Rampside railway station

Disused railway station in Cumbria, England

Rampside railway station was located on the Piel Branch of the Furness Railway in the Rampside area of Barrow-in-Furness, England.

The single platform station opened from 24 August 1846[1] as Concle, being renamed Rampside in 1869.[2] The station remained operational until 1936 when it closed along with the following station at Piel, which had been reachable via the Roa Island Causeway.[2] The station building and entire branch line had been demolished by the 1980s.

References

  1. ^ Robinson 2002, p. 37.
  2. ^ a b "Rampside Railway Station". Old Cumbria Gazetteer. Retrieved 20 February 2015.

Sources

  • Robinson, Peter W. (2002). Cumbria's Lost Railways. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84033-205-6.[1]


Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Salthouse Halt   Furness Railway   Piel
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Closed railway stations in Cumbria
Waverley Route
Caledonian main lineSolway Junction Railway
Port Carlisle Dock and RailwayCarlisle and Silloth Bay RailwayMaryport and Carlisle RailwayNewcastle & Carlisle RailwayLancaster and Carlisle RailwayIngleton branch lineEden Valley RailwaySouth Durham and Lancashire Union RailwaySettle–Carlisle lineCleator and Workington Junction RailwayHarrington and Lowca Light Railway
Gilgarran Branch
Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont RailwayWhitehaven Junction Railway
Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway
Furness RailwayCockermouth and Workington Railway
Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith RailwayConiston RailwayOther

54°05′03″N 3°10′21″W / 54.0842°N 3.1726°W / 54.0842; -3.1726

  1. ^ Robinson 2002, p. 43.