Railways in Cumberland

Railway Routes in Cumberland

Derwent Junction: The Port Carlisle branch: The Silloth branch: Risehow siding/Flimby Station; Siddick Junction

Runaway Trains on the Penrith to Cockermouth railway

The Cockermouth Keswick & Penrith Railway] distinguished itself by a number of spectacular runaways. Here are six incidents, two of them westward from Troutbeck.

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The Solway Junction Railway

The link between the hematite ore mines of Cumberland and the furnaces of Lanarkshire avoiding the long detour via Carlisle, 1864, 25 mile line from the Caledonian Railway near Kirtlebridge to the Brayton Station near Aspatria on the Maryport and Carlisle Railway.

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Railway Tragedy at Brigham Bridge

Brigham Bow Bridge broken while being dismantled

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The Derwent branch with the private halt at Dovenby Hall

Dovenby Hall had its own private railway station, complete with its own Dovenby station house and a house for the attendant manning the level crossing over the minor road between Dovenby Craggs and Broughton.

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Railways and Religion in the Western Dales

Understand the lives of the thousands of migrant workers known as navigators or ‘navvies’ who came with their families to build the railway lines, many of which are long gone along with their once-vibrant stations.

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