Murthwaite Halt railway station explained

Murthwaite Halt
Type:Station on heritage railway
Borough:Eskdale Green, Copeland, Cumbria
Country:England
Coordinates:54.381°N -3.362°W
Owned:R&ER
Operator:R&ER
Manager:R&ER
Platforms:1
Years:1876
Events:Opened (Standard gauge)
Years1:1913
Events1:Station closed
Years2:1916
Events2:Reopened (15 in gauge

Murthwaite Halt railway station is a small intermediate railway station on the 15" gauge Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway in Cumbria, England.[1] It is named after the (now ruined) farm that stood in the field opposite the railway.

The station is located from Ravenglass and from Dalegarth.

Accessibility

Due to Murthwaite Halt only being on a public footpath, which is not, in any way, suitable for wheelchair users, wheelchair users are not permitted to alight at this halt.

Quarrying and stone crushing

The railway serviced the Murthwaite stone crushing plant, built in the 1920s to crush granite from the quarries further up the railway's valley.[2] This was in operation from the 1920s until 1953, and between 1929 and 1953 there was a standard gauge branch from Ravenglass to the crushing plant, the rails being gauntletted either side of the 15" gauge ones.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Railway . The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway Preservation Society . 30 June 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160630092701/http://rerps.co.uk/the-railway/ . 30 June 2016 . live.
  2. Archive Talk 2 - Murthwaite . Ravenglass Railway Museum .