Sleightholme was an early, short lived
railway station near
Newton Arlosh
Newton Arlosh is a village in the civil parish of Holme East Waver in Cumbria, United Kingdom.
Landmarks
St. John the Evangelist's Church is one of the most complete fortified churches in the area. In ruins from the Dissolution until the 19 ...
,
Cumbria on the
Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company's branch from to
The station served the small hamlet of Newton Arlosh and its rural surrounds, but was named after a farm which was nearer than the village.
Its timetable entries show trains calling on Saturdays Only. It only appeared in public timetables from September 1856 to June 1857.
By 1866 no trace of the station could be seen on OS maps.
Sleightholme bridge in 1866, via ''National Library of Scotland''
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The line through the station site closed on 7 September 1964.[Cumbria Railways]
Retrieved : 2012-08-21
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 ...
(NBR) leased the line from the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company in 1862, and absorbed them in 1880, The NBR, in turn, was absorbed into 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, passing to British Railways
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...
in 1948.
References
Sources
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External links
The station site on an Edwardian 6" OS map
''National Library of Scotland''
''Holme St Cuthbert History Group''
''Cumbria Gazetteer''
The station and line
''Rail Map Online''
{{Closed stations Cumbria
Disused railway stations in Cumbria
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1856
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1857
1856 establishments in England