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Carlisle, in North West England, formed the focus for a number of railway routes because of the geography of the area. At first each railway company had its own passenger and goods station, but in 1847 passenger terminal facilities were concentrated at Citadel station, which is in use today.
Carlisle railway station, or Carlisle Citadel, is a Grade II* listed [1] railway station serving the cathedral city of Carlisle, Cumbria, England. It is on the West Coast Main Line , 102 miles (164 km) south-east of Glasgow Central and 299 miles (481 km) north north-west of London Euston .
The station was opened on 30 December 1844 by the Maryport and Carlisle Railway. It replaced Carlisle Water Street station, which opened a year earlier. The station closed on 17 March 1849 [1] when all of the trains were diverted to Carlisle London Road. [2]
This time the committee decided that the Silloth line was insufficiently close to the Maryport line to be regarded as a competitor: [42] the bill authorising the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Company with capital of £75,000 for the railway and £80,000 for the dock received its royal assent on 16 July 1855, becoming the Carlisle ...
The route of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway in 1846. The Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (L&CR) was a main line railway opened between those cities in 1846. With its Scottish counterpart, the Caledonian Railway, the Company launched the first continuous railway connection between the English railway network and the emerging network in central Scotland.
The Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway was a railway company in Scotland, which constructed the line from near Cumnock to Gretna Junction, forming the route from Glasgow to Carlisle via Dumfries, in association with other lines. Its promoters hoped it would form the only railway between central Scotland and England, but it lost out to rival ...
At one time seven companies used Carlisle Citadel railway station. Before the building of the Citadel railway station the city had several other railway stations, including London Road railway station. Carlisle had the largest railway marshalling yard in Europe, Kingmoor, which, reduced in size, is operational and used by railfreight companies.
The Settle–Carlisle line (also known as the Settle and Carlisle (S&C)) is a 73-mile-long (117 km) main railway line in northern England. The route, which crosses the remote, scenic regions of the Yorkshire Dales and the North Pennines, runs between Settle Junction, on the Leeds–Morecambe line, and Carlisle, near the English-Scottish borders.