Abbey Junction railway station

Abbey Junction railway station was the railway junction where the branch line to Silloth on the Solway Firth divided from the Solway Junction Railway in the English county of Cumberland (later Cumbria).

Abbey Junction
The station site years after closure
LocationAbbey Town, Allerdale
England
Platforms?
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companySolway Junction Railway
Pre-groupingCaledonian Railway
31 August 1870Station opened as Abbey Junction
1 January 1917Station closed
2 March 1919Station reopened
1 September 1921Station closed

History
A 1903 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (right) railways in the vicinity of Abbey Junction

A station on the site was opened as Abbeyholme by the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway in 1856, and was then renamed Abbey Junction by the North British Railway in 1870. It closed in 1921.

A parallel station on the site was opened as Abbey Junction by the Maryport and Carlisle Railway. It closed briefly from 1917 to 1919 then permanently in 1921.

The closure of the stations was linked to the closure of the Solway viaduct.

Extracts from Bradshaw's Guide, April 1910 showing the two lines which crossed at Abbey Junction, Cumberland

References
  • Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
  • Jowett, A. (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0.
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Sleightholme
From Kirkbride		   North British Railway
Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway		   Abbey Town
Line and station closed
Whitrigg
Line and station closed		   Caledonian Railway
Solway Junction Railway		   Bromfield
Line and station closed


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