London Midland and Scottish Railway British Rail (London Midland Region)
Key dates
19 July 1849
Opened as Drigg for Wastwater
1955
Renamed Drigg
Passengers
2018/19
9,156
2019/20
8,404
2020/21
1,892
2021/22
5,540
2022/23
6,258
Location
Drigg
Location in Copeland, Cumbria
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Drigg
Location in Cumbria, England
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Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road
Drigg is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. The station, situated 31 miles (50 km) north-west of Barrow-in-Furness, serves the villages of Drigg and Holmrook in Cumbria. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
The station is unstaffed, but the main station building still stands and is in private commercial use as a cafe and craft shop.[1]
At the south end of the station is a level crossing with manually-operated gates, controlled from the adjacent signal box. There is step-free access to each platform, however the platforms are lower than the standard ones and are therefore not suitable for mobility-impaired passengers.[2]
Waiting shelters and timetable posters are located on each side of the track, train running information for the station can also obtained by telephone. A ticket machine and digital information screens were installed by operator Northern in 2019, so passengers can now purchase tickets before boarding the train.[3]
A short distance from the station, heavy secured sidings take special trains carrying nuclear materials from the Sellafield nuclear site (which is located close by) to the Low Level Waste Repository where the material is buried. Paul Merton visited the station en route to the Repository in the first episode of his 2016 travel documentary Paul Merton's Secret Stations.[4]
^"Places to Visit - Drigg"Cumbrian Coast Line website; Retrieved 14 November 2016
^Drigg station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 2 December 2016
^"Fares 2019"Cumbrian Coast Rail Users Group news article; Retrieved 8 November 2019
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