New Dykes Brow railway station

New Dykes Brow was an early, short lived railway station near Fingland, Cumbria on the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company's branch from Carlisle to Silloth

New Dykes Brow
General information
Location	1 mile NW of Fingland, Cumberland England
Coordinates	54.9086°N 3.1850°W / 54.9086; -3.1850
Grid reference	NY241577
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company
Key dates
November 1856	First appeared in Bradshaw, Saturdays Only
October 1866	Last appeared in Bradshaw[1]

v t e Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
Overview Locale Cumbria Dates of operation 1854–1964 Predecessor Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway Successor NBR Technical Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Legend
Silloth Battery Extension Silloth Convalescent Home Silloth Docks and Pier Silloth Causewayhead Blackdyke Halt Abbey Town Solway Junction Railway southbound Sleightholme Abbey Junction Solway Junction Railway northbound Kirkbride New Dykes Brow Port Carlisle Glasson Drumburgh Burgh-by-Sands Kirkandrews Waverley Line northbound Port Carlisle Junction Carlisle Canal Carlisle West Coast Main Line southbound│northbound

The station served the small hamlet of Fingland and its rural surrounds, though its name is unclear from this distance in time.

Its timetable entries show trains calling on Saturdays only (Market Day).^[2] It only appeared in public timetables from November 1856 to October 1866.

In 1866 no evidence of the station could be seen on OS maps,.^[3] 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.^[4]

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.