RAILSCOT | Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway

Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway

Introduction

This line is closed. There are plans to re-open the line.

Dates

26/10/1864	Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway Opened to goods.
02/01/1865	Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway Opened to passengers.
03/01/1955	Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway DMUs introduced.
01/07/1964	Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway Freight withdrawn.
18/04/1966	Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway Keswick becomes a terminus as line to west is closed.
04/03/1972	Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway Keswick to Penrith closed completely.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

Cockermouth Junction

This was the junction between the Cockermouth and Workington Railway of 1847 and the later Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway of 1865.
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Cockermouth and Workington Railway

Cockermouth [2nd]

This was a four platform station in the south of Cockermouth.
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Embleton

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Station House at Embleton, between Bassenthwaite Lake and Cockermouth, has long outlived the little single platform station which closed in 1958, ...
Mark Bartlett 01/12/2021

In addition to the old station house at Embleton, further down the route towards Bassenthwaite and Keswick this old crossing keeper's cottage also ...
Mark Bartlett 01/12/2021

Embleton looking east. The railway is now a road. ...
Ewan Crawford 27/09/2006

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Bassenthwaite Lake

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The forecourt of the Orient Express cafe at Bassenthwaite Lake station. Station House on the left has been lived in since the line closure in 1966 but ...
Mark Bartlett 01/12/2021

First appearances can be deceptive with the Orient Express train at Bassenthwaite Lake station. Although in the film the driving wheels and valve gear ...
Mark Bartlett 01/12/2021

Although the station house at Bassenthwaite Lake survived the 1966 closure the station itself fell into dereliction. Very recently the site has been ...
Mark Bartlett 01/12/2021

This representation of a French 4-8-2 (241) locomotive, and three dining coaches, were specially constructed for Kenneth Branagh's film of 'Murder on ...
Mark Bartlett 01/12/2021

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Braithwaite

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Braithwaite station, a single platform with no passing loop, closed with the line to Cockermouth in 1966 and is seen here in residential use fifty ...
Mark Bartlett 01/12/2021

The station is now a private house. View looks to Keswick. ...
Ewan Crawford 27/09/2006

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This station was in the north of the town of Keswick and had three canopied through platforms. The station adjoined the Keswick Hotel, immediately to the south. The station closed in 1972 but the westbound platform and its canopy remain.
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The frontage of the old station at Keswick at dusk on 1st December 2021. The connecting corridor to the adjacent hotel 11717 for railway ...
Mark Bartlett 01/12/2021

The former station at Keswick, looking east in 1999. I was interested to read recently about reinstating the bowstring bridges on the trackbed trails. ...
Bill Roberton //1999

A pristine Derby Lightweight DMU is about to leave Keswick for Workington on 9 April 1955. DMUs were still a novelty at that time, and had only ...
Colin Kirkwood 09/04/1955

A rather stylish maintenance boundary post on Station Road, Keswick, in May 2012. Fitz Park can be seen behind the post. Two hours free parking is ...
Ken Strachan 14/05/2012

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Threlkeld

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This girder bridge over the River Greta is not particularly attractive, but its setting is drop dead gorgeous. The bridge is West of Threlkeld - this ...
Ken Strachan 06/08/2023

A nice view, looking towards Penrith at Threlkeld; but it's hard to tell where the CK&P crossed (about 18 feet beneath) the A66. It is recommended ...
Ken Strachan 06/08/2023

This rusty steel gubbins would appear to be a loading chute from the Quarry Railway to standard gauge wagons below. I think its a fair bet that the ...
Ken Strachan 06/08/2023

Threlkeld looking east to Penrith. ...
Ewan Crawford 27/09/2006

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Troutbeck

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The station at Troutbeck closed on 6th March 1972 and is now a private residence. It has been extended across the trackbed but is partly screened from ...
Mark Bartlett 21/10/2019

View looks to Keswick. The old island platform was off to the left. The goods yard is in rather better shape including this building. ...
Ewan Crawford 27/09/2006

The station house at Troutbeck in 2006. View looks east. The goods yard is straight ahead and the island platform was off to the right beyond the ...
Ewan Crawford 27/09/2006

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Penruddock

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Penruddock looking west. Sadly the station house still stood until very recently - still standing as the housing development took place. ...
Ewan Crawford 27/09/2006

Viaduct just east of Penruddock. View looks west. The viaduct is still BRB owned. ...
Ewan Crawford 27/09/2006

Penruddock looking west. Remains of goods loading bank. ...
Ewan Crawford 27/09/2006

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Blencow

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The abutments for the bridge at the east side of Blencow station are still in place but the deck was removed some time after the 1972 closure of the ...
Mark Bartlett 21/06/2019

Blencow station was actually just outside the village of Newbiggin but there was a station of that name not far away on the S&C and so Blencow was ...
Mark Bartlett 21/06/2019

Building by the entry to Blencow station approach, 27th September 2006. ...
Ewan Crawford 27/09/2006

Nice railway theme driveway markers! Looking west at Blencow. Goods yard to right and approach to station, now a house, straight ahead. ...
Ewan Crawford 27/09/2006

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Red Hills Junction

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See also
Eden Valley Railway

Penrith

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Lancaster and Carlisle Railway

350407 waits departure from Penrith North Lakes with a Glasgow Central to Manchester Airport service on 11th July 2019. ...
Alastair McLellan 11/07/2019

Woolly thinking on platform 2 at Penrith. I'm not convinced by the Cumbrian language on the gate in the background. ...
Ken Strachan 06/08/2023

The comunity garden on the down platform at Penrith in July 2019. ...
Alastair McLellan 11/07/2019

A TPE 350 EMU heads south over the M6 Motorway at Penrith with a Glasgow to Manchester Airport service on 20th October 2019. ...
Mark Bartlett 20/10/2019

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