Threlkeld railway station was situated on the

Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway (CK&PR) was an English railway company incorporated by Act of Parliament on 1 August 1861, to build a line connecting the town of Cockermouth with the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) West Coast ...

between Penrith and

Cockermouth Cockermouth is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England, so named because it is at the confluence of the River Cocker as it flows into the River Derwent. The mid-2010 census estimates state that Cocke ...

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. The station served the village of

Threlkeld Threlkeld is a village and civil parish in the north of the Lake District in Cumbria, England, to the east of Keswick. It lies at the southern foot of Blencathra, one of the more prominent fells in the northern Lake District, and to the nort ...

. The station opened to passenger traffic on 2 January 1865, and closed on 6 March 1972.

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* * * * Disused railway stations in Cumbria Former Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1865 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1972 Beeching closures in England {{NorthWestEngland-railstation-stub