Workington Bridge railway station

Workington Bridge
Location
Place	Camerton
Area	Allerdale
Coordinates
Grid reference	NY007291
Operations
Original company	Cockermouth & Workington Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
28 April 1847	Opened
1 January 1951	Closed
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Cockermouth and Workington Railway
Legend
Cumbrian Coast Line Workington Main Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Workington Central Workington Bridge River Derwent (three crossings) Camerton River Derwent (two crossings) Marron Junction Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway River Marron Broughton Cross Brigham Maryport and Carlisle Railway Cockermouth (C&W) later Cockermouth goods station Cockermouth(CK&P) Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway

Workington Bridge railway station was situated next to the River Derwent on the Cockermouth and Workington Railway. It served the northeastern fringe of Workington, Cumbria, England.

History

The station opened on 28 April 1847 and closed completely on 1 January 1951.

Afterlife

By 2015 the station site was obliterated. The bridge which gave the station its name had been rebuilt and had assumed greater importance after it and several neighbours were condemned or destroyed in the 2009 Workington floods.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Camerton Line and station closed		London and North Western Railway Cockermouth & Workington Railway		Workington Main Line and station closed

See also

• Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway

External links

• Map of the line with photos, via RAILSCOT
• The station on an OS map surveyed in 1864, via National Library of Scotland
• The station on overlain OS maps surveyed from 1898, via National Library of Scotland
• The station on a 1948 OS Map, via npe maps
• The railways of Cumbria, via Cumbrian Railways Association
• Photos of Cumbrian railways, via Cumbrian Railways Association
• The railways of Cumbria, via Railways_of_Cumbria
• Cumbrian Industrial History, via Cumbria Industrial History Society
• Local history of the CKPR route, via Cockermouth
• The line's and station's Engineer's Line References, via railwaycodes.org.uk
• A video tour-de-force of the region's closed lines, via cumbriafilmarchive
• West Cumberland Railtour 5 September 1954, via sixbellsjunction