Leegate railway station

Leegate railway station
Leegate railway station
	The site of the station in 2013
General information
Location	Allerdale ; England
Coordinates	54°47′57″N3°14′19″W / 54.79918°N 3.238507°W Coordinates: 54°47′57″N3°14′19″W / 54.79918°N 3.238507°W
Grid reference	NY20474561
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Maryport & Carlisle Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
2 February 1848	Opened
5 June 1950	Station closed to passengers
1964	Station closed to goods

Last updated October 04, 2022

Leegate was a railway station on the Maryport and Carlisle Railway (M&CR) and served this rural district in Cumbria. The station was opened by the M&CR in 1848^[1] and lay in the Parish of Bromfield.^[2]

History

Leegate station was opened by the Maryport & Carlisle Railway in 1848. At grouping in 1923 the M&CR became a part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. It was one of a number of lightly used intermediate stations on the M&C line closed to passenger traffic by the British Transport Commission in the years immediately after nationalisation of the British Railways network in 1948. Services ceased on 5 June 1950, though goods traffic continued to be handled here until 1964.

The main Carlisle-Maryport line (completed in 1845) remains open and forms part of the Cumbrian Coast Line between Carlisle and Barrow in Furness.

The station had two through platforms, with substantial station buildings and a signal box. No trace however remains of the station today.^[3]

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References

Notes

↑ Quick 2009, p. 244.
↑ "Old Cumbria Gazetteer". Portsmouth University. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
↑ Leegate station site in 2013. Thompson, Nigel, Geograph.org; Retrieved 2013-10-16

Sources

Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.

Further reading

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 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Brookfield Line open, station closed		Maryport and Carlisle Railway Main Line		Brayton Line open, station closed

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[FOOTNOTEQuick2009244-1] Quick 2009, p. 244.

[2] "Old Cumbria Gazetteer". Portsmouth University. Retrieved 28 August 2012.

[3] Leegate station site in 2013. Thompson, Nigel, Geograph.org; Retrieved 2013-10-16

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v t e Closed railway stations in Cumbria
Waverley Route	Kershope Foot Nook Pasture Penton Riddings Junction Scotch Dyke Longtown Gretna Lyneside Harker Parkhouse Halt
Caledonian main line	Gretna Floriston Rockcliffe
Solway Junction Railway	Bowness Whitrigg Bromfield
Port Carlisle Dock and Railway	Port Carlisle Glasson Drumburgh Burgh-by-Sands Kirkandrews Port Carlisle Junction Carlisle Canal
Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway	New Dykes Brow Kirkbride Sleightholme Abbey Junction Abbey Town Black Dyke Halt Causewayhead Silloth Cumberland and Westmorland Convalescent Institution Silloth Battery Extension
Maryport and Carlisle Railway	Carlisle Crown Street Carlisle Bogfield Cummersdale Curthwaite Micklethwaite Brookfield Leegate Low Row Brayton High Blaithwaite Mealsgate Allhallows Colliery Baggrow Arkleby Bullgill Dearham Bridge Dearham Linefoot Dovenby Lodge Papcastle
Newcastle & Carlisle Railway	Carlisle Canal Street Carlisle London Road Scotby Heads Nook How Mill Brampton Fell Brampton Town Naworth Low Row
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway	Brisco Wreay Southwaite Calthwaite Plumpton Clifton and Lowther Shap Tebay Low Gill Grayrigg Milnthorpe Burton and Holme
Ingleton branch line	Low Gill Sedbergh Middleton-on-Lune Barbon
Eden Valley Railway	Clifton Moor Cliburn Temple Sowerby Kirkby Thore Appleby East Warcop Musgrave
South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway	Gaisgill Ravenstonedale Smardale Barras
Settle–Carlisle line	Scotby Cumwhinton Cotehill Little Salkeld Culgaith New Biggin Long Marton Ormside Crosby Garrett
Cleator and Workington Junction Railway	Great Broughton Camerton Colliery Halt Buckhill Colliery Halt Seaton Workington Central High Harrington Distington Oatlands Arlecdon Moresby Parks Moresby Junction Halt Keekle Colliers' Platform Cleator Moor West
Harrington and Lowca Light Railway Gilgarran Branch	Harrington (Church Road) Halt Rosehill (Archer Street) Halt Rose Hill Platform Copperas Hill Micklam Lowca Parton Halt
Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway	Marron Junction Bridgefoot Branthwaite Ullock Lamplugh Rowrah Winder Yeathouse Eskett Frizington Cleator Moor East Cleator Moor Moor Row Woodend Gillfoot Egremont St Thomas Cross Platform Beckermet Mines Beckermet
Whitehaven Junction Railway Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway Furness Railway	Siddick Junction Workington North Newtown Eskmeals Whitbeck Crossing Halt Kirksanton Halt Underhill Halt Dunnerholme Halt Furness Abbey Barrow (Strand) Barrow (Rabbit Hill) Island Road Ramsden Dock Rampside Piel Lindal Ulverston
Cockermouth and Workington Railway	Workington Bridge Camerton Broughton Cross Brigham Cockermouth (C&W)
Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway	Cockermouth Embleton Bassenthwaite Lake Braithwaite Keswick Threlkeld Troutbeck Penruddock Blencow
Coniston Railway	Coniston Torver Woodland Broughton-in-Furness
Other	North Lonsdale Crossing Conishead Priory Newby Bridge Halt Greenodd Boot Sandside Moss Bay Cart Siding