Sellafield railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Sellafield
code = SEL

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manager = Northern Rail
locale = Sellafield
borough = Copeland
usage0405 = 0.208
usage0506 = 0.232
usage0607 = 0.259
platforms = 2
start = 1850

Sellafield railway station is a train station serving the nuclear facility of Sellafield in Cumbria, England. It is a stop on the scenic Cumbrian Coast Line. Some through trains to the Furness Line stop here. It is operated by Northern Rail who provide all passenger train services.

The station (which dates from 1850) is a busy freight location, as much of the nuclear waste for Sellafield's Thorp nuclear fuel reprocessing plant is carried by train here from the docks in Barrow-in-Furness or from rail-connected nuclear power stations elsewhere in the UK.

The station marks the end of the single line section from Whitehaven, which is operated using the Electric key token system. From here the line southwards towards Ravenglass and Barrow is double track.

The station was also the southern terminus of the former Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway line from Egremont from August 1869 until closure in March 1964 [Marshall, J (1981) "Forgotten Railways North-West England", David & Charles (Publishers) Ltd, Newton Abbott. ISBN 0 7153 8003 6; p.163] .

ervices

There are eight trains a day from the station each weekday to Whitehaven and Carlisle northbound and nine to Barrow southbound. Certain southbound trains continue on to Lancaster. There is no evening or Sunday service.

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