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{{Short description|Disused railway station in Cumbria, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2017}}
{{Infobox station
| name                = Copperas Hill
| status              = Disused
| image               = File:Copperas Hill station site geograph-3855414-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg
| caption			  = The site of the station in 2002
| borough             = Copperas Hill, near [[Harrington, Cumbria|Harrington]], [[Cumbria]], [[Borough of Copeland|Copeland]]
| country             = England
| coordinates         = {{coord|54.6042|-3.5688|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| grid_name           = [[Ordnance Survey National Grid|Grid reference]]
| grid_position       = {{gbmapscaled|NX987243|25|NX987243}}
| platforms           = 1<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.harringtonhistory.co.uk/Copperas.htm |title=Copperas Hill station, via ''Harrington History'' |access-date=29 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805182309/http://harringtonhistory.co.uk/Copperas.htm |archive-date=5 August 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| original            = [[Lowca Light Railway]]
| postgroup           = [[Lowca Light Railway]]
| years               = 15 April 1912
| events              = Workmen's service commenced
| years1              = 2 June 1913
| events1             = Public passenger service<ref>[http://www.cumbria-railways.co.uk/lowca_history.html 1913 Public Timetable, via ''Cumbrian Railways Association'']</ref>
| years2              = September 1921
| events2             = Last appeared in Bradshaw
| years3              = 1 April 1929
| events3             = Workmen's service ended{{sfn|Andrews|2001|pp=20-23}}
}}
{{Lowca Light Railway and Gilgarran Branch|collapse=yes}}

'''Copperas Hill railway station''' served the small clifftop community of Copperas Hill, south of [[Harrington, Cumbria|Harrington]] in the former [[county]] of [[Cumberland]], England, which is now part of [[Cumbria]].

A public passenger service called at the station between 2 June 1913 and September 1921, though unadvertised workmen's trains had started in April 1912 and continued until April 1929, after which all forms of passenger service ceased.

By 1922 the service had settled down to three trains each way between Lowca and Workington Central, though, surprisingly in that age, trains had stopped calling at Copperas Hill in September 1921. There never was a public Sunday service.{{sfn|Bradshaw|1985|p=595}}

The station was on the [[Lowca Light Railway|Harrington and Lowca Light Railway]] which connected with the [[Cleator & Workington Junction Railway]] (CWJR) at Rosehill Junction a short distance north of Copperas Hill and south of Harrington Village. Workmen's services to and from Copperas Hill variously ran from {{rws|Moss Bay Cart Siding}}, {{rws|Maryport}} (during the [[First World War]]), {{rws|Workington Central}} and {{rws|Seaton (Cumbria)}}. Public passenger trains ran to these last two only.

==Freight services==
The railway through Copperas Hill was first and foremost a mineral railway, with the short-lived workmen's and passenger services an afterthought. A waggonway had reached a chemical works at the station site in the first half of the nineteenth century, connecting Harrington harbour with John Pit and Hodgson Pit. Later developments, eventually ran northwards towards Workington and northeastwards to meet the [[Gilgarran Branch]] at Bain's Siding. The driving forces were coal at Lowca, fireclay and bricks (primarily aimed at lining furnaces at Workington's steelworks), coke and coking bi-products. Centrepiece for over fifty years was Harrington No. 10 Colliery which, confusingly, was not in Harrington, but in Lowca.

Between them these industrial concerns sustained the railway through Copperas Hill until final closure to all traffic in May 1973.

Although closed in 1921 the station was still in good shape in 1969.{{sfn|Anderson|2001|p=402}}

==A British record==
Copperas Hill station was short-lived, but the track immediately north of the station has its place in the railway record books. Its southbound uphill gradient of 1 in 17 was the steepest adhesion-worked British incline carrying a regular, timetabled passenger service.{{sfn|McGowan Gradon|2004|loc=P. 30, Note 2}}{{sfn|Robinson|1985|p=66}}{{sfn|Robinson|2002|p=27}}

==Afterlife==
The track through the station site was lifted by the end of 1973. The trackbed now forms part of the Cumbrian Way.

{{Disused Rail Start}}
{{Rail line
|previous={{rws|Rose Hill Platform}}<br /><small>Line and station closed</small>
|next={{rws|Micklam}}<br /><small>Line and station closed</small>
|route=[[Lowca Light Railway]]
|col={{LNWR colour}} }}
{{s-end}}

==See also==
* [[Gilgarran Branch]]
* [[Cleator and Workington Junction Railway]]

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

==Sources==
{{refbegin}}
*{{cite journal |last1=Andrews |first1=Dr Michael |editor1-first=Michael |editor1-last=Peascod |date=May 2001 |title=The Harrington and Lowca Light Railway |journal=Cumbrian Railways |volume=7| issue= 2 |publisher=Cumbrian Railways Association |location=[[Pinner]] |issn=1466-6812 }}
* {{Bradshaw-1922July}}
* {{cite book |last=McGowan Gradon |first=W. |title=The Track of the Ironmasters: A History of the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway |year=2004 |orig-year=1952 |publisher=Cumbrian Railways Association |location=[[Grange-over-Sands]] |isbn=978-0-9540232-2-5 }}
* {{cite book |last=Robinson |first=Peter W. |title=Railways of Cumbria |year=1985 |publisher=Dalesman Books |location=[[Clapham, North Yorkshire]] |isbn=978-0-85206-815-1 }}
* {{cite book |last=Robinson |first=Peter W. |title=Cumbria's Lost Railways |year=2002 |publisher=Stenlake Publishing |location=[[Catrine]] |isbn=978-1-84033-205-6 }}
{{refend}}

==Further reading==
{{refbegin}}
*{{cite journal |last=Anderson |first=Paul |editor1-first=Chris |editor1-last=Hawkins |date=June 2001 |title=The dog's got your description |journal=[[British Railways Illustrated]] |volume=10| issue= 9 |publisher=Irwell Press Ltd |location=[[Clophill]] |issn=0961-8244 }}
*{{cite journal |last=Anderson |first=Paul |editor1-first=Chris |editor1-last=Hawkins |date=April 2002 |title=Dog in the Manger? The Track of the Ironmasters |journal=[[British Railways Illustrated]] |volume=11| issue=7 |publisher=Irwell Press Ltd |location=[[Clophill]] |issn=0961-8244 }}
* {{cite book |last=Bairstow |first=Martin |title=Railways In The Lake District |year=1995 |publisher=Martin Bairstow |isbn=978-1-871944-11-2 }}
* {{Croughton-PrivateStations}}
* {{cite book |last=Haynes|first=James Allen|title=Cleator & Workington Junction Railway Working Time Table|date=April 1920|publisher=[[Cleator and Workington Junction Railway]]|location=Central Station, Workington}}
*{{cite journal |last1=Jackson |first1=Stanley |last2=Sisson |first2=Norman |last3=Haywood |first3=T.R. |editor1-first=Michael |editor1-last=Peascod |date=August 1982 |title=The Cleator and Workington Junction Railway |journal=Cumbrian Railways |volume=2| issue= 11 |publisher=Cumbrian Railways Association |location=[[Pinner]] |issn=1466-6812 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Jackson |first1=Stanley |last2=Sisson |first2=Norman |last3=Haywood |first3=T.R. |editor1-first=Michael |editor1-last=Peascod |date=October 1982 |title=The Cleator and Workington Junction Railway |journal=Cumbrian Railways |volume=2| issue= 12 |publisher=Cumbrian Railways Association |location=[[Pinner]] |issn=1466-6812 }}
* {{cite book |last=Joy |first=David |title=Railways of the Lake Counties |year=1973 |publisher=Dalesman Publishing Co |location=[[Clapham, North Yorkshire]] |isbn=978-0-85206-200-5 }}
*{{cite journal |last=News |first=Notes and |editor1-first=J.N. |editor1-last=Slater |date=August 1973 |title=Lowca Light Railway Closes |journal=[[The Railway Magazine]] |volume=119| issue=868 |publisher=Tothill Press Limited |location=[[London]] |issn=0033-8923 }}
* {{cite book |last=Quayle |first=Howard |title=Whitehaven: The Railways and Waggonways of a Unique Cumberland Port |year=2007 |publisher=Cumbrian Railways Association |location=[[Pinner]] |isbn=978-0-9540232-5-6 }}
* {{Quick-Stations}}
* {{cite book |last1=Smith|first1=Paul|last2=Turner|first2=Keith|title=Railway Atlas Then and Now|year=2012|publisher=[[Ian Allan Publishing]] |location=[[Shepperton]] |isbn=978-0-7110-3695-6 }}
* {{cite book |last=Suggitt |first=Gordon |title=Lost Railways of Cumbria (Railway Series) |year=2008 |publisher=Countryside Books |location=[[Newbury, Berkshire]] |isbn=978-1-84674-107-4 }}
*{{cite journal |last=Webb |first=David R. |editor1-first=B.W.C. |editor1-last=Cooke |date=October 1964 |title=Between the Solway and Sellafield: Part Two |journal=[[The Railway Magazine]] |volume=110| issue= 762 |publisher=Tothill Press Limited |location=[[London]] |issn=0033-8923 }}
* {{cite book |title=British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas And Gazetteer|orig-year=1958 |year=1997 |publisher=[[Ian Allan Publishing]] |location=[[Shepperton]] | isbn=978-0-7110-0320-0 }}
* {{Jowett-Atlas}}
* {{cite book |last=Joy |first=David |title=Lake Counties (Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain) |year=1983 |publisher=[[David & Charles]] |location=[[Newton Abbot]] |isbn=978-0-946537-02-0 }}
* {{cite book |last=Marshall |first=John |title=Forgotten Railways: North West England |year=1981 |publisher=[[David & Charles]] |location=[[Newton Abbot]] |isbn=978-0-7153-8003-1 }}
*{{cite journal |last=Webb |first=David R. |editor1-first=B.W.C. |editor1-last=Cooke |date=September 1964 |title=Between the Solway and Sellafield: Part One |journal=[[The Railway Magazine]] |volume=110| issue= 761 |publisher=Tothill Press Limited |location=[[London]] |issn=0033-8923 }}
{{refend}}

==External links==
* [http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=54.5861&lon=-3.5733&layers=172 The closed station on an inter-war OS map] ''National Library of Scotland''
* [http://www.RailMapOnline.com/UKIEMap.php?lat=54.60401&lng=-3.56807 The station] ''Rail Map Online''
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/12a_kingmoor_klickr/5757868066 Latterday steam at Lowca] ''flickr''
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/12a_kingmoor_klickr/5757870378 Latterday steam at Lowca] ''flickr''
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/russell_w_b/sets/72157603792487742/ Industrial relics at Lowca] ''flickr''
* [http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/elrs/_mileages/h/hat.shtm The line] ''railwaycodes''
* [https://haigpit.wordpress.com/harrington-collieries/ The Harrington collieries] ''Haig Pit Mining Museum''

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