Place Abbey Town Grid reference NY174508 Platforms in use 1 | Area Allerdale Pre-grouping North British Railway | |
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Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway 22 August 1856 Station opened as Abbey Original company Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway Similar Black Dyke Halt railway st, Bromfield (Cumbria) railway st, Cumberland and Westmorl, Curthwaite railway station, Arlecdon railway station | ||
Abbey Town railway station was on the branch line off the Solway Junction Railway in the English county of Cumberland (later Cumbria). The first station after Abbey Junction on the branch to Silloth on the Solway Firth, it served the village of Abbey Town. The station closed with the line to Silloth in 1964.
History
Opened as Abbey by the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway in 1856, then renamed Abbey Town by the North British Railway in 1889, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station closed on 7 September 1964.
References
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