Abbey Town railway station

Abbey Town
Location of the former station (1991)
General information
Location	Abbey Town, Cumberland England
Coordinates	54°50′45″N3°17′16″W / 54.8459°N 3.2877°W / 54.8459; -3.2877
Grid reference	NY174508
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Opened	22 August 1856
Original company	Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
22 August 1856	Station opened as Abbey
August 1889	Renamed Abbey Town
7 September 1964	Station closed

v t e Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
Overview Locale Cumbria Dates of operation 1854–1964 Predecessor Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway Successor NBR Technical Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Legend
Silloth Battery Extension Silloth Convalescent Home Silloth Docks and Pier Silloth Causewayhead Blackdyke Halt Abbey Town Solway Junction Railway southbound Sleightholme Abbey Junction Solway Junction Railway northbound Kirkbride New Dykes Brow Port Carlisle Glasson Drumburgh Burgh-by-Sands Kirkandrews Waverley Line northbound Port Carlisle Junction Carlisle Canal Carlisle West Coast Main Line southbound│northbound

Abbey Town railway station was on the branch line off the Solway Junction Railway in the English county of Cumberland (later Cumbria). The first station after Abbey Junction on the branch to Silloth on the Solway Firth, it served the village of Abbey Town. The station closed with the line to Silloth in 1964.

History

Opened as Abbey by the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway in 1856, then renamed Abbey Town by the North British Railway in 1889, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station closed on 7 September 1964.

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN   978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC   228266687.

Further material

• Oatway, Jim (2003) [1964]. Cumberland Glory (DVD). Ultimate Archive Steam. Uffington, Shropshire: B&R Video Productions. Vol 44.

External links

• Pictures of the station, via Cumbrian Railways Association
• Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway, via Cumbrian Railways Association
• The area's railways, via Holme St Cuthbert History Group
• Abbey Town station on navigable 1956 O. S. map, via npe Maps
• The station on an Edwardian OS map, via National Library of Scotland
• The station via Rail Map Online

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Sleightholme Line and station closed		North British Railway Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway		Black Dyke Halt Line and station closed