Corkickle railway station
Corkickle 
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| Location | |
| Place | Whitehaven |
| Local authority | Copeland |
| Grid reference | NX977174 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CKL |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 29,294 |
| 2012/13 |
30,066 |
| 2013/14 |
31,312 |
| 2014/15 |
40,522 |
| 2015/16 |
43,580 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Corkickle from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Corkickle Railway Station serves the Whitehaven suburb of Corkickle in Cumbria, England. The railway station is a request stop on the scenic Cumbrian Coast Line 42 miles (68 km) south west of Carlisle. The station opened in 1855 and is at the southern end of the 3,999-foot (1,219 m) tunnel from Whitehaven railway station. At times it was known as 'Whitehaven Corkickle' station.
It is operated by Northern who provide all passenger train services.
The single platform station has kept its main building, but this is now in private residential use. Shelters and train information boards are sited near the main entrance, which has step-free access from the approach road. There are timetable posters and a telephone to provide train running information.
Monday to Saturdays there is an irregular service (hourly for parts of the day, less frequent at other times) northbound to Carlisle and southbound to Barrow-in-Furness. There are no trains after 20.00 on Mondays-Saturdays and no Sunday service.
In 1881 the Corkickle Brake, an inclined wagonway 525 yards (480 m) in length and with gradients of between 1 in 5.2 and 1 in 6.6 was built from the Furness Railway main line, a short distance to the south of Corkickle station, to the Earl of Lonsdale's Croft Pit. The 'brake' closed in 1931 due to the worsening financial situation of the colliery's owners, Lonsdale's Whitehaven Colliery Co. In May 1955, the incline was re-opened, this time to serve the factory of Marchon Products - a subsidiary of Albright and Wilson - at Kells. It was used mainly to haul rail tanker wagons containing sulphuric acid from the main line - by now in the ownership of British Railways - to the Marchon factory. The Corkickle Brake closed for good on 31 October 1986 and the task of transporting the acid and other chemicals was taken over by road tankers.
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