Rockcliffe railway station

Rockcliffe
Rockcliffe
General information
Location	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
10 September 1847	Station opened
1 January 1917	Station closed
2 December 1919	Station reopened
17 July 1950	Passenger service withdrawn but workmen's trains continued. Station renamed Rockcliffe Halt
6 December 1965	Station closed
Location
	Rockcliffe Location in the present-day City of Carlisle district, Cumbria Rockcliffe Location in present-day Cumbria, England

Rockcliffe railway station, later Rockcliffe Halt was a station which served the rural area around

English county of Cumberland (now part of Cumbria). It was served by local trains on what is now known as the West Coast Main Line. The nearest station for Rockcliffe is now at Carlisle

. It lay some distance from the village.

History

Opened by the

London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923 and BR in 1948. It closed briefly during WW1 and was renamed as Rockcliffe Halt in 1950 when regular passenger service ceased after which it was only used by railway workers at the nearby marshalling yards until 1965.^[2]

The station had a stationmaster's house, with combined ticket office and a waiting room. The line is still double track here.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Carlisle Line and station open		Main Line		Floriston Line open; Station closed

The site today

Trains pass at speed on the electrified West Coast Main Line. The station platforms have been demolished, the pedestrian overbridge has been removed, however the stationmaster's house remains as a private dwelling.

Caledonian Railway main line

Legend

Carstairs to Carlisle