Canal Jct. - Carlisle (Canal)
Date Closed to Passenger Services
1 Jul 1864
Mileage Closed
0m 30c†
Stations Closed
Carlisle (Canal)
Cobb Atlas Reference
471 38 56 - 39 56; NY 38661 56339 - NY 39057 55962
Present Status
Dismantled
Map
Further Notes
ACD - Fri 01/07/1864 - C; CPLGB p58; DRS; RPSGB. Services diverted to Carlisle (Citadel).
Some confusion surrounds the exact location of this station. Cobb shows the station on the end of a separate branch from Canal Jct. (actually Goods Station Branch Jct.) E of the through line on to the N&CR, effectively the site of the later goods station. However, the 1867 OS map clearly shows Canal station on the through line and this would support the Wikipedia entry that states "The station served as a terminus for passenger services, but tracks made an end-on junction ("Canal Junction") with the North Eastern Railway, a short distance south of the station. Passenger services could have continued through to points east of Carlisle, but that didn't happen in the station's lifetime". Was there ever a RTS over this section of line on to the Newcastle line?
Furthermore, RHRGB Vol.14 The Lake Counties p78 states "The company's passenger terminus, prosaically known as Canal station, was situated close to the end-on connection....with the Newcastle & Carlisle's Canal branch". This is ambivalent, depending on one's definition of "close". Later, on p81 it records that Canal station "closed on 1 July 1864 when Silloth trains began to run into Citadel and Canal henceforth became purely a goods depot".
Of course, there is no guarantee of the accuracy of OS maps but, for now, pending evidence to the contrary, I will plump for the 'through-line terminus' option.
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