Carlisle London Road railway station

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,[1] when trains could only run as far as Greenhead; not until 1838 was it possible to travel by rail all the way to Gateshead.

When the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (L&C) reached Carlisle in 1846 it used London Road station for nine months as a temporary expedient before the opening of Carlisle Citadel railway station.[1] The Maryport and Carlisle Railway (M&C) ran some trains to London Road as well as its own Carlisle station at Crown Street. In 1849, the L&C enforced an agreement the M&C had undertaken to sell Crown Street to allow full development of Citadel; the L&C then rapidly demolished Crown Street, and the M&C used London Road as its Carlisle terminus until 1851, after which its trains ran to Citadel.[1]

The Newcastle and Carlisle was amalgamated with the North Eastern Railway (NER) in 1862; the following year, passenger services to London Road ceased, the Newcastle service now running to Citadel. London Road continued to operate as a goods station for the NER.[1]

It was situated just off London Road, and trains of the Settle-Carlisle Line and the Tyne Valley Line still pass immediately to the south of the site of the former station.

Rail network in the Carlisle area
Waverley Route to Edinburgh
to Gretna Green
 
Gretna Junction
Scotland
England
Gretna
Longtown
Longtown MOD Depot
Floriston
Lyneside
Harker
Rockcliffe
Kingmoor Marshalling Yard
Brunthill
Stainton
Etterby Junction
Port Carlisle Junction
Carlisle Kingmoor TMD
Willowholme Junction
Port Carlisle Branch Junction
Caldew Junction
Carlisle Citadel
Carlisle South Junction
Rome Street Junction
London Road Junction
Currock Junction
Upperby Junction
Upperby TMD
Upperby Bridge Junction
Brisco
Carlisle London Road
Wreay
Petteril Bridge Junction
Settle–Carlisle line to Settle
Newcastle & Carlisle Railway
to Newcastle

References

  1. Joy, David (1983). The Lake Counties - (A Regional history of the railways of Great Britain). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 270. ISBN 0-946537-02-X.


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