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Port Carlisle railway station was a railway station in Port Carlisle, Cumbria; the terminus on the Port Carlisle Railway, serving the village and old port and the steamer service to Liverpool that ran from here until 1856, when it was transferred to Silloth.〔(Solway Plain - Past and Present ) Retrieved : 2012-08-01〕 Port Carlisle was two and a half miles away by train from Drumburgh and Glasson was one and a quarter miles away. The journey time to Drumburgh was nine minutes, although Glasson was a request stop.〔(Cumbria Railways ) Retrieved : 2012-08-23〕 == History == A port was built in 1819 at the hamlet of Fisher's Cross, later renamed Port Carlisle and four years later, in 1821, the eleven and a half mile long Carlisle Navigation Canal.〔Ramshaw, Page 1〕 was built to take goods to Carlisle.〔 The canal was closed in 1853〔 and the canal basin at Carlisle and parts of the canal were filled in by the Port Carlisle Railway Company who constructed a railway that started passenger services commenced in 1854, discontinuing them two years later when the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company's (C&SBRDC) new railway to Silloth opened, utilising the Port Carlisle Branch as far as Drumburgh.〔 A brief resurgence of business at Port Carisle had taken place upon the opening of the railway, taken away however by the new port at Silloth and the transfer of the steamer service to Liverpool.〔Ramshaw, Page 137〕 As a cheap alternative to a horse-drawn service was provided in 1856 between Drumburgh and Port Carlisle for a number of years. In 1914 steam power was used and to try and avoid closure a steam railmotor called 'Flower of Yarrow' was built and this service to Port Carlisle railway station lasted until the branch was closed in 1932.〔(Port Carlisle Railway ) Retrieved : 2012-08-01〕 Freight services had been withdrawn in 1899. By altering sediment-carrying currents the construction of Solway railway viaduct of the Solway Junction Railway caused Port Carlisle harbour to silt up and lose trade, which in turn eventually resulted in the abandonment of the Port Carlisle to Carlisle railway. A large jetty further up the Solway had also threw the River Eden off towards the Scottish side and further hindered access to the port.〔 The Port Carlisle Railway Company had agreed to supply a locomotive if the C&SBRDC provided rolling stock. The North British Railway leased the line from 1862, it was absorbed by them in 1880, and then taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.〔(Cumbria Railway ) Retrieved : 2012-08-01〕 On the day of closure residents gathered in a bower on the bowling green and passed a motion that "''the line had been closed because of the poor and inadequate service offered to the public.''"〔White〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Port Carlisle railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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