Siddick Junction railway station

Siddick Junction
The site of the station in 2013
General information
Location	Siddick, near Workington, Cumberland England
Coordinates	54°39′54″N 3°33′13″W / 54.6649°N 3.5535°W / 54.6649; -3.5535
Grid reference	NX998310
Platforms	3[1][2]
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Cleator and Workington Junction Railway and LNWR
Key dates
1 September 1880	Opened for passenger exchange
1 March 1890	Opened as full passenger station
13 April 1931	Closed to passengers towards Workington Central
1 October 1934	Closed to passengers[3]
Location Siddick Junction Location in present-day Allerdale, Cumbria Show map of the former Allerdale Borough Siddick Junction Location in present-day Cumbria, England Show map of Cumbria

v t e Cleator & Workington Junction Rly
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Key open line C&WJR lines (all closed) other closed lines Maryport & Carlisle Rly to Carlisle Solway Junction Railway to Annan via Solway Viaduct Linefoot Linefoot Junction Maryport & Carlisle Rly to Papcastle Summit Great Broughton RNAD Broughton Moor Buckhill Colliery Halt Maryport & Carlisle Rly to Carlisle Camerton Colliery Halt Siddick Junction Seaton Siddick Junction Calva Junction Workington North Cockermouth and Workington Railway Cockermouth and Workington Railway Marron Junction Workington Main Workington Central Bridgefoot Derwent Ironworks Whitehaven, Cleator & Egremont Railway   Moss Bay (north) Ironworks (south)   Harrington Junction to Whitehaven Harrington (Church Road Halt) Rosehill (Archer Street Halt) High Harrington Lowca Light Railway to Lowca to Parton Distington Gilgarran Branch Oatlands Whitehaven, Cleator & Egremont Railway Millgrove ironworks Moresby Parks Summit Rowrah and Kelton Fell Railway Moresby Junction Halt quarry Summit Rowrah Arlecdon Keekle Colliers' Platform Keekle Viaduct mine Cleator Moor West Cleator Moor East Cleator Moor Junction Moor Row Junction to Sellafield Moor Row to Whitehaven via Corkickle

v t e Cumbrian Coast line
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West Coast Main Line to Glasgow and Edinburgh Carlisle Tyne Valley line Settle–Carlisle line Cummersdale West Coast Main Line to London Euston Dalston Curthwaite Crofton Wigton Brookfield Leegate High Blaithwaite Carlisle & Silloth Bay Rly Mealsgate Solway Junction Railway Carlisle & Silloth Bay Rly Allhallows Colliery Brayton Baggrow Aspatria Arkleby Bullgill Maryport and Carlisle Railway branch to Brigham Dearham Bridge Maryport Flimby St Helens Colliery Halt Siddick Junction Calva Junction Workington North Cleator & Workington Jn Rly to Great Broughton Cockermouth and Workington Railway River Derwent Steel Works Cleator & Workington Jn Rly to Distington Workington Harrington Whitehaven, Cleator & Egremont Railway Parton Whitehaven Whitehaven Harbour Preston Street Corkickle Corkickle Brake Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway St Bees St Bees Golf Halt Nethertown Braystones Cleator & Furness Rly River Ehen Sellafield Sellafield sidings River Calder Seascale Drigg Low Level Waste Repository Drigg River Irt River Mite Ravenglass for Eskdale Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway River Esk Eskmeals Monks Moors Halt Bootle Whitbeck Crossing Halt Silecroft Kirksanton Halt Hodbarrow Millom Underhill Halt Green Road River Duddon Coniston Railway Foxfield Kirkby-in-Furness Dunnerholme Gate Askam-in-Furness Goldmire mines Sandscale mines Barrow-in-Furness Barrow loop line Port of Barrow Roosecote Power Station Salthouse Halt Roose Rampside Furness Abbey Piel Dalton Furness line

Siddick Junction railway station was opened by the Cleator and Workington Junction (C&WJR) and London and North Western Railways in 1880 to provide exchange platforms for passengers wishing to change trains from one company's line to the other. A passenger travelling from Maryport to Distington, for example, would change at Siddick Junction. As a purely exchange station - like Dovey Junction and Dukeries Junction elsewhere in the country - the owning companies would not need to provide road or footpath access or ticketing facilities as no passengers were invited to enter or leave the station except by train.

Ten years later, in 1890, the community of Siddick had grown sufficiently to justify upgrading the station to handle the full range of passengers.

The station was officially "Siddick Junction"^[3][4] but Bradshaw referred to it as plain "Siddick".^[5]