Broughton Cross railway station explained

Broughton Cross
Status:	Disused
Borough:	Broughton Cross, Allerdale
Country:	England
Coordinates:	54.6595°N -3.4343°W
Grid Name:	Grid reference
Platforms:	2
Original:	Cockermouth & Workington Railway
Pregroup:	London and North Western Railway
Postgroup:	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Years:	28 April 1847
Events:	Opened
Years2:	2 March 1942
Events2:	Closed

Broughton Cross railway station was situated on the Cockermouth and Workington Railway and served the village of Broughton Cross, Cumbria, England.

History

The station opened on 28 April 1847 and closed on 2 March 1942.

Afterlife

By 2013 the station site was buried under the A66.

See also

• Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway

References

Sources

• • • Book: Smith. Paul. Turner. Keith. Railway Atlas Then and Now. 2012. Ian Allan Publishing. 978 0 7110 3695 6 .

Further reading

• Book: British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas And Gazetteer. 1958 . 1997 . . Shepperton. 0-7110-0320-3 .
• Anderson . Paul . Chris . Hawkins . April 2002 . Dog in the Manger? The Track of the Ironmasters . British Railways Illustrated . 11. 7 . Irwell Press Ltd . Clophill .
• Book: Bairstow, Martin . Railways In The Lake District . 1995 . Martin Bairstow . 1-871944-11-2 .
• Book: Bowtell, Harold D. . Rails through Lakeland: An Illustrated Journey of the Workington-Cockermouth-Keswick-Penrith Railway 1847-1972 . 1989 . Silverling Publishing Ltd . Wyre, Lancashire . 0-947971-26-2 .
• Book: Joy, David . Lake Counties (Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain) . 1983 . . Newton Abbot . 094653702X .
• Book: McGowan Gradon, W. . The Track of the Ironmasters: A History of the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway . 2004 . 1952 . Cumbrian Railways Association . Grange-over-Sands . 0-9540232-2-6 .
• Book: Marshall, John . Forgotten Railways: North West England . 1981 . . Newton Abbot . 0 7153 8003 6 .
• Book: Suggitt, Gordon . Lost Railways of Cumbria (Railway Series) . 2008 . Countryside Books . Newbury . 978-1-84674-107-4 .
• Book: Western, Robert . The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway OL113 . 2001 . Oakwood Press . Usk . 0-85361-564-0 .

External links

• Map of the line with photos, via RAILSCOT
• The station on an OS map surveyed in 1864, via National Library of Scotland
• The station on overlain OS maps surveyed from 1898, via National Library of Scotland
• The closed station on a 1948 OS Map, via npe maps
• The station, via Rail Map Online
• The railways of Cumbria, via Cumbrian Railways Association
• Photos of Cumbrian railways, via Cumbrian Railways Association
• The railways of Cumbria, via Railways_of_Cumbria
• Cumbrian Industrial History, via Cumbria Industrial History Society
• Local history of the CKPR route, via Cockermouth
• The line's and station's Engineer's Line References, via railwaycodes.org.uk
• A video tour-de-force of the region's closed lines, via cumbriafilmarchive