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Cockermouth railway station

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Place
  
Cockermouth

18 April 1966
  
Closed

Area
  
Allerdale

Platforms in use
  
2

Cockermouth railway station

Pre-grouping
  
London and North Western Railway

Post-grouping
  
London Midland and Scottish Railway

2 January 1865
  
Opened (Replacing older station)

Address
  
Cockermouth CA13 0DY, United Kingdom

Original company
  
Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway

Similar
  
Curthwaite railway station, Bromfield (Cumbria) railway st, Black Dyke Halt railway st, Cumberland and Westmorl, Brigham railway station

Cockermouth railway station was situated on the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway and served the town of Cockermouth, Cumbria, England.

The station opened to passenger traffic on 2 January 1865 and closed on 18 April 1966. The station was the second to be built in the town. The original Cockermouth & Workington Railway station closed to passengers when the CK&PR station opened on an altered alignment, though it remained in use as a goods station until 1964.

The later station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann. All traces of the station are now gone as the site is now occupied by The Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Base and the Cumbria Fire Service Headquarters. Running down the left hand side of The Fire Service Headquarters building is the old track bed, now a public walkway; there are original bridges and features surviving to this day.

References

Cockermouth railway station Wikipedia