Abbey Town
Location type
StationNames and dates
Abbey [Town] (1856-1889)Abbey Town (1889-1964)
Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.
Opened on the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock.Description
This was a single platform station with a single platform, just to the west of Abbey Junction [NBR]. It was located in the north of the village of Abbey Town.
There was a goods yard west of the platform and on the south side of the line. It was approached from the east.
A box opened in 1940 when the box at Abbey Junction [NBR] closed.
The station, box and line closed in 1964.
The station building is now a house.
Tags
Station
| Nearby stations Abbey Junction [CR] Abbey Junction [NBR] Sleightholme Black Dyke Halt Bromfield Causeway Head Leegate Low Row [Cumbria] Silloth Brayton Brookfield Kirkbride Wigton High Blaithwaite Whitrigg | Abbeyholme Junction Aikbank Junction Solway Chemical Works Border Counties Chemical Works Silloth Shed Brayton Shed Silloth Corn Mills Brayton Junction Kirkbride Junction The Battery Brayton Domain Colliery Wampool Viaduct Tourist/other Silloth New Dock Silloth Marshall Dock Silloth Bay |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| /08/1889 | Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Abbey renamed Abbey Town. |
| 07/09/1964 | Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Line closed to passengers. Abbey Town closed. |
