West England. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0 7153 8003 6.
- Western, Robert (2001). The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway OL113. Usk: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-564-0.
External links
- The station on the line with Engineer's Line References, via railwaycodes.org.uk
- Map of the line with photos, via RAILSCOT
- The station not on an 1867 OS map, via National Library of Scotland
- The station not on overlain OS maps surveyed from 1898, via National Library of Scotland
- The station not on a 1948 OS Map, via npe maps
- The railways of Cumbria, via Cumbrian Railways Association
- Photos of Cumbrian railways, via Cumbrian Railways Association
- The railways of Cumbria, via Railways_of_Cumbria
- Cumbrian Industrial History, via Cumbria Industrial History Society
- Furness Railtour using many West Cumberland lines 5 September 1954, via sixbellsjunction
- A video tour-de-force of the region's closed lines, via cumbriafilmarchive
- Haematite, via earthminerals