Causewayhead railway station

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

Causewayhead
LocationCausewayhead, Allerdale
England
Coordinates54.8629°N 3.3657°W / 54.8629; -3.3657
Grid referenceNY124528
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyCarlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company
Key dates
November 1856In Bradshaw as "Causey Head"
1857Amended in Bradshaw to "Causewayhead"
April 1859Last appeared in Bradshaw[1]

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]

The line through the crossing closed on 7 September 1964.[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
  1. Quick 2009, p. 118.
  2. "Causewayhead stopping point". Tiny World.
  3. "Causewayhead crossing in 1866,". National Library of Scotland.
  4. "Causewayhead crossing after World War II". Holme St Cuthbert History Group. Archived from the original on 18 May 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  5. "Some line details". Cumbria Railways.

Sources
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
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