Silecroft railway station

Silecroft, Italy

Silecroft is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. The station, situated 19 miles (31 km) north-west of Barrow-in-Furness, serves the villages of Kirksanton and Silecroft in Cumbria. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains

. The station is located to the west of the 1,970 ft (600 m) Black Combe Fell. It was opened, along with the line, on 1 November 1850 by the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway. The railway station was a request stop until December 2023, and one of the many level crossings on this section of the route is controlled from the signal box at its south end. Some through trains to the Furness Line towards Lancaster stop here.

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