Abbey Town railway station

Abbey Town
Location of the former station (1991)
Location
Place	Abbey Town
Area	Allerdale
Operations
Original company	Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	1
History
22 August 1856	Station opens as Abbey
August 1889	Renamed Abbey Town
7 September 1964	Station closed
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Abbey Town railway station was a railway station on the branch line off the Solway Junction Railway in the English county of Cumberland (later Cumbria). The first station after Abbey Junction on the branch to Silloth on the Solway Firth, it served the village of Abbey Town. The station closed with the line to Silloth in 1964.

History

Opened as Abbey by the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway in 1856, then renamed Abbey Town by the North British Railway in 1889, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station closed on 7 September 1964.

References

• ISBN 1-85260-508-1
• ISBN 0-906899-99-0

External links

• Pictures of the station [1]
• Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway [2]
• Map of area's railways[3]
• Abbey Town station on navigable 1946 O. S. map

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Abbey Junction		North British Railway Silloth Branch		Black Dyke Halt