Rosehill (Archer Street) Halt

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Rosehill (Archer Street) Halt (1913-1926)

Opened on the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway.

Description

This was a minimal single platform station on the west side of the line. It opened on the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway's Harrington Branch (later known as the Rosehill Branch) which connected Bain's Tramway to the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway. Rosehill Junction was just to the south and the station was built on the site of a former sand siding.

The station opened when the Harrington and Lowca Light Railway Act allowed the conversion of most of Bain's Tramway into a public railway.

This old mineral line had been used for workers' trains from 1911 run by the Workington Iron and Steel Company from Workington Central via the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway and Bain's Tramway to Harrington No 10 and Harrington No 11 collieries at Lowca.

This station was built on the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway, probably at the Workington Iron and Steel Company's expense as part of the Harrington and Lowca Light Railway.

Stations were opened on the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway at Harrington Church Road Halt, Rosehill (Archer Street) Halt and, on Bain's Tramway, Copperas Hill, Micklam and Lowca.

Tags

Station

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
01/04/2018