Port Carlisle Branch Junction to Canal Junction Curve (Caledonian Railway)

Introduction

The opening of this curve allowed trains from the Carlisle and Port Carlisle Railway and Dock Company and, more particularly, the North British Railways Waverley Route to approach Carlisle Citadel rather than Carlisle Canal. The curve was built by the Caledonian Railway.




Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This junction was north of Carlisle. It was the eastern end of a connecting line, Port Carlisle Junction to Canal Junction Curve (Caledonian Railway) opened in 1860 to give the Waverley Route an approach to Carlisle station.
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Caledonian Railway
Carlisle Goods Loop (Carlisle Goods Traffic Committee)
Photograph taken from a northbound Waverley route service shortly after leaving Carlisle in December 1968. The train is approaching Carlisle number 3 ...
Bruce McCartney /12/1968
Having passed Carlisle no 3 box and crossed the River Caldew, a Waverley route service for Edinburgh veers west away from the WCML at Port Carlisle ...
Bruce McCartney /12/1968
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This junction was on the short length of connecting line which allowed trains from the Waverley Route to approach Carlisle station from the north.
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Carlisle Goods Loop (Carlisle Goods Traffic Committee)
61242 Alexander Reith Gray + 61290 head north out of Carlisle on 9 July 1961 with the RCTS Borders Rail Tour. The B1s took over from ...
K A Gray 09/07/1961
60532 Blue Peter near Canal Junction, Carlisle, with the Blue Peter Excursion of 8 October 1966. ...
G W Robin 08/10/1966
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