Low Gill railway station

Disused railway station in Lowgill, Cumbria

Low Gill

Location in present-day South Lakeland, Cumbria

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Low Gill

Location in present-day Cumbria, England

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Low Gill railway station served the hamlet of Lowgill, Westmorland (now in Cumbria), England, from 1846 to 1966 on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway.

History

The first station opened on 17 December 1846 by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. A second station opened as Low Gill Junction on 16 September 1861, at the junction of the railway's Ingleton branch line with the main line, rendering the first station useless so it closed on 1 November 1861. The suffix "Junction" was dropped from the second station's name in 1883 when the London and North Western Railway took over the line. It closed on 7 March 1960^[1] and closed to goods on 26 July 1966.^[2]

References

^ Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales - a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 265. OCLC 931112387.
^ "Site of former Low Gill station, 2003 © Ben Brooksbank :: Geograph Britain and Ireland". Geograph. Retrieved 12 September 2020.

External links

Preceding station	Historical railways		Following station
Tebay Line open, station closed		Lancaster and Carlisle Railway	Grayrigg Line open, station closed
	Disused railways
Tebay Line open, station closed		Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Ingleton branch line	Sedbergh Line and station closed