Drumburgh
Location type
StationName and dates
Drumburgh (1856-1955)Opened on the Carlisle and Port Carlisle Railway and Dock.
Opened on the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock.
Description
This was an island platform junction station. It opened in 1856 when the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock line opened to Silloth, extending the Port Carlisle Dock and Railway line and leaving Port Carlisle and Glasson on a short branch.
The lines were single track, except for the loop round the station. There was a short siding to the west of the station, to the south of the junction itself and approached from the westbound loop line. There was a small station building. The signal box was located to the south of the station. It opened in 1894.
The Port Carlisle branch closed in 1932. The station closed in 1955, but the box remained in use. The Silloth line closed in 1964.
Little remains of the station today, except the trackbed. The station had been built on the route of the former Carlisle Canal, the remains of its embankments still remain to either side of the trackbed.
Tags
Station junctionAliases
Drumburgh Junction05/05/2019
| Nearby stations Glasson New Dykes Brow Port Carlisle Burgh-by-Sands Kirkbride Whitrigg Bowness Wylies Halt Eastriggs Rigg Kirkandrews Gretna Township Floriston Gretna Green Gretna Green [1st] | Port Carlisle Shed Wampool Viaduct Kirkbride Junction Solway Viaduct Gretna Site No 4 Kirtle Water Viaduct Eastriggs Ground Frame Nutberry Moss Peat Works Shawhill Junction Bone Manure Works [Grinsdale] Esk Viaduct [Cumbria] Tourist/other Eastriggs MOD Stanfield Farm Level Crossing Muirhouse Farm Level Crossing Rigg Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 22/08/1856 | Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Line opened. The service to Port Carlisle from Carlisle is stopped and a 'Dandy' introduced running from Port Carlisle to Drumburgh to connect with the Silloth trains. |
| / /1882 | Solway Junction Railway The Solway Junction Railway gains running powers over the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock from Kirkbride Junction to Drumburgh and over the Carlisle and Port Carlisle Railway and Dock from Drumburgh to Canal Junction [Carlisle] to meet the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. |
| / /1932 | Carlisle and Port Carlisle Railway and Dock Port Carlisle to Drumburgh (excluded) closed. |
Books
 An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways |
