Cotehill railway station

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Station master's house at Cotehill Station. Cotehillhouse.jpg
Station master's house at Cotehill Station.
Crossing at Cotehill Station. Cotehillcrossing.jpg
Crossing at Cotehill Station.
All these villages, near Carlisle, had railway stations. (Wetheral Pasture is adjacent to Cumwhinton). Cotehillsign.jpg
All these villages, near Carlisle, had railway stations. (Wetheral Pasture is adjacent to Cumwhinton).

Cotehill railway station was a railway station on the Settle-Carlisle Railway in England between Armathwaite and Cumwhinton. The line opened for passengers in 1876. [1] The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders. [2]

The Ordnance Survey map published in the year 1900 shows the station serving the point at which a tramway from Knothill Plaster and Cement Works meets the Settle-Carlisle. The tramway continued from Knothill to Boaterby Quarry. According to Tyler, Knothill was one of the first Gypsum sites in Cumbria. [3]

The station is named after the nearest village, Cotehill, but this is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away and extremely small. It is closer to the site of Englethwaite Hall which was built by John Thomlinson in 1879 but demolished by 1969, [4] the site now being the location of a Caravan Club campsite. It is clear from the map that the sparse local population could not have sustained a railway station. In addition, the station is only 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from Armathwaite and very close to Cumwhinton, both of which had stations of their own.

The tramway is absent from later maps, though its route is clearly visible as a track on the 1951 map. The station closed in 1952. Unusually for this line, the passenger buildings were demolished. The site remains clear so could in principle be re-used. One end of it is occupied by a communication mast. The stationmaster's house and railway workers' cottages are immediately adjacent to the Cotehill Viaduct, where the railway crosses High Stand Gill near where it flows into the Eden. The houses are privately occupied.

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References

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  2. ↑ "Notes by the Way" . Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 1 November 1884. Retrieved 12 July 2016– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "Gypsum in Cumbria". Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  4. ↑ "Plaster magnate who built his house on straw". Cumberland News. 20 June 2008. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
  5. 1 2 "1871-1879 Coaching". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 732. 1871. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "1881-1898 Coaching". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 33. 1881. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
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Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Armathwaite   Midland Railway
Settle-Carlisle Railway 		  Cumwhinton

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