- History
- References Sources
- Further reading
- See also
- External links
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}}{{Use British English|date=January 2018}}{{Infobox UK disused station
| name = Cockermouth (C&W)
| image_name =
| caption =
| coordinates = {{coord|54.6637|-3.3743|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| gridref = NY114307
| original = Cockermouth & Workington Railway
| pregroup = London and North Western Railway
| postgroup = London Midland and Scottish Railway
| locale = Cockermouth
| borough = Allerdale
| platforms = 1
| years = 28 April 1847
| events = Opened
| years1 = 2 January 1865
| events1 = Closed to passengers and replaced by new station{{sfn|Butt|1995|p=65}}
| years2 = 1964
| events2 = Closed completely{{sfn|Suggitt|2008|p=78}}
}}{{Cockermouth and Workington Railway RDT|collapse=yes}}The original Cockermouth railway station was the eastern terminus of the Cockermouth & Workington Railway.{{sfn|Jowett|2000|loc=Map 36}} It served the town of Cockermouth, Cumbria, England. HistoryThe station opened on 28 April 1847. It closed on 2 January 1865, being replaced by the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway station when the line was extended eastwards to Penrith using a different alignment.{{sfn|Western|2001|loc=Chapters 2 & 3}} After closure to passengers the station remained in use as a goods station until 1964. The station area included an engine shed which was opened on 28 April 1847, extended in 1858 and closed in 1876, after which it was converted for use as a goods shed.{{sfn|Western|2001|page=35}} The shed was demolished in the mid-1990s.{{sfn|Griffith|Smith|2000|p=329}} {{Disused Rail Start}}{{rail line
|next=Brigham
Line and station closed
|route=Cockermouth & Workington Railway
|col={{LNWR colour}} }}{{s-end}}ReferencesSources{{refbegin}}- {{Butt-Stations}}
- {{Griffiths-Sheds2}}
- {{Jowett-Atlas}}
- {{cite book |last=Suggitt |first=Gordon |title=Lost Railways of Cumbria (Railway Series) |year=2008 |publisher=Countryside Books |location=Newbury |isbn=978-1-84674-107-4 |ref=harv }}
- {{cite book |last=Western |first=Robert |title=The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway OL113 |year=2001 |publisher=Oakwood Press |location=Usk |isbn=978-0-85361-564-4 |ref=harv }}
{{refend}}Further reading{{refbegin}}- {{cite journal |last=Anderson |first=Paul |editor1-first=Chris |editor1-last=Hawkins |date=April 2002 |title=Dog in the Manger? The Track of the Ironmasters |journal=British Railways Illustrated |volume=11| issue= 7 |publisher=Irwell Press Ltd |location= Clophill |issn= |ref=harv }}
- {{cite book |last=Bairstow |first=Martin |title=Railways In The Lake District |year=1995 |publisher=Martin Bairstow |location= |isbn=978-1-871944-11-2 |ref=harv }}
- {{cite book |title=Rails through Lakeland: An Illustrated History of the Workington-Cockermouth-Keswick-Penrith Railway 1847-1972 |last=Bowtell |first=Harold D. |year=1989 |publisher=Silverling Publishing Ltd |location=Wyre |isbn=978-0-947971-26-7 |ref=harv }}
- {{IanAllan-PreGroup-Atlas1998}}
- {{cite book |last=Joy |first=David |title=Lake Counties (Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain) |year=1983 |publisher=David and Charles |location=Newton Abbot |isbn=978-0-946537-02-0 |ref=harv }}
- {{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=Marshall |first=John |title=Forgotten Railways: North West England |year=1981 |publisher=David and Charles |location=Newton Abbot |isbn=978-0-7153-8003-1 |ref=harv }}
- {{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Paul|last2=Turner|first2=Keith|title=Railway Atlas Then and Now|year=2012|publisher=Ian Allan Publishing |location=Shepperton|isbn=978-0-7110-3695-6 |ref=harv }}
{{refend}}See also- {{Portal|Cumbria}}
- Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway
External links- [https://www.railscot.co.uk/Cockermouth_and_Workington_Railway/index.php Map of the line with photos] in RAILSCOT
- The station on an OS map surveyed in 1864 in National Library of Scotland
- The station as a goods station on an OS map surveyed in 1898 in National Library of Scotland
- The station as a goods station on an OS map surveyed in 1947 in National Library of Scotland
- The station in Rail Map Online
- The railways of Cumbria in Cumbrian Railways Association
- Photos of Cumbrian railways in Cumbrian Railways Association
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160322115319/http://cumbrianrailways.org.uk/Railways_of_Cumbria.php The railways of Cumbria] in Railways_of_Cumbria
- Cumbrian Industrial History in Cumbria Industrial History Society
- Local history of the CKPR route in Cockermouth
- The line's and station's Engineer's Line References in Railway Codes
- A video tour-de-force of the region's closed lines in Cumbria Film Archive
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