Harrington
Location type
StationName and dates
Harrington (1851-)Station code: HRR National Rail
Where: North West England, England
Opened on the Whitehaven Junction Railway.
Open on the Cumbrian Coast Railway.
Description
This is a two platform station. The station retains a lattice footbridge of unusual design, either end of the girder crossing the tracks being supported by brick pillars. The main station building had been on the southbound platform, alongside today's carpark, with a smaller building on the northbound.
Harrington has low platforms and has gained some fame because of its 'Harrington Hump', a double sided ramp placed on the platform to raise its height - the trains stopping such that their doors align with this. This was the first location so fitted and other stations now feature these humps.
To the west of the station, alongside the railway served harbour, was a railway from Moss Bay Steel Works, to the north, and Harrington Iron Works, to the south. Bain's Tramway, later the core of the Harrington and Lowca Light Railway commenced by climbing from the harbour on its southward journey.
To the south of the station the line crosses the five arch Harrington Viaduct.
Tags
Station harrington hump06/04/2018
| Nearby stations Rosehill (Archer Street) Halt Harrington Church Road Halt Copperas Hill High Harrington Distington Micklam Workington Central Workington Lowca [2nd] Lowca [1st] Workington Bridge Gilgarran Halt Parton [WC and ER] Parton [WJR] Workington North | Harrington Harbour Harrington Iron Works Rosehill Junction Harrington Junction Moss Bay Iron and Steel Works Solway Colliery Derwent Iron and Steel Works Jane Pit Moorbanks Pit Distington Iron Works Workington Shed Wythemoor Colliery Bain^s Siding Harrington No 11 |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1885 | Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Opened from Harrington to Moss Bay. |
