Abbey Junction railway station

Abbey Junction
The station site years after closure
General information
Location	Abbey Town, Allerdale England
Platforms	?
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Opened	1856
Original company	Solway Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Key dates
1856	Station opened as Abbeyholme
31 August 1870	Station opened as Abbey Junction
1 January 1917	Closed
2 March 1919	Reopened
1 September 1921	Closed

Abbey Junction railway station was the railway junction where the branch line to Silloth on the Solway Firth divided from the Solway Junction Railway in the English county of Cumberland (later Cumbria).

History

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

A station on the site was opened as Abbeyholme by the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway in 1856, and was then renamed Abbey Junction by the North British Railway in 1870. It closed in 1921.

A parallel station on the site was opened as Abbey Junction by the Maryport and Carlisle Railway. It closed briefly from 1917 to 1919 then permanently in 1921.

The closure of the stations was linked to the closure of the Solway viaduct.

Extracts from Bradshaw's Guide, April 1910 showing the two lines which crossed at Abbey Junction, Cumberland

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0.
• Robinson, Peter W. (2002). Cumbria's Lost Railways. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84033-205-6.

External links

• The station on a navigable Edwardian 6" OS map, via National Library of Scotland
• Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway
• The line with period photographs, via Holme St Cuthbert History Group (archive copy)
• The station via Rail Map Online

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Sleightholme Line and station closed		North British Railway Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway		Kirkbride Line and station closed
Whitrigg Line and station closed		Caledonian Railway Solway Junction Railway		Bromfield Line and station closed