Port Carlisle

Historically within Cumberland, its original name was Fisher's Cross, and the port was built in 1819. Four years later, a canal link was added to take goods to Carlisle Basin. The canal was closed in 1853 and Port Carlisle silted up.

The canal basin at Carlisle and parts of the canal were filled in by the Port Carlisle Railway Company who constructed a railway that started passenger services in 1854, discontinuing them two years later when the railway to Silloth opened. As a cheap alternative, a horse-drawn service was provided in 1856 between Drumburgh and Port Carlisle railway station for a number of years. In 1914 steam power was used and to try to avoid closure a steam railmotor called 'Flower of Yarrow' was built and this service to Port Carlisle railway station lasted until the branch was closed in 1932.[1]

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  Port Carlisle railway station remnants
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  Port Carlisle's main street
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  Port Carlisle Methodist chapel
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  Map of Port Carlisle

• List of places in Cumbria
• Listed buildings in Bowness

• Media related to Port Carlisle at Wikimedia Commons
• Cumbria County History Trust: Bowness-on-Solway (nb: provisional research only - see Talk page)
• Video footage of the harbour and canal dock