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The G&SWR and the North British Railway saw themselves as allies of the Midland Railway, and they aligned their operating facilities at Carlisle to that company. The G&SWR used new goods facilities and engine accommodation at Petteril, opposite London Road, from the beginning of 1875, but some through goods traffic from the Midland was ...
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 ...
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.
South Mountain Railway and Mining Company: South Mountain Railway and Mining Company: RDG: 1877 1891 Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway: South Shore Railroad: 1892 Southern Pennsylvania Iron and Railroad Company: PRR: 1869 1872 Southern Pennsylvania Railway and Mining Company: Southern Pennsylvania Railway and Mining Company: PRR: 1873 1954 ...
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]
Curthwaite station was opened by the Maryport & Carlisle Railway in 1843. [2] At grouping in 1923 the M&CR became a part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.It was closed by the British Transport Commission in 1950 (as an economy measure), two years after the railway system was nationalised.
The Maryport & Carlisle Railway (M&CR) was an English railway company formed in 1836 which built and operated a small but eventually highly profitable railway to connect Maryport and Carlisle in Cumberland, England. There were many small collieries in the area and efficient access to the harbour at Maryport was important.
Carlisle London Road railway station was the first to open in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. It was built as a terminus of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway and opened in 1836, [ 2 ] when trains could only run as far as Greenhead ; not until 1838 was it possible to travel by rail all the way to Gateshead .