Sleightholme railway station

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Sleightholme
Location
Place 1 mile SW of Newton Arlosh
Area Allerdale
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Grid reference NY195536
Operations
Original company Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company
Platforms 1
History
September 1856 First appeared in Bradshaw, Saturdays Only
June 1857 Last appeared in Bradshaw[1]
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
Locale Cumbria
Dates of operation 1854 – 1964
Predecessor Carlisle and Silloth Bay
Railway and Dock Company
Successor London and North Eastern Railway
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in)
Silloth Battery Extension
Silloth Convalescent Home
Silloth Docks and Pier
Silloth
Causewayhead
Blackdyke Halt
Abbey Town
Solway Junction Railway
southbound
Abbey Junction
Sleightholme
Solway Junction Railway
northbound
Kirkbride
New Dykes Brow
Port Carlisle
Glasson
Drumburgh
Burgh-by-Sands
Kirkandrews
Waverley Line
northbound
Port Carlisle Junction
Carlisle Canal
West Coast Main Line
northbound
Carlisle Citadel
West Coast Main Line
southbound

Sleightholme was an early, short lived railway station near Newton Arlosh, Cumbria on the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company's branch from Carlisle to Silloth

The station served the small hamlet of Newton Arlosh and its rural surrounds, but was named after a farm which was nearer than the village.

Its timetable entries show trains calling on Saturdays Only. It only appeared in public timetables from September 1856 to June 1857.

By 1866 no trace of the station could be seen on OS maps.[2] It is possible that this was a "use it or lose it" stopping place where no platforms were built.

The line through the station site closed on 7 September 1964.[3]

History

The North British Railway (NBR) leased the line from the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company in 1862, and absorbed them in 1880, The NBR, in turn, was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923, passing to British Railways in 1948.

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Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Kirkbride
Line and station closed
  North British Railway
Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
  Abbeyholme
Line and station closed