Oldside Hematite Iron and Steel Works
Location type
WorksName and dates
Oldside Hematite Iron and Steel Works (1856-1930)Served by the Whitehaven Junction Railway.
Description
Also known as Workington Haematite Iron Works. This was located on the west side of the Whitehaven Junction Railway just north of Lonsdale Dock and the River Derwent. Despite the name, this was principally an iron works.
The works was chiefly served by the Whitehaven Junction Railway with sidings running from the north into the works. A siding continued south to Lonsdale Dock and sidings ran west to dump slag on the foreshore.
St Helens Colliery No 3 was to open to the north, the coke ovens specifically, and the Cleator and Workington Railway's Lonsdale Dock branch was to run down the west side of the works. Across the Whitehaven line was the West Cumberland Heamatite Works.
The site was cleared after closure.
Tags
Iron works steel worksExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
08/04/2018
| Nearby stations Workington North Workington Siddick Junction Workington Bridge Workington Central Seaton [CWJ] Camerton [CWR] Harrington Church Road Halt High Harrington Harrington Flimby Rosehill (Archer Street) Halt Copperas Hill Marron Junction Distington | North Western Hematite Steel Works Lonsdale Dock Derwent Junction Lowther Iron Works Dock Junction Engine Shed Dock Junction St Helens Coke Ovens St Helens No 3 Colliery Calva Junction Workington Shed Cloffock^s Junction Workington Bridge Junction Siddick Paper Mill Barepot Tinplate Works Moorbanks Pit |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
News items
| 27/05/2021 | New exhibition highlights Workington's industrial heritage The Rails Which Circled the World [Community Rail Network] |
