Cleator Moor East railway station
| Cleator Moor East | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Cleator Moor |
| Area | Copeland |
| Coordinates | 54°31′31″N 3°31′41″W / 54.5254°N 3.5281°WCoordinates: 54°31′31″N 3°31′41″W / 54.5254°N 3.5281°W |
| Grid reference | NY011155 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway |
| Pre-grouping | LNWR & FR Joint Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| History | |
| 1866 | Opened as "Cleator Moor", replaced original station |
| 2 June 1924 | Renamed "Cleator Moor East" |
| 13 April 1931 | Closed to passengers |
| 11 March 1940 | Reopened to workmen's trains |
| 8 April 1940 | Closed |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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Cleator Moor has had three passenger stations:
This article is about Cleator Moor East.
Cleator Moor East railway station was the second station built by the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway in the growing industrial town of Cleator Moor, Cumbria, England.
The line was one of the fruits of the rapid industrialisation of West Cumberland in the second half of the nineteenth century. The original Cleator Moor station opened to passengers on 1 July 1857 on the line being developed from Moor Row to Rowrah.
Subsidence led the company to build a deviation line which curved round the west side of the original station and the growing settlement, in a similar manner to what it was forced to do at Eskett a few miles to the east. They built a passenger station on the deviation line - known locally as "The Bowthorn Line" - which would go on to be called Cleator Moor East.
When the deviation line and station opened in 1866 the original station was closed to passengers and became "Cleator Moor Goods Depot." It remained open for goods traffic until the 1950s.
Whilst some Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway (WCER) mineral, goods and passenger traffic to and from Rowrah passed north along the line to Marron Junction, the greater part arrived and left southwards towards Moor Row and therefore passed through Cleator Moor. Mineral traffic was also generated locally from the quarries and mines such as the Iron Works within sight of the station.
In 1922 seven all stations passenger trains called at Cleator Moor East in each direction, with an extra on Whitehaven Market Day. Four were Rowrah to Whitehaven services, the other three plied a long, circuitous route between Workington Main and Whitehaven via Camerton, Marron Junction, Ullock, Rowrah and Moor Row.
Cleator Moor East station's owning Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont company was taken over by the LNWR and Furness Railway in 1879 as a Joint Line, whereafter the section through the station was usually worked by the LNWR.
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