Yeathouse railway station
| Yeathouse | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Place | Yeathouse, Frizington |
| Area | Copeland |
| Coordinates | 54°32′15″N 3°28′47″W / 54.5374°N 3.4797°WCoordinates: 54°32′15″N 3°28′47″W / 54.5374°N 3.4797°W |
| Grid reference | NY043167 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway |
| Pre-grouping | LNWR & FR Joint Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| History | |
| 11 June 1872 | Opened, replacing Eskett |
| 13 April 1931 | Closed |
| 11 March 1940 | Reopened for 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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Yeathouse railway station was a later addition to the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway. It served the communities of Yeathouse and Eskett, near Frizington, Cumbria, England.
The line was one of the fruits of the rapid industrialisation of West Cumberland in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Eskett station opened to passengers with the line from Moor Row to Rowrah on 12 February 1864. The section of line through the station suffered subsidence problems so severe that the company built a deviation line to an alignment curving sharply and steeply to the west, including a new passenger station at Yeathouse. When the deviation and new station opened on 11 June 1872 the old alignment was severed north of Eskett station, which was converted to a goods depot. It remained as such until final closure in 1931.
The deviation made the line even more difficult to work for the rest of its existence.
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 Yeathouse. Mineral traffic was also generated locally from the quarries and mines such as Yeathouse Quarry workings on a branch heading southeast immediately north of Yeathouse station.
In 1922 seven all stations passenger trains called at Yeathouse 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.
Yeathouse station's owning Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont company was taken over by the LNWR and Furness Railway in 1879 as a Joint Line, whereafter passenger traffic through the station was usually worked by the LNWR.
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