Disused railway lines and closed stations in Cumbria

364 miles of disused railway
171 closed stations
48 stations open today
71 named lost lines

Cumbria has 364 miles of disused railway and 171 closed stations, against 48 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 3.6 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Line, with 26 miles of its route inside Cumbria.

See Cumbria’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 364 miles of lost railway in Cumbria break down as 328 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 27 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 8.4 miles with track still in place but no trains and 0.9 miles dismantled. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Cumbria

71 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Cumbria; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Line	26
Silloth Branch	21
Waverley Line	17
Ingleton Branch	13
South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway	13
Rowrah - Marron Junction Line	12
Eden Valley Branch	11
Brampton Hartleyburn Railway	10
Foxfield to Coniston Branch	10
Cleator and Workington Line	10
Whitehaven Cleator and Egremont Line	9.1
Darlington to Tebay Line	8.7
Cockermouth and Workington Line	8.1
Gilgarran Branch	7.1
Eden Valley Railway	6.5
Rowrah Branch	6.4
Derwent Branch	5.6
Hincaster Branch	5.1
Solway Branch	5.1
Lakeside Line	4.9
Vickers Sons & Maxim Gun Range Siding	4.8
Calva to Buckhill	4.6
Annan Branch	4.2
Ramsden Dock Branch	3.4
Brampton Hartley Railway	3.0
Kelton Fell Line	3.0
Piel Branch	2.9
Port Carlisle Branch	2.9
Flimby Colliery	2.9
Glaxo Branch	2.5
Stank Branch	2.3
Moss Bay Branch	1.7
Stainton Branch	1.7
Edinburgh to Carlisle Line	1.6
Long Incline	1.4
Moor Row and Birksbridge Line	1.4
Canal Branch	1.2
Gretna Branch	1.2
Sandscale Iron Mines	1.2
Ward Hall Quarries	1.2

And 31 shorter stretches: Allerdale Coal Company Colliery Railway, Maryport Dock Branch, Moor Row Junction to Corkickle Branch, Brampton Hartleyburn Railway, Calva to Siddick Junction, Upperby Bridge Junction to Carlisle Caldew Junction, Workington Docks Branch, Clifton South Curve, Crosshow Colliery, Harrington Branch, Maryport Elizabeth Dock Line, Millom Iron Works Railway, Penrith Loop, Dubs Incline, Mowbray Branch, Hawcoat Branch, Salterhill Mine, Hodbarrow Pier, Bigrigg Branch, Wensleydale Railway, Carlisle Grand Junction Line, Derwent Works Branch, Harrington Colliery, Preston Street Goods Branch, Seatonmoor Colliery, Brampton Hartley Railway, Cleator Iron Ore Mine, Viaduct Goods Branch, Buckhill Pit, Merchant's Quay and Settle-Carlisle Railway.

Closed railway stations in Cumbria

All 171 closed and former stations in Cumbria, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Cumbria

48 stations in Cumbria still have a train service. The busiest are Carlisle (2.3 million a year), Penrith (North Lakes) (715,822 a year), Oxenholme Lake District (675,144 a year), Barrow-in-Furness (589,658 a year) and Windermere (402,704 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

County Durham, Dumfries and Galloway, Lancashire, Northumberland, Scottish Borders and North Yorkshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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