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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 .
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 Upperby TMD is a railway traction maintenance depot situated in Carlisle, England. The depot was formerly owned by DB Cargo UK , and was reopened by Locomotive Services Limited in 2023. The depot was originally of service to steam locomotives ( shed code 12A).
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]
A 1904 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (left) railways in the vicinity of Maryport (M&C in pink; LNWR in red). Two railway companies originally served the town: the Maryport and Carlisle Railway (M&C), which opened the line to Carlisle in stages between 1840 and 1845, and the Whitehaven Junction Railway which ran southwards to Workington and Whitehaven and opened in 1847.
The Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway opened its twenty-mile line in 1840 in Lancashire, England. The company was not commercially successful. When the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway opened in 1846, the L&PJR became part of a busy trunk railway. It had never had the money to provide substantial track equipment or proper signalling ...
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 ...
Original company: Port Carlisle Railway Company: Pre-grouping: North British Railway: Post-grouping: London and North Eastern Railway: Key dates; 22 June 1854: Opened to trains from Port Carlisle: 4 September 1856: Trains started running from Silloth: 1 July 1864: Station closed to passengers when trains were diverted to Carlisle Citadel [1] [2