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Abbey Junction railway station was the railway junction where the branch line to Silloth on the Solway Firth divided from the Solway Junction Railway in the English county of Cumberland (later Cumbria).[1]

Abbey Junction
The station site years after closure
General information
Location	Abbey Town, Allerdale England
Platforms	?
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Solway Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
31 August 1870	Station opened as Abbey Junction
1 January 1917	Closed
2 March 1919	Reopened
1 September 1921	Closed

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 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 Carlisle West Coast Main Line southbound│northbound

History

A station on the site was opened as Abbeyholme by the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway in 1856, and was then renamed Abbey Junction by the North British Railway in 1870. It closed in 1921.

A parallel station on the site was opened as Abbey Junction by the Maryport and Carlisle Railway. It closed briefly from 1917 to 1919 then permanently in 1921.

The closure of the stations was linked to the closure of the Solway viaduct.

References

Sources

External links

• The station on a navigable Edwardian 6" OS map, via National Library of Scotland
• Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway
• The line with period photographs, via Holme St Cuthbert History Group (archive copy)
• The station via Rail Map Online

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Sleightholme From Kirkbride		North British Railway Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway		Abbey Town Line and station closed
Whitrigg Line and station closed		Caledonian Railway Solway Junction Railway		Bromfield Line and station closed

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