Abbey Junction railway station

Abbey Junction
General information
Location	Allerdale
Platforms	?
History
Original company	Solway Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Key dates
31 August 1870	Station opened as Abbey Junction
1 January 1917	Station closed
2 March 1919	Station reopened
1 September 1921	Station closed

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).

History

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.

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.

External links

• Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway
• The line with period photographs, via Holme St Cuthbert History Group

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Kirkbride Line and station closed		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