Abbey Town railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Abbey Town


caption =
locale = Abbey Town
borough = Cumberland
line = Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
manager =
owner = London and North Western Railway
platforms = ?
latitude =
longitude =
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years = August 22 1856
events = Station opens as Abbey
years1 = August 1889
events1 = Renamed Abbey Town
years2 = September 7 1964
events2 = Station closes

Abbey Town railway station was a railway station 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 line to Silloth closed in 1964, and the station closed with it.

History

Opened as Abbey by the Carlisle and Silloth Bay in 1856, then renamed Abbey Town by the North British Railway in 1889, it became part of the London and North Western 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 the 7th September 1964.

References

*cite book|author=R.V.J.Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |year=1995 ISBN 1 85260 508 1

*cite book|author=A. Jowett, |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000 ISBN 0 906899 99 0

*Pictures of the station [http://www.cumbria-railways.co.uk/abbeytown_railway_station.html]

*Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway [http://www.cumbria-railways.co.uk/carlisle_silloth_bay_railway.html]

*Map of area's railways [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/hstchg/railway1.htm]