Time Capsules - Old Photographs | Moor Row Railway Station

	1097
	Marcel Gommers
	1954

Moor Row Railway Station

Photo of Moor Row railway station (Cumbria), c1954. Note both the footbridge and the road bridge.
Waiting at the one of the two platforms is a passenger train headed by steam locomotive 52501.
The occasion: W699 - SLS West Cumberland Rail Tour

Photo © The Step Back Through Time Collection
Picture Added on 27 December 2009.

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Moor Row was on the Whitehaven, Cleator & Egremont Joint Railway, operated prior to 1923 by the Furness Railway [FR] and the London & North Western [LNWR]. From Sellafield on the FR, south of Whitehaven, the line ran inland to link up with the LNWR north of Whitehaven. Presumably the latter had running powers over the Maryport & Carlisle. Moor Row was apparently a junction with branches to Crossfield (freight only) and Whitehaven and there may have been an engine shed here.
The locomotive is probably one of Aspinall's Lancashire & Yorkshire class 27 0-6-0s, listed as 3F by British Railways, first introduced in 1889. Some were fitted with Belpaire fireboxes and extended smokeboxes after 1911, as this engine appears to be. 52501 had been withdrawn by 1960. The coaches are in the British Railways 'blood and custard' livery of the 1950s
Added by Martin Bodman on 01 February 2010.

The Geograph image here may represent the site of Moor Row station in 2005:
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/89929
It may be that the road bridge beyond the footbridge was in fact a railway bridge carrying the line from Whitehaven to Eskett?. The main line may have continued north via the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway. All these lines became part of the LMS after 1922, and then British Railways Midland Region after Nationalisation, post World War II
Added by Martin Bodman on 01 February 2010.

Strangely, BR No. 52501 is not included in my Ian Allan Combined Volume 1948 edition, there is a gap between 52466 and 52515. However the RailUK web site states that this was LMS No. 12501 built about 1918 under works lot number 5196, shedded at 12D (Workington) in 1948 and 11A (Carnforth) as its last home, withdrawn on 30 June 1957 and scrapped on 31 August 1957.
Added by Peter Langsdale on 01 February 2010.

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