Cockermouth railway station was the western terminus of the
Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway
The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway (CK&PR) was an English railway company incorporated by act of Parliament (UK), act of Parliament on 1 August 1861, to build a line connecting the town of Cockermouth with the London and North Western ...
; it served the town of
Cockermouth
Cockermouth is a market town and civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England. The name refers to the town's position by the confluence of the River Cocker into the River Derwent. At the 2021 census, the built u ...
,
Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancash ...
, England.
History
The station opened to passenger traffic on 2 January 1865 and closed on 18 April 1966. The station was the second to be built in the town. The original
Cockermouth & Workington Railway station closed to passengers when the
CK&PR station opened on an altered alignment, though it remained in use as a goods station until 1964.
The latter station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "
Slow Train" by
Flanders and Swann
Flanders and Swann were a British comedy duo and musicians. Michael Flanders (1922–1975) was a lyricist, actor, and singer. He collaborated with Donald Swann (1923–1994), a composer and pianist, in writing and performing comedy music, comic ...
.
The site today
All traces of the station are now gone, as the site is now occupied by the Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Base and the
Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service.
Running down the left hand side of the Fire Service building is the old trackbed, now a public walkway; many original bridges and features survive to this day.
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Station name: Cockermouth
Beeching closures in England
Disused railway stations in Cumbria
Former Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1865
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