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Drumburgh Railway Station c1950
Time Capsules
Drumburgh Railway Station c1950

Photo of the Drumburgh two platform island station.
It was part of North British Railway (a Scottish railway company that ceased to exist in 1923 after the Grouping), and was closed in 1955.


Photo © The Step Back Through Time Collection
Picture added on 25 June 2009
This picture is in the following groups
Step back through Time, trains and stations
Comments:
I think of the North British as a Scottish railway and yet this station was in England, on a branch in Cumbria, in Maryport and Carlisle territory. Drumburgh was actually a junction, with a line to Silloth and another to Port Carlisle. The roof of a signalbox appears above the station building, distinguished by its finials.
The village is close to the Solway Firth and the western end of Hadrian's Wall: there was a fort here. Drumburgh Castle, now a farmhouse, was built with stone from Hadrian's Wall
Added by Martin Bodman on 22 January 2010
A very evocative photograph of this rural area. Very good to have it available on line.
Added by Roger Griffith on 17 August 2012
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