Английская Википедия:Buckhill Colliery Halt railway station

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A 1904 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing railways in the vicinity of the halt

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Buckhill Colliery Halt railway station was an unadvertised halt for workers at Buckhill Colliery north east of Camerton, near Cockermouth in Cumberland (now in Cumbria), England.Шаблон:Sfn

Location

The halt is listed in the 1904 Railway Clearing House Handbook of Stations as "Buckhill Colliery".Шаблон:Sfn It appears in three authoritative works, but does not appear in Jowett's railway atlas, nor can it be identified on any Ordnance Survey Map, although the colliery and its connection to the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway's "Northern Extension" is plain to see on successive OS Maps.[1]Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

The standard work on the line makes many mentions of the pit, its opening, closing and traffic, but no reference to a halt at, or workmen's services to the colliery.Шаблон:Sfn

The company's 1920 Working Time Table lists the mine as a destination for mineral trains, but makes no mention of workmen's trains to or from it.Шаблон:Sfn

Opening and closure

The connection to the colliery opened with the line on 24 March 1887,Шаблон:Sfn but its passenger services and closure are unclear. As it was never publicly advertised standard works such as Bradshaw's Guide are silent. The pit closed in 1932 and part of the site was later used as part of RNAD Broughton Moor.

Services

Access to a C&WJR WTT for any date between 1884 and 1919 could give clear evidence of the halt's location and services.

History

The Cleator and Workington Junction Railway (C&WJR) was built in the late 1870s, being one of the fruits of the rapid industrialisation of West Cumberland in the second half of the nineteenth century, specifically being born as a reaction to oligopolistic behaviour by the London and North Western and Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railways.Шаблон:Sfn

It was originally intended to drive the line northwards across country to meet the Caledonian Railway and cross into Scotland by the Solway Viaduct, but an accommodation was made with the LNWR leading to the intended northern extension being greatly watered down to three lines:

All lines in the area were primarily aimed at mineral traffic, notably iron ore, coal and limestone, none more so than the Northern Extension, which passed through open country. Passenger services were provided calling at Great Broughton, a mile north of Buckhill Colliery, but they were so unsuccessful they petered out after a mere two months. The C&WJR earned the local name "The Track of the Ironmasters".Шаблон:Sfn

The founding Act of Parliament of June 1878 confirmed the company's agreement with the Furness Railway that the latter would operate the line for one third of the receipts.Шаблон:Sfn

All C&WJR's lines were heavily graded. Almost all of the first three miles of the Northern Extension from Calva Junction to Buckhill was rising at 1 in 70, with gentler slopes thereafter to the extension's summit at Great BroughtonШаблон:Sfn This favoured loaded coal and coke trains heading for Workington.

The Northern Extension became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway at the Grouping of 1923.

Like any business tied to one or few industries, the C&WJR was particularly at the mercy of trade fluctuations and technological change. The Cumberland iron industry led the charge in the nineteenth century, but became less and less competitive as time passed and local ore became worked out and harder to win, taking the fortunes of the railway with it. The peak year was 1909, when the C&WJR handled 1,644,514 tons of freight.Шаблон:Sfn Ominously for the line, that tonnage was down to just over 800,000 by 1922, bringing receipts of £83,349, compared with passenger fares totalling £6,570.Шаблон:Sfn

The high water mark for tonnage on the C&WJR was 1909, the high water mark for progress was 1913, with the opening of the Harrington and Lowca line for passenger traffic. A chronology of the line's affairs from 1876 to 1992 has almost no entries before 1914 which fail to include "opened" or "commenced". After 1918 the position was reversed, when the litany of step-by-step closures and withdrawals was relieved only by a control cabin and a signalbox being erected at Harrington Junction in 1919.

The Northern Extension was closed north of Buckhill in 1921 and subsequently lifted. Buckhill Pit closed in 1932, but the line to its site became a remarkable survivor because the Admiralty, attracted by a remote area with rail and sea access, chose part of the site of Buckhill Colliery and the surrounding area to build a rail-served armaments depot which opened in 1938 and closed in 1992, Шаблон:Sfntaking the line with it. After the closure of the C&WJR south of Workington Central in 1965 all trains past the site of the halt to the armaments depot travelled south from Siddick Junction past Calva Junction, where they reversed towards Seaton.

Afterlife

By 2013 the trackbed through the site of the halt was a public off-road trail.

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  1. ↑ Buckhill Colliery and connection, via National Library of Scotland{
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