Whitrigg railway station
Disused railway station in Cumbria, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Whitrigg was a railway station on the Bowness Moss which served Whitrigg, a hamlet in Cumbria on the English side of the Solway Firth. The station opened on 8 August 1870 by the Caledonian Railway on a line constructed from the Caledonian Railway Main Line at Kirtlebridge across the Glasgow South Western Line, then forming the Solway Junction Railway over the Solway Viaduct to Brayton. The line opened for freight on 13 September 1869.
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Whitrigg | |
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General information | |
Location | Whitrigg, Allerdale England |
Coordinates | 54.908174°N 3.212369°W / 54.908174; -3.212369 |
Grid reference | NY223577 |
Platforms | 1 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | Solway Junction Railway |
Pre-grouping | Caledonian Railway |
Key dates | |
1 October 1870[1] | Opened |
1 September 1917 | closed |
1920 | opened |
1 September 1921[2] | Station closed to all traffic |
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