Causewayhead railway station

54°51′46″N 3°21′57″W / 54.8629°N 3.3657°W / 54.8629; -3.3657Grid referenceNY124528Platforms1Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyCarlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock CompanyKey datesNovember 1856In Bradshaw as "Causey Head"1857Amended in Bradshaw to "Causewayhead"April 1859Last appeared in Bradshaw^[1]

v t e Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
Overview Locale Cumbria Dates of operation 1854–1964 Predecessor Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway Successor NBR Technical 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 Sleightholme Abbey Junction Solway Junction Railway northbound Kirkbride New Dykes Brow Port Carlisle Glasson Drumburgh Burgh-by-Sands Kirkandrews Waverley Line northbound Port Carlisle Junction Carlisle Canal Carlisle West Coast Main Line southbound│northbound

Causewayhead or, originally, Causey Head, was an early, short lived railway station near Causewayhead, Cumbria on the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company's branch from Carlisle to Silloth

The station served the small hamlet of Causewayhead and its rural surrounds.

Its timetable entries show trains calling on Saturdays Only. It only appeared in public timetables from November 1856 to April 1859. The 18 September 1856 entry in a contemporary journal states that "[locomotives]...generally call at Causeway Head to quench the thirst of the Steam Horse. They pump the water out of the beck."^[2]

By 1866 no trace of a station could be seen on OS maps,^[3] though a building – almost certainly the crossing keeper's cottage - is clear. It is possible that this was a "use it or lose it" stopping place where no platforms were built.

The level crossing required the services of a crossing keeper until the line closed in 1964.^[4][5]

History

The North British Railway (NBR) leased the line from the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company in 1862, and absorbed them in 1880, The NBR, in turn, was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923, passing to British Railways in 1948.

References

Sources

• Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.

External links

• "The line with period photographs". Holme St Cuthbert History Group. Archived from the original on 18 May 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
• "Bits about the line". Portsmouth University.
• "The station and line". Rail Map Online.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Blackdyke Halt Line and station closed		Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway		Silloth Line and station closed
				Silloth Convalescent Home Line and station closed
				Silloth Battery Extension Line and station closed