Rosehill Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Rosehill Junction (1879-1973)Opened on the Harrington and Lowca Light Railway.
Opened on the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway.
Description
This was the junction between Bain's Tramway (later known as the Harrington and Lowca Light Railway) and the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway's Harrington Branch (later known as the Rosehill Branch).
Both lines were single track and there was a loop on the Cleator and Workington north of the junction.
A signal box was later provided, probably when the Harrington and Lowca Light Railway Act allowed passenger trains.
Tags
JunctionExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
01/04/2018
| Nearby stations Copperas Hill Rosehill (Archer Street) Halt Harrington Harrington Church Road Halt High Harrington Distington Micklam Lowca [2nd] Lowca [1st] Gilgarran Halt Workington Central Workington Parton [WC and ER] Parton [WJR] Workington Bridge | Harrington Iron Works Harrington Harbour Harrington Junction Moss Bay Iron and Steel Works Distington Iron Works Solway Colliery Bain^s Siding Derwent Iron and Steel Works Harrington No 11 Jane Pit Lowca Engine Shed Moorbanks Pit Harrington No 10 Wythemoor Colliery |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| /05/1990 | Airdrie Branch (Caledonian Railway) Imperial Tube Works to Rosehill Junction (excluded) closed. |
