Gillfoot railway station

Gillfoot
Location
Place Egremont, Cumbria
Area Copeland
Coordinates 54°29′34″N 3°31′50″W / 54.4928°N 3.5306°W / 54.4928; -3.5306Coordinates: 54°29′34″N 3°31′50″W / 54.4928°N 3.5306°W / 54.4928; -3.5306
Grid reference NY009119
Operations
Original company Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway
Platforms Unknown
History
? opened
? Closed to passengers
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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An 1882 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing railways in the area

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
Gilgarran Branch
Distington Works
Ullock
Parton
Lamplugh
Rowrah
Whitehaven
Summit
Winder
Whitehaven Tunnel
Yeathouse
Corkickle
Eskett
Eskett Junction
Mirehouse Junction

Frizington
Moor Row

Cleator Moor West
Cleator Moor East
St Bees
Cleator Moor(first)
Woodend
St Bees Golf Halt
Gillfoot
Egremont
Nethertown
St Thomas Cross
Platform
Beckermet Mines
Braystones
Beckermet
Sellafield
Cumbrian Coast Line
to Barrow-in-Furness

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
Woodend
Line and station closed
  Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway   Egremont (Cumbria)
Line and station closed

See also

References

  1. Jowett 2000, Map 36.

Sources

Further reading

External links

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