Cumberland and Westmorland Convalescent Institution railway station

Cumberland and Westmorland Convalescent Institution
The station with a typical train, around the beginning of the 20th Century
Location
Place	Silloth
Area	Allerdale
Coordinates	54°51′54″N 3°23′48″W / 54.8651°N 3.3967°WCoordinates: 54°51′54″N 3°23′48″W / 54.8651°N 3.3967°W
Grid reference	NY104531
Operations
Original company	Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	1[1]
History
1862	Opened
Unclear,[2] either about 1928[3] or after 1937[4]	Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
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Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
Locale Cumbria Dates of operation 1854 – 1964 Predecessor Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway Successor NBR 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 Abbey Junction Sleightholme Solway Junction Railway northbound Kirkbride New Dykes Brow Port Carlisle Glasson Drumburgh Burgh-by-Sands Kirkandrews Waverley Line northbound Port Carlisle Junction Carlisle Canal West Coast Main Line northbound Carlisle Citadel West Coast Main Line southbound

Cumberland and Westmorland Convalescent Institution railway station was a terminus off the short Blitterlees Branch off the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway, within Silloth itself.^[5] The larger railway ran from Carlisle, England. The station does not appear on standard railway maps,^[6] but it can be discerned with a magnifying glass on at least two published maps.^[7]

The station's sole purpose was to serve the convalescent home of the same name. Although this was the home's formal title, it was widely referred to as "Silloth Convalescent Home", as was the station. The station never appeared in public timetables.^[8]

"Invalid Trains" to the station were run on an ad hoc basis, though for may years they commonly ran on Thursdays around 15:00, preceded by a shunter or a guard on foot.^[4]

The unstaffed station was minimalist, consisting of a single wooden platform next to the singe track.

The home and station opened in 1862. One source states that the station is believed to have closed around 1928, whilst another, with local knowledge, refers to it as both mentioned in the 1937 Sectional Appendix and "open during the Second World War".^[4] In 2015 the home was still operating.^[9]

See also

• List of closed railway stations in Britain

References

1. The station, via Cumbrian Railways Association
2. Croughton, Kidner & Young 1982, p. 126.
3. Quick 2009, p. 353.
4. Thomlinson 1985, p. 74.
5. Suggitt 2008, p. 103.
6. Jowett 2000, Map 36.
7. Puxley 2009, pp. 32 & 44.
8. Robinson 2002, p. 41.
9. The convalescent home, via Its own website

Sources

• Croughton, Godfrey; Kidner, Roger Wakely; Young, Alan (1982). Private and Untimetabled Railway Stations, Halts and Stopping Places. Catrine, Ayrshire: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-281-1. OCLC 10507501. X43.
• 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
• Puxley, Chris (2009). The Port of Silloth 1858 - 2009: A Pictorial History Through 150 Years of a Solway Port. Portishead, Bristol: Bernard McCall. ISBN 978-1-902953-42-7.
• Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.
• Robinson, Peter W. (2002). Cumbria's Lost Railways. Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 1 84033 205 0.
• Suggitt, Gordon (2008). Lost Railways of Cumbria (Railway Series). Newbury: Countryside Books. ISBN 978-1-84674-107-4.
• Thomlinson, G. (February 1985). Peascod, Michael, ed. "Rails on the Solway - 2". Cumbrian Railways. Pinner: Cumbrian Railways Association. 3 (5). ISSN 1466-6812.

Further reading

• Bradshaw (1986) [1922]. Bradshaw's July 1922 Railway Guide (reprint). Guild Publishing London.
• Edgar, Stuart; Sinton, John H. (1990). The Solway Junction Railway. Catrine, Ayrshire: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0853613954. Locomotion Papers LP176.
• Marsh, John; Garbutt, John (1999). Cumbrian Railways. Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0750920432.
• Mullay, Alexander J. (2006). Rails Across the Border. Tempus. ISBN 075243666X.
• Robinson, Peter W. (August 1995). Peascod, Michael, ed. "Maryport & Carlisle 150". Cumbrian Railways. Pinner: Cumbrian Railways Association. 5 (12). ISSN 1466-6812.
• Robinson, Peter W. (1985). Railways of Cumbria. Clapham, via Lancaster: Dalesman Books. ISBN 0 85206 815 8.
• Voice, David (2007). Hospital Tramways and Railways (3rd ed.). Brora, Sutherland: Adam Gordon. ISBN 978-1-874422-67-9.
• Webb, David R. (September 1964). Cooke, B.W.C., ed. "Between the Solway and Sellafield: Part One". The Railway Magazine. London: Tothill Press Limited. 110 (761).
• White, Stephen (1984). Solway Steam: The Story of the Silloth and Port Carlisle Railways, 1854-1964. Carlisle: Carel Press Limited. ISBN 0950909610.

External links

• The station on a navigable Edwardian OS map, via National Library of Scotland
• The station on the branch, with mileages, via Railway Codes
• The line with period photographs, via Holme St Cuthbert History Group
• The line and station, via Cumbrian Railways Association
• The station via Rail Map Online
• The station and institution from the air, via Britain from the Air (free login needed to zoom)

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