| / /1836 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Survey by George Stephenson. |
| 12/07/1837 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Act passed. |
| 05/07/1840 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Opened between Maryport south quay and Arkleby pits, 7 miles. |
| 12/04/1841 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Line extended from Arkleby to Aspatria. |
| 10/05/1843 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Opened from Carlisle Water Lane / Bogfield (and junction the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway) to Wigton. |
| 02/12/1844 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Line extended from Aspatria to Low Row [Cumbria]. Brayton opened for Sir Wilfred Lawson MP of Brayton Hall. |
| 02/12/1844 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Extended from Wigton to Brookfield (termporary terminus). |
| 30/12/1844 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Carlisle Water Lane replaced by Carlisle Crown Street on a short Maryport owned branch which was accessed by reversal from the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway which the Maryport joined at Bog Junction. |
| 10/02/1845 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Completion of main line by opening from Low Row [Cumbria] to Brookfield (a temporary terminus which closed). |
| 01/09/1847 | Caledonian Railway
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Carlisle Citadel opened. The short Maryport and Carlisle Railway branch to Carlisle Crown Street is crossed, on the level, by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway on its approach to the new Carlisle Citadel. This approach had crossed the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway on the level too, just to the south east. |
| 01/10/1848 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Leased by George Hudson. |
| 17/03/1849 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway gains possession of Carlisle Crown Street and demolishes it. |
| 18/03/1849 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Trains terminate at Carlisle London Road. |
| 01/01/1850 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
George Hudson gives up control. |
| 01/11/1850 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
New directors appointed. |
| 31/12/1850 | Railway Clearing House
By this date, Ardrossan Railway, Caledonian Railway, Cockermouth and Workington Railway, Eastern Counties Railway, East Lincolnshire Railway, Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding Junction Railway, Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, Great Northern Railway, Huddersfield and Manchester Railway (London and North Western Railway), Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, Maryport and Carlisle Railway, North British Railway, Preston and Wyre Railway, Dock and Harbour, Shrewsbury and Chester Railway, South Staffordshire Railway, Stockton and Darlington Railway, Stockton and Hartlepool Railway, St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway, Stirling and Dunfermline Railway, Whitehaven Junction Railway and York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway join. |
| / /1851 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Arkleby closed. |
| 02/04/1851 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Agreement reached for access to Carlisle Citadel. On the same day the Maryport line makes first use of the station. Approach from Maryport was made via the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, on which a reversal was required, and a short Maryport owned curve opened in 1851. |
| 01/06/1851 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Carlisle Crown Street's old tracks attached to Carlisle Citadel by permission of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway and Caledonian Railway. |
| / /1852 | Carlisle Citadel Approach [1st] (Maryport and Carlisle Railway)
The Maryport and Carlisle Railway opened a curve (which crossed the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway on the level) to reach Crown Street Goods [MCR] and Carlisle Citadel, the new approach avoiding a reversal carried out between 1851 and 1852 to reach the station. The short Maryport curve from the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway to the London and North Western Railway closes. |
| 08/08/1853 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Connection from Forks Junction, west of Carlisle Bogfield, opened. (Carlisle Bogfield was between Rome Street Junction and Bog Junction.)
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| 01/09/1853 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Company agrees to pay £300 per annum for access to Carlisle Citadel. |
| / /1856 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Early in 1856 Crofton opened for the Brisco family at Crofton Hall. |
| / /1860 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
More harbour tracks and a new station at Maryport opened. |
| / /1861 | Caledonian Railway
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Agreement to enlarge Carlisle Citadel station, owned by the Caledonian Railway and Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. A joint committee is to be created which will include the Glasgow and South Western Railway, Maryport and Carlisle Railway and North British Railway. |
| / /1861 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Line doubled throughout (including Aspatria - the southbound track being new).
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| / /1864 | Solway Junction Railway
Act receives Royal assent for a line consisting to two parts: Kirtlebridge (Caledonian Railway) to Kirkbride Junction (Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock) and Abbeyholme Junction (Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock) to Brayton (Maryport and Carlisle Railway). The first part will cross the considerable Solway Viaduct between Scotland an England. The Act included an Annan Waterfoot Branch and a Port Carlisle Branch both of which were not built. |
| / /1865 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Running powers for the Caledonian Railway, who would work the Solway Junction Railway, obtained for the Maryport and Carlisle Railway between Brayton Junction and Brayton. |
| / /1866 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Line from Aspatria to Wigton via Mealsgate opened.
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| / /1867 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Derwent branch from Bulgill to Brigham on the Workington to Cockermouth line opened. |
| 13/09/1869 | Solway Junction Railway
Annan [Shawhill] to Brayton opened to minerals. Brayton Shed opened at Brayton with two roads, sidings and a turntable in the junction between the Solway Junction Railway and the Maryport and Carlisle Railway. |
| 16/09/1869 | Solway Junction Railway
Abbey Junction [CR] (Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock) to Brayton opened for goods (Maryport and Carlisle Railway). |
| 08/07/1877 | Carlisle Realignment (Maryport and Carlisle Railway)
(Or 7th.) New deviation of the approach to Carlisle Citadel for the Maryport and Carlisle Railway opened. Railway No 8. Currock Junction to Carlisle Citadel - opened due to the modifications to the goods avoiding lines through Carlisle. |
| / /1887 | Cleator and Workington Junction Railway
Opened from Workington to Linefoot on the Maryport and Carlisle Railway. |
| / /1921 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Wigton to Mealsgate closed to passengers.
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| / /1923 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Currock Shed (M&C) closed. Maryport Works closed.
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| / /1930 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Mealsgate line closed for passengers to Aspatria.
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| / /1935 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Bullgill to Brigham closed to passengers.
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| 15/12/1946 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Crofton closed to passengers.
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| 05/06/1950 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Curthwaite, Leegate, Brayton and Dearham Bridge closed.
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| /06/1951 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Cummersdale closed.
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| 07/02/1955 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
DMUs start to be used.
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| /03/1960 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Bulgill closed.
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| 27/09/1965 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Brayton closed to passengers. |
| /01/1998 | Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Aspatria signal box closed, unused for many years |
