RAILSCOT | Rosehill (Archer Street) Halt

Station

Rosehill (Archer Street) Halt (1913-1926)

Opened on the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway.

This was a minimal single platform station on the west side of the line. It opened on the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway's Harrington Branch (later known as the Rosehill Branch) which connected Bain's Tramway to the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway. Rosehill Junction was just to the south and the station was built on the site of a former sand siding.

The station opened when the Harrington and Lowca Light Railway Act allowed the conversion of most of Bain's Tramway into a public railway.

This old mineral line had been used for workers' trains from 1911 run by the Workington Iron and Steel Company from Workington Central via the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway and Bain's Tramway to Harrington No 10 and Harrington No 11 collieries at Lowca.

This station was built on the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway, probably at the Workington Iron and Steel Company's expense as part of the Harrington and Lowca Light Railway.

Stations were opened on the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway at Harrington Church Road Halt, Rosehill (Archer Street) Halt and, on Bain's Tramway, Copperas Hill, Micklam and Lowca.

Nearby stations Harrington Copperas Hill Harrington Church Road Halt High Harrington Distington Micklam Lowca [2nd] Lowca [1st] Workington Central Workington Gilgarran Halt Workington Bridge Parton [WC and ER] Parton [WJR] Oatlands	Harrington Iron Works Rosehill Junction Harrington Harbour Harrington Junction Moss Bay Iron and Steel Works Solway Colliery Distington Iron Works Derwent Iron and Steel Works Jane Pit Moorbanks Pit Bain^s Siding Wythemoor Colliery Harrington No 11 Lowca Engine Shed
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.