Drigg railway station

Drigg
General information
Location	Holmrook, Copeland England, United Kingdom
Coordinates	54°22′37″N 3°26′37″W / 54.3768581°N 3.4435811°W / 54.3768581; -3.4435811
Grid reference	SD063988
Owned by	Network Rail
Managed by	Northern Trains
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	DRI
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Furness Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway British Rail (London Midland Region)
Key dates
19 July 1849	Opened as Drigg for Wastwater
1955	Renamed Drigg
Passengers
2018/19	9,156
2019/20	8,404
2020/21	1,892
2021/22	5,540
2022/23	6,258
Location Drigg Location in Copeland, Cumbria Show map of the former Borough of Copeland Drigg Location in Cumbria, England Show map of Cumbria
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Drigg is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. The station, situated 31 miles (50 km) north-west of Barrow-in-Furness, serves the villages of Drigg and Holmrook in Cumbria. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.

The station is unstaffed, but the main station building still stands and is in private commercial use as a cafe and craft shop.^[1]

At the south end of the station is a level crossing with manually-operated gates, controlled from the adjacent signal box. There is step-free access to each platform, however the platforms are lower than the standard ones and are therefore not suitable for mobility-impaired passengers.^[2]

Waiting shelters and timetable posters are located on each side of the track, train running information for the station can also obtained by telephone. A ticket machine and digital information screens were installed by operator Northern in 2019, so passengers can now purchase tickets before boarding the train.^[3]

A short distance from the station, heavy secured sidings take special trains carrying nuclear materials from the Sellafield nuclear site (which is located close by) to the Low Level Waste Repository where the material is buried. Paul Merton visited the station en route to the Repository in the first episode of his 2016 travel documentary Paul Merton's Secret Stations.^[4]