Place Plumpton Grid reference NY487370 Platforms in use 2 | Area Eden 17 December 1846 Opened | |
Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway Original company Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Similar Bromfield (Cumbria) railway st, Cumberland and Westmorl, Black Dyke Halt railway st, Curthwaite railway station | ||
Plumpton railway station in Hesket parish in what is now Cumbria but was then Cumberland in the north west of England, was situated on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (the West Coast Main Line) between Carlisle and Penrith. It served the village of Plumpton and the surrounding hamlets. The station opened on 17 December 1846, and closed on 31 May 1948.
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The station
The station was situated in the part of the village called Brockleymoor and had two platforms, a signal box, a station master's house and railway workers cottages. The relatively sizeable goods yard had a weighing machine, rane, coal yard and cattle pens. The station house and goods yard buildings remain as a pottery outlet, the platforms have been demolished and the line has been electrified and becomes triple tracked at this point for a short distance running towards Carlisle.
Stations on the line
The next station on the line towards Carlisle was Calthwaite and the preceding station was Penrith.