Bromfield was a railway station which served
Bromfield, a small settlement in Cumbria on the English side of the
Solway Firth
The Solway Firth ( gd, Tràchd Romhra) is a firth that forms part of the border between England and Scotland, between Cumbria (including the Solway Plain) and Dumfries and Galloway. It stretches from St Bees Head, just south of Whitehaven in ...
. The station opened in 1873 by the
Caledonian Railway on a line constructed from the
Caledonian Railway Main Line at Kirtlebridge across the
Glasgow South Western Line
The Glasgow South Western Line is a mainline railway in Scotland that runs from Glasgow to Kilmarnock, and then either via Dumfries, or Stranraer via Ayr, with a branch to East Kilbride.
History
The line was built by several railway compan ...
, then forming the
Solway Junction Railway over the
Solway Viaduct Solway may refer to:
Places Australia
*Solway, a neighbourhood of Ashburton, Victoria. a suburb of Melbourne
New Zealand
*Solway, New Zealand, a suburb of Masterton
United Kingdom
*Solway Firth, the inlet between the north west of England and so ...
to
Brayton. The line opened for freight trains on 13 September 1869.
History
On 1 January 1873 a crossing keeper was appointed and the level crossing signalled. In March 1873 Bromfield station was opened by the
Solway Junction Railway, then part of the
Caledonian Railway and at first the station was a request stop. At the south end of the station was a siding leading to the goods yard, worked by a frame which was controlled by the train tablet for the section Abbey Junction and Brayton. The station siding was provided for Fielding & Company and was 1¾ from Brayton Junction. The station today is a private house.
The passenger service was never well patronised. In 1910 only three trains in each direction served the station, with a Brayton to Abbey Junction working once a week. It was further reduced to being just one carriage at the front of an occasional goods train and in September 1917 this was suspended, but was reinstated in 1920.
Passenger services were finally withdrawn in 1921 and the line south of Annan over the Solway Viaduct was closed completely.
The station had one platform with two simple station buildings, one stone and the other constructed of wood. The closure of the station was directly linked to the closure of the
Solway viaduct Solway may refer to:
Places Australia
*Solway, a neighbourhood of Ashburton, Victoria. a suburb of Melbourne
New Zealand
*Solway, New Zealand, a suburb of Masterton
United Kingdom
*Solway Firth, the inlet between the north west of England and so ...
.
The line remained open to through traffic until 14 February 1933; the track was lifted in 1937.
Micro-history
Until October 1895 the station name was shown as Broomfield in timetables. The track was removed from Bromfield in 1937.
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