Crown Street
Location type
StationName and dates
Crown Street (1844-1849)Opened on the Maryport and Carlisle Railway.
Description
A strange little terminus and branch, built 1844, giving the Maryport and Carlisle a terminus in Carlisle, not just the 1843 connection to the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. Approach from Maryport required a reversal on the Newcastle line. It replaced Water Lane.
It was to be crossed on the level in 1847 by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway approach to Carlisle Citadel.
The station closed in 1849 but the southern portion, from the LC south to the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, was retained to give the latter line access to Citadel.
The southern portion closed in 1862 when it was replaced by a new curve further east, owned by the North Eastern Railway, now the owners of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway.
The terminus was on the east side of Carlisle Citadel station, later absorbed as the station expanded.
Tags
Station terminusExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Carlisle Bogfield Carlisle London Road Carlisle Canal [Station] Port Carlisle Junction Cummersdale Scotby [NER] Scotby [MR] Brisco Parkhouse Halt Cumwhinton Harker Dalston Kirkandrews Wetheral | Crown Street Goods Carlisle South Junction Carlisle Signalling Centre Bog Goods High Wapping Sidings Bog Junction Rome Street Junction Currock Shed (M and CR) Cowans Sheldon Works Rome Street Gas Works Caldew Viaduct [Dentonholme South] St Nicholas Goods Forks Junction Carlisle Upperby Holding Sidings Caldew Viaduct [NER] |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 29/07/1865 | London and North Western Railway Land held at Carlisle Crown Street by the Caledonian Railway sold to the LNWR. |
Books
 A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The Lake Counties v. 14 (Regional Railway History) |  An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways |
