RAILSCOT | Abbeyholme Junction

Junction

Abbeyholme Junction (1869-1921)

Opened on the Solway Junction Railway.

Nearby stations Abbey Junction [NBR] Abbey Junction [CR] Abbey Town Sleightholme Black Dyke Halt Bromfield Causeway Head Leegate Low Row [Cumbria] Kirkbride Brookfield Silloth Whitrigg Wigton Brayton	Kirkbride Junction Aikbank Junction Solway Chemical Works Border Counties Chemical Works Wampool Viaduct Silloth Shed Silloth Corn Mills Britishg Sidac Factory Brayton Shed The Battery Brayton Junction Brayton Domain Colliery Tourist/other Silloth New Dock Silloth Marshall Dock Silloth Bay
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

/ /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.
/ /1867	Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Running powers for the Caledonian Railway, who would work the Solway Junction Railway, obtained for the North British Railway owned line between Kirkbride Junction and Abbeyholme Junction.
/ /1882	Carlisle and Port Carlisle Railway and Dock Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Caledonian Railway granted running powers between Abbeyholme Junction and Canal Yard (where connection was made with the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway) over the North British Railway controlled lines.
/ /1882	Solway Junction Railway North British Railway gains running powers over the Solway line from Abbeyholme Junction and Brayton Junction