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Copperas Hill railway station

释义

Freight services
A British record
Afterlife
See also
References
Sources
Further reading
External links

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| original = Lowca Light Railway
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| locale = Copperas Hill, near Harrington, Cumbria
| borough = Copeland
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| years = 15 April 1912
| events = Workmen's service commenced
| years1 = 2 June 1913
| events1 = Public passenger service^[2]
| years2 = September 1921
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| years3 = 1 April 1929
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Copperas Hill railway station served the small clifftop community of Copperas Hill, south of Harrington in the former county of Cumberland, England, which is now part of Cumbria.

A public passenger service called at the station between 2 June 1913 and September 1921, though unadvertised workmen's trains had started in April 1912 and continued until April 1929, after which all forms of passenger service ceased.

By 1922 the service had settled down to three trains each way between Lowca and Workington Central, though, surprisingly in that age, trains had stopped calling at Copperas Hill in September 1921. There never was a public Sunday service.{{sfn|Bradshaw|1985|p=595}}

The station was on the Harrington and Lowca Light Railway which connected with the Cleator & Workington Junction Railway (CWJR) at Rosehill Junction a short distance north of Copperas Hill and south of Harrington Village. Workmen's services to and from Copperas Hill variously ran from {{rws|Moss Bay Cart Siding}}, {{rws|Maryport}} (during the First World War), {{rws|Workington Central}} and {{rws|Seaton (Cumbria)}}. Public passenger trains ran to these last two only.

Freight services

The railway through Copperas Hill was first and foremost a mineral railway, with the short-lived workmen's and passenger services an afterthought. A waggonway had reached a chemical works at the station site in the first half of the nineteenth century, connecting Harrington harbour with John Pit and Hodgson Pit. Later developments, eventually ran northwards towards Workington and northeastwards to meet the Gilgarran Branch at Bain's Siding. The driving forces were coal at Lowca, fireclay and bricks (primarily aimed at lining furnaces at Workington's steelworks), coke and coking bi-products. Centrepiece for over fifty years was Harrington No. 10 Colliery which, confusingly, was not in Harrington, but in Lowca.

Between them these industrial concerns sustained the railway through Copperas Hill until final closure to all traffic in May 1973.

Although closed in 1921 the station was still in good shape in 1969.{{sfn|Anderson|2001|p=402}}

A British record

Copperas Hill station was short-lived, but the track immediately north of the station has its place in the railway record books. Its southbound uphill gradient of 1 in 17 was the steepest adhesion-worked British incline carrying a regular, timetabled passenger service.{{sfn|McGowan Gradon|2004|loc=P. 30, Note 2}}{{sfn|Robinson|1985|p=66}}{{sfn|Robinson|2002|p=27}}

Afterlife

The track through the station site was lifted by the end of 1973. The trackbed now forms part of the Cumbrian Way.

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|previous={{rws|Rose Hill Platform}}
Line and station closed
|next={{rws|Micklam}}
Line and station closed
|route=Lowca Light Railway
|col={{LNWR colour}} }}{{s-end}}

References

1. ^Copperas Hill station, via Harrington History
2. ^1913 Public Timetable, via Cumbrian Railways Association

Sources

{{cite journal |last1=Andrews |first1=Dr Michael |editor1-first=Michael |editor1-last=Peascod |date=May 2001 |title=The Harrington and Lowca Light Railway |journal=Cumbrian Railways |volume=7| issue= 2 |publisher=Cumbrian Railways Association |location=Pinner |issn=1466-6812 |ref=harv }}
{{Bradshaw-1922July}}
{{cite book |last=McGowan Gradon |first=W. |title=The Track of the Ironmasters: A History of the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway |year=2004 |origyear=1952 |publisher=Cumbrian Railways Association |location=Grange-over-Sands |isbn=978-0-9540232-2-5 |ref=harv }}
{{cite book |last=Robinson |first=Peter W. |title=Railways of Cumbria |year=1985 |publisher=Dalesman Books |location=Clapham, North Yorkshire |isbn=978-0-85206-815-1 |ref=harv }}
{{cite book |last=Robinson |first=Peter W. |title=Cumbria's Lost Railways |year=2002 |publisher=Stenlake Publishing |location=Catrine |isbn=978-1-84033-205-6 |ref=harv }}

External links

The closed station on an inter-war OS map National Library of Scotland
The station Rail Map Online
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/12a_kingmoor_klickr/5757868066 Latterday steam at Lowca] flickr
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/12a_kingmoor_klickr/5757870378 Latterday steam at Lowca] flickr
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/russell_w_b/sets/72157603792487742/ Industrial relics at Lowca] flickr
The line railwaycodes
[https://haigpit.wordpress.com/harrington-collieries/ The Harrington collieries] Haig Pit Mining Museum

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