St Bees
Location type
StationName and dates
St BeesStation code: SBS National Rail
Opened on the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway.
Open on the Cumbrian Coast Railway.
| Nearby stations Woodend Egremont Nethertown Moor Row [Possible station] Cleator Moor West Cleator Moor East Corkickle Corkickle Newtown Cleator Moor [1st] Whitehaven [1st] Braystones Whitehaven Beckermet Frizington | Quarry Bigrigg Goods Gillfoot Quarry Woodhouse Colliery Barrowmouth Gypsum Mine Croft Pit [Coal] Mirehouse Junction Barrowmouth Alabaster Works Corkickle Brake Cleator Moor Junction Corkickle No 2 Junction Beckermet Mines Junction Keekle Viaduct Haig Colliery Cleator Moor Iron Works |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| /09/1996 | Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway Storm damage to the coastal defences south of St Bees leads to closure of the line for a week. The sandstone seawall was washed away at three locations. |
| /05/1997 | Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway Replacement of the coastal defences south of St Bees which were damaged in 1996. |
News items
| 30/08/2012 | Train derails in Cumbria after landslide [Guardian] |
