Cumwhinton Station, B6263 Station Road, Cumwhinton
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Cumwhinton Station, B6263 Station Road, Cumwhinton
Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 10 Jun 2023
Grade II Listed 1875 railway station on the Settle to Carlisle line. The line was built between 1870 and 1876 and fully opened along with this station on 1st May 1876. It was designed by John Holloway Sanders, who designed many of the other stations on the line. The station closed to goods and passengers on 5th November 1956 and is now a private house named The Station. The station is 304 miles, 12 chains (489.4824 km) from St Pancras. It had a three-road goods shed on the down side. The signal box opened August 1875, replaced 1897, and was closed February 1957 and subsequently demolished. The Stationmasters house and four railway cottages still extant are up the slope behind the station, also Grade II Listed. Stationmasters were; John Lambert 1876 - 1877 (taken into custody 3/10/1877); William J. Stowell 1878 - 1886; G. Barker 1886 - 1891; Isaac Scott 1891 - 1915; W.S. Balfour from 1915; J.H. Ashton from 1945.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.869768
Longitude
-2.852148