Lowca railway station

Lowca

Lowca, probably on 2 June 1913
Location
Place Lowca, Cumbria
Area Copeland
Coordinates 54°34′54″N 3°34′51″W / 54.5817°N 3.5808°W / 54.5817; -3.5808Coordinates: 54°34′54″N 3°34′51″W / 54.5817°N 3.5808°W / 54.5817; -3.5808
Grid reference NX979218
Operations
Original company Lowca Light Railway
Post-grouping Lowca Light Railway
Platforms 1[1][2]
History
15 April 1912 Workmen's service commenced
2 June 1913 Public passenger service [3]
31 May 1926 Public passenger service ended
1 April 1929 Workmen's service ended[4]
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Lowca railway station served the village of Lowca in the former county of Cumberland, England, which is now part of Cumbria.

A public passenger service ran from the station between 2 June 1913 and May 1926, 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, with an extra on Saturdays. There never was a public Sunday service.[5]

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

Freight services

The railway through Lowca was first and foremost a mineral railway, with the short-lived workmen's and passenger services an afterthought. Lines first reached Lowca at the end of the Nineteenth Century, eventually running northwards towards Workington and northeastwards to meet the Gilgarran Branch at Bain's Siding. The driving forces were coal, fireclay at nearby Micklam, 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 Lowca until final closure to all traffic in May 1973.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Micklam
Line and station closed
  Lowca Light Railway   Terminus

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