Carlisle London Road railway station explained

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Carlisle (London Road)
Status:Disused
Borough:City of Carlisle
Country:England
Mapframe-Zoom:12
Platforms:?
Original:Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
Pregroup:North Eastern Railway
Years:20 July 1836
Events:Opened
Years1:1 January 1863
Events1:Closed[1]

Carlisle London Road railway station was the first to open in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. It was built as a terminus of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway and opened in 1836,[2] when trains could only run as far as Greenhead; not until 1838 was it possible to travel by rail all the way to Gateshead.

When the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (L&C) reached Carlisle in 1846 it used London Road station for nine months as a temporary expedient before the opening of Carlisle Citadel railway station. The Maryport and Carlisle Railway (M&C) ran some trains to London Road as well as its own Carlisle station at Crown Street. In 1849, the L&C enforced an agreement the M&C had undertaken to sell Crown Street to allow full development of Citadel; the L&C then rapidly demolished Crown Street, and the M&C used London Road as its Carlisle terminus until 1851, after which its trains ran to Citadel.

The Newcastle and Carlisle was amalgamated with the North Eastern Railway (NER) in 1862; the following year, passenger services to London Road ceased, the Newcastle service now running to Citadel. London Road continued to operate as a goods station for the NER.

It was situated just off London Road, and trains of the Settle-Carlisle Line and the Tyne Valley Line still pass immediately to the south of the site of the former station.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Quick, M. E.. Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. 2002. Railway and Canal Historical Society. Richmond. 114. 931112387.
  2. Book: Joy, David. The Lake Counties - (A Regional history of the railways of Great Britain). 1983. David & Charles. Newton Abbot. 0-946537-02-X. 270.