Plumpton railway station (Cumbria)

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Plumpton railway station
General information
Location Plumpton, Eden
England
Coordinates 54°43′33″N2°47′52″W / 54.7258°N 2.7978°W / 54.7258; -2.7978 Coordinates: 54°43′33″N2°47′52″W / 54.7258°N 2.7978°W / 54.7258; -2.7978
Grid reference NY487370
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
17 December 1846Opened
31 May 1948Closed to passengers
1948 [1] Closed to goods

Plumpton railway station in Hesket parish in what is now Cumbria but was then Cumberland in the north west of England, was situated on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (the West Coast Main Line) between Carlisle and Penrith. It served the village of Plumpton and the surrounding hamlets. The station opened on 17 December 1846, and closed on 31 May 1948. [2]

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Lancaster and
Carlisle Railway
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Carlisle Citadel
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Brisco
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Wreay
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Southwaite
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Calthwaite
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Plumpton
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Penrith
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Clifton Moor
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Clifton and Lowther
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Shap
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Shap Summit
914 ft
278.6 m
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Tebay
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Low Gill
(2nd)
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Low Gill
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Grayrigg
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Grayrigg
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Oxenholme
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Milnthorpe
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Burton and Holme
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Carnforth
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Bolton-le-Sands
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Hest Bank
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Lancaster Castle
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The station

The station was situated in the part of the village called Brockleymoor and had two platforms, a signal box, a station master's house and railway workers' cottages. The relatively sizeable goods yard had a weighing machine, crane, coal yard and cattle pens. [3] The station house and goods yard buildings remain as a pottery outlet, [4] but the platforms have been demolished. The line through the station site has been electrified and becomes triple-tracked at that point for a short distance towards Carlisle.

Stations on the line

The next station on the line towards Carlisle was Calthwaite and the preceding station was Penrith.

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References

Notes
  1. Pastscape Retrieved : 2012-09-15
  2. Butt 1995 , p. 186
  3. Old Maps Retrieved 2012-09-15
  4. "About Us". The Pot Place Garden Centre. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
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