Black Dyke Halt or Blackdyke was a railway station near

Blackdyke Blackdyke is a hamlet in the civil parish of Holme Low in Cumbria, United Kingdom. It is located by road to the east of Silloth. A railway station existed at Black Dyke Halt railway station, Blackdyke Halt on the line to Silloth until 1964. S ...

, Cumbria on the Silloth branch, serving the small hamlet of Black Dyke and its rural district. In its early days trains called on Saturdays only (Market Day),Bradshaw entry, January 1862
/ref> being upgraded some years later. The station closed on 7 September 1964.Cumbria Railways
Retrieved : 2012-08-21 The line to Silloth closed on 7 September 1964 as part of the Beeching cuts.

History

The

North British Railway The North British Railway was a British railway company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was established in 1844, with the intention of linking with English railways at Berwick. The line opened in 1846, and from the outset the company followe ...

leased the line from 1862, it was absorbed by them in 1880, and then taken over by the

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the " Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At th ...

in 1923.Cumbria Railway
Retrieved : 2012-08-21 The halt then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on

nationalisation Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state. Nationalization usually refers to pri ...

in 1948. The platform has been demolished.

Infrastructure

The halt sat close to the hamlet and had a single wood fronted platform with no platform shelter. Light was provided by two lamps. Level crossing gates were located at the platform end and a passenger shelter, or crossing keepers shelter, was located here. The stop lay about two miles away from Silloth and three from

Abbey Town railway station Abbey Town railway station was on the branch line off the Solway Junction Railway in the English county of Cumberland (later Cumbria). The first station after Abbey Junction on the branch to Silloth on the Solway Firth, it served the village ...

by train. It became a request stop in the 1950s.

References

;Notes ;Sources * Ramshaw, David (1997). ''The Carlisle Navigation Railway.'' Carlisle : P3 Publications. . * White, Stephen (1984). ''Solway Steam. The Story of the Silloth and Port Carlisle Railways. 1854-1964.'' Carlisle : Carel Press. .

External links

Black Dyke Halt
''Brian's Railway Years''

''John Charters''

''Holme St Cuthbert History Group''

The station on a navigable Edwardian OS map
''National Library of Scotland''
The station
'Rail Map Online'' {{Closed stations Cumbria Disused railway stations in Cumbria Former North British Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1856 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964 Beeching closures in England 1856 establishments in England