Bowness railway station

Bowness railway station
General information
Location	Bowness-on-Solway, Allerdale England
Coordinates	54°56′57″N 3°13′47″W / 54.949214°N 3.229683°W / 54.949214; -3.229683
Grid reference	NY213623
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Solway Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Key dates
8 August 1870[1]	Opened
September 1917	closed
1920	reopened
1 September 1921[2][3]	Closed to all traffic

v t e Solway Junction Railway
Legend
Caledonian Railway Main Line Kirtlebridge Annan Shawhill Annan Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway Solway Viaduct over Solway Firth  Scotland England Bowness Whitrigg Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway Kirkbride Junction Sleightholme Abbey Junction Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway Bromfield Maryport and Carlisle Railway Brayton (M&CR) Maryport and Carlisle Railway

Bowness was a station which served Bowness-on-Solway, a village in Cumbria on the English side of the Solway Firth. The station opened on 8 August 1870 by the Caledonian Railway on a line constructed from the Caledonian Railway Main Line at Kirtlebridge across the Glasgow South Western Line, then forming the Solway Junction Railway over the Solway Viaduct to Brayton. The line opened for freight from 13 September 1869.