Place Barrow in Furness Grid reference SD 218 719 1846 (1846) Opened Platforms in use 2 | Area Barrow in Furness Pre-grouping Furness Railway Original company Furness Railway | |
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway Similar Bromfield (Cumbria) railway st, Black Dyke Halt railway st, Cumberland and Westmorl, Arlecdon railway station, Curthwaite railway station | ||
Furness Abbey is a former railway station in the Barrow-in-Furness area of the Furness Peninsula, England.
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Context
Furness Abbey Station was situated at the southern end of the Furness Abbey complex. It served the nearby local attraction, the ruins of Furness Abbey, the Furness Abbey Hotel and the few houses and farms scattered about the general area. The Cistercian Way, which begins at Furness Abbey is a walking trail to Dalton-in-Furness made famous by the poet William Wordsworth.
History
The Furness Railway was authorised in 1844 to build a line which would link Kirkby-in-Furness with Dalton-in-Furness. The railway was extended in places and subsequently took over the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway and the Ulverston and Lancaster Railway. The station at Furness Abbey was opened in 1846 and began receiving passengers from further afield in 1862 (when the London and North Western Railway was directly linked). Passengers had already begun to travel from West Cumbria from 1865.
Services
Services stopped at Furness Abbey to allow passengers to use the Furness Abbey Hotel, owned by the railway company. All services north of Barrow had to travel back to Furness Abbey towards Dalton, where they reversed at Dalton Jcn and continued onto Askam.
The station was closed by British Railways shortly after nationalisation, on 25 September 1950.