The Gilgarran Branch (occasionally referred to as the Gilgarron Branch) was a 7-mile-32-chain long (11.9 km) single track railway line connecting four separate railway companies in the former county of Cumberland, now part of Cumbria, England.
The GilgarranBranch (occasionally referred to as the Gilgarron Branch) was a 7-mile-32-chain long (11.9 km) single track railway line connecting four...
the C&WJR's north–south main line crossed the Joint Line's east–west GilgarranBranch. The C&WJR line was one of the fruits of the rapid industrialisation...
Carlisle Railway. This section was known as the Northern Extension. Several branch lines were built including that to Rowrah, of which a short 300 yard section...
Pit on the GilgarranBranch. A branch to Mossbay in Workington was opened on 19 December 1885, diverging southwest from the Derwent Branch west of Harrington...
Egremont Railway, near Corkickle (this was the main connection: the Gilgarranbranch of the WC&ER also connected at Parton). Cleator and Furness Railway...
The halt was on the WCER's GilgarranBranch, occasionally referred to as the Gilgarron Branch. The company and the branch were fruits of the rapid industrialisation...
running northwards towards Workington and southeastwards to meet the GilgarranBranch at Bain's Siding. The driving forces were coal, fireclay at nearby...
eventually ran northwards towards Workington and northeastwards to meet the GilgarranBranch at Bain's Siding. The driving forces were coal at Lowca, fireclay and...
was a railway junction in Harrington, Cumbria, England. It joined three branches to the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway's (CWJR) main line from...
Cockermouth and Workington was closed on 18 April 1966, leaving a single line branch between Keswick and Penrith. The station survived for six years before closing...
Wilkinsons Wagon Works until 1962. By 2013 no trace of the site remained. GilgarranBranch Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Andrews 2001, pp. 22–23. Rail...
Colliers' Platform Cleator Moor West Harrington and Lowca Light Railway GilgarranBranch Harrington (Church Road) Halt Rosehill (Archer Street) Halt Rose Hill...
Colliers' Platform Cleator Moor West Harrington and Lowca Light Railway GilgarranBranch Harrington (Church Road) Halt Rosehill (Archer Street) Halt Rose Hill...
Colliers' Platform Cleator Moor West Harrington and Lowca Light Railway GilgarranBranch Harrington (Church Road) Halt Rosehill (Archer Street) Halt Rose Hill...
Colliers' Platform Cleator Moor West Harrington and Lowca Light Railway GilgarranBranch Harrington (Church Road) Halt Rosehill (Archer Street) Halt Rose Hill...
the film The Stars Look Down shot in 1938 and released in 1940. The Dock Branch, which veered west off the line to Siddick north of the station closed on...
Bridgefoot Harrington Parton Halt Branthwaite Distington Distington Works GilgarranBranch Ullock Parton Lamplugh Rowrah Whitehaven Summit Winder Whitehaven Tunnel...
Bridgefoot Harrington Parton Halt Branthwaite Distington Distington Works GilgarranBranch Ullock Parton Lamplugh Rowrah Whitehaven Summit Winder Whitehaven Tunnel...
Harrington Junction to Whitehaven High Harrington to Parton Distington GilgarranBranch Oatlands Millgrove ironworks Moresby Parks Summit quarry Summit Rowrah...
eventually ran northwards towards Workington and northeastwards to meet the GilgarranBranch at Bain's Siding. The driving forces were coal at Lowca, fireclay and...
(C&WJR) otherwise mineral branch which left the company's Workington Central to Cleator Moor West main line at Rowrah Branch Junction south of Distington...
mines such as the Postlethwaite's, Salterhall and Florence workings on a branch heading southeast immediately south of Winder station. In 1922 seven all...
Colliers' Platform Cleator Moor West Harrington and Lowca Light Railway GilgarranBranch Harrington (Church Road) Halt Rosehill (Archer Street) Halt Rose Hill...
(C&WJR) otherwise mineral branch which left the company's Workington Central to Cleator Moor West main line at Rowrah Branch Junction south of Distington...
Harrington Junction to Whitehaven High Harrington to Parton Distington GilgarranBranch Oatlands Millgrove ironworks Moresby Parks Summit quarry Summit Rowrah...
Colliers' Platform Cleator Moor West Harrington and Lowca Light Railway GilgarranBranch Harrington (Church Road) Halt Rosehill (Archer Street) Halt Rose Hill...
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