Leegate railway station

Leegate was a railway station on the Maryport and Carlisle Railway (M&CR) and served this rural district in Cumbria. The station was opened by the M&CR in 1848^[1] and lay in the Parish of Bromfield.^[2]

Leegate railway station
The site of the station in 2013
General information
Location	Allerdale England
Coordinates	54.79918°N 3.238507°W / 54.79918; -3.238507
Grid reference	NY20474561
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Maryport & Carlisle Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
2 February 1848	Opened
5 June 1950	Station closed to passengers
1964	Station closed to goods

History

Leegate station was opened by the Maryport & Carlisle Railway in 1848. At grouping in 1923 the M&CR became a part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. It was one of a number of lightly used intermediate stations on the M&C line closed to passenger traffic by the British Transport Commission in the years immediately after nationalisation of the British Railways network in 1948. Services ceased on 5 June 1950, though goods traffic continued to be handled here until 1964.

The main Carlisle-Maryport line (completed in 1845) remains open and forms part of the Cumbrian Coast Line between Carlisle and Barrow in Furness.

The station had two through platforms, with substantial station buildings and a signal box. No trace however remains of the station today.^[3]

References

Notes

1. Quick 2009, p. 244.
2. "Old Cumbria Gazetteer". Portsmouth University. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
3. Leegate station site in 2013. Thompson, Nigel, Geograph.org; Retrieved 2013-10-16

Sources

• Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.

Further reading

• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Brookfield Line open, station closed		Maryport and Carlisle Railway Main Line		Brayton Line open, station closed