Silloth Railway Station

Silloth was the terminus of the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway, a branch railway from Carlisle, England. The town, dock and station at Silloth were built on a greenfield site after the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Act (1855) was passed. The railway provision grew with the dock and its later additions. The station was opened in 1856 and closed by the Beeching axe on 7 September 1964, when it had been estimated in 1962 that the line was losing £23, 500 a year and rising, staff costs had been pared to the bone and an imminent track bill of £32, 500 was to be faced. ServicesSample timetables along the branch show typical routine patterns. Unfortunately they are undated: the first does not show, suggesting it is after 1 September 1921, nor does it mention the North British, so it may be 1923-1932, when the branch to closed the second matches Bradshaw in 1922 the third is from British Railways days. The Winter 1962 /3 timetable shows eight trains each way, Monday to Saturday, with a Saturday extra, as well as three trains on Sundays. The table strikes the eye as being simpler than earlier timetables with: all trains 2nd Class only a much better service to no through trains beyond Carlisle had closed in 1955. The line was one of the first in the country to be dieselised, with one train a day remaining steam-hauled. The branch was atypical in that from the 1880s successive owners had fostered a vigorous trade in "Specials", the cornerstone of which was Carlisle to Silloth and back for a shilling. This was backed by encouraging outings to Silloth by a wide range of customers such as Sunday schools, Temperance clubs and racegoers. Many specials were both long and well-filled; the longest ever was not a trippers' train, but a celebration train for the reopening of Carr's flour mill in 1905.

Silloth was the terminus of the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway, a branch railway from Carlisle, England. The town, dock and station at Silloth were built on a greenfield site after the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Act (1855) was passed. The railway provision grew with the dock and its later additions. The station was opened in 1856 and closed by the Beeching axe on 7 September 1964, when it had been estimated in 1962 that the line was losing £23, 500 a year and rising, staff costs had been pared to the bone and an imminent track bill of £32, 500 was to be faced. ServicesSample timetables along the branch show typical routine patterns. Unfortunately they are undated: the first does not show, suggesting it is after 1 September 1921, nor does it mention the North British, so it may be 1923-1932, when the branch to closed the second matches Bradshaw in 1922 the third is from British Railways days. The Winter 1962 /3 timetable shows eight trains each way, Monday to Saturday, with a Saturday extra, as well as three trains on Sundays. The table strikes the eye as being simpler than earlier timetables with: all trains 2nd Class only a much better service to no through trains beyond Carlisle had closed in 1955. The line was one of the first in the country to be dieselised, with one train a day remaining steam-hauled. The branch was atypical in that from the 1880s successive owners had fostered a vigorous trade in "Specials", the cornerstone of which was Carlisle to Silloth and back for a shilling. This was backed by encouraging outings to Silloth by a wide range of customers such as Sunday schools, Temperance clubs and racegoers. Many specials were both long and well-filled; the longest ever was not a trippers' train, but a celebration train for the reopening of Carr's flour mill in 1905.