Kirkbride railway station

Kirkbride
Location
Place	Kirkbride
Area	Allerdale
Coordinates	54°53′57″N 3°12′12″W / 54.8992°N 3.2032°WCoordinates: 54°53′57″N 3°12′12″W / 54.8992°N 3.2032°W
Grid reference	NY229567
Operations
Original company	Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	1
History
22 August 1856	Station opened
7 September 1964	Station closed
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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

Kirkbride was a stone and brick built railway station with a single platform on the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway on the Solway Plain in Cumbria, England.

A 1903 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (right) railways in the vicinity of Kirkbride

The station opened in August 1856 with the line's extension to Silloth. The North British Railway leased the line and the station in 1862 and subsequently took it over in 1880. In 1923 the station became part of the London and North Eastern Railway and became part of British Railways after nationalisation in 1948. The station closed with the line on 7 September 1964.

The platform has been demolished, but in 2013 the station house still existed as a private residence.

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References

1. http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Carlisle_and_Silloth_Bay_Railway_and_Dock_Company/frame.htm

External links

• Photographs of the station
• The station on an Edwardian 6" OS map, via National Library of Scotland
• The station via Rail Maps Online

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
New Dykes Brow Line and station closed		North British Railway Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company		Sleightholme Line and station closed