Copperas Hill railway station
| Copperas Hill | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Copperas Hill, near Harrington, Cumbria |
| Area | Copeland |
| Coordinates | 54°36′15″N 3°34′08″W / 54.6042°N 3.5688°WCoordinates: 54°36′15″N 3°34′08″W / 54.6042°N 3.5688°W |
| Grid reference | NX987243 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Lowca Light Railway |
| Post-grouping | Lowca Light Railway |
| Platforms | 1 |
| History | |
| 15 April 1912 | Workmen's service commenced |
| 2 June 1913 | Public passenger service |
| September 1921 | Last appeared in Bradshaw |
| 1 April 1929 | Workmen's service ended |
| 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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Copperas Hill railway station served the small clifftop community of Copperas Hill, south of Harrington in the former county of Cumberland, England, which is now part of Cumbria.
A public passenger service called at the station between 2 June 1913 and September 1921, though unadvertised workmen's trains had started in April 1912 and continued until April 1929, after which all forms of passenger service ceased.
By 1922 the service had settled down to three trains each way between Lowca and Workington Central, though, surprisingly in that age, trains had stopped calling at Copperas Hill in September 1921. There never was a public Sunday service.
The station was on the Harrington and Lowca Light Railway which connected with the Cleator & Workington Junction Railway (CWJR) at Rosehill Junction a short distance north of Copperas Hill and south of Harrington Village. Workmen's services to and from Copperas Hill variously ran from Moss Bay Cart Siding, Maryport (during the First World War), Workington Central and Seaton (Cumbria). Public passenger trains ran to these last two only.
The railway through Copperas Hill was first and foremost a mineral railway, with the short-lived workmen's and passenger services an afterthought. A waggonway had reached a chemical works at the station site in the first half of the nineteenth century, connecting Harrington harbour with John Pit and Hodgson Pit. Later developments, eventually ran northwards towards Workington and northeastwards to meet the Gilgarran Branch at Bain's Siding. The driving forces were coal at Lowca, fireclay and bricks (primarily aimed at lining furnaces at Workington's steelworks), coke and coking bi-products. Centrepiece for over fifty years was Harrington No. 10 Colliery which, confusingly, was not in Harrington, but in Lowca.
Between them these industrial concerns sustained the railway through Copperas Hill until final closure to all traffic in May 1973.
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