Silecroft  | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Silecroft,Cumberland England | ||||
| Coordinates | 54°13′33″N3°20′04″W / 54.2259441°N 3.3344736°W /54.2259441; -3.3344736 | ||||
| Grid reference | SD130819 | ||||
| Owned by | Network Rail | ||||
| Managed by | Northern Trains | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||
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| Station code | SIC | ||||
| 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 | |||||
| 1 November 1850 | Opened | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  10,810 | ||||
| 2020/21 |  4,270 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 8,800 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 8,038 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 8,270 | ||||
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Silecroft is a railway station on theCumbrian Coast Line, which runs betweenCarlisle andBarrow-in-Furness. The station, situated 19 miles (31 km) north-west of Barrow-in-Furness, serves the villages ofKirksanton andSilecroft inCumbria. It is owned byNetwork Rail and managed byNorthern 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 theWhitehaven and Furness Junction Railway.
Therailway station was arequest stop until December 2023, and one of the manylevel crossings on this section of the route is controlled from thesignal box at its south end.[1]
Some through trains to theFurness Line towardsLancaster stop here.
The station is unstaffed, but like many others on this route had a ticket vending machine installed in 2019 to allow passengers to buy tickets before boarding. There are shelters, digital information screens and timetable posters on eachplatform, along with a telephone for obtaining train running details. Level access is available to both platforms, but these are lower than standard and need portable steps for entry or exit from the train (so the station is not suitable for wheelchair users).[2]
Monday to Saturdays there is generally an hourly request service southbound to Barrow and northbound towardsWhitehaven andCarlisle, although there are one or two longer gaps at certain times of day.
A Sunday service was introduced at the May 2018 timetable change, along with additional evening trains on weekdays.[3] The Sunday service is the first to be provided here for more than 40 years.
Media related toSilecroft railway station at Wikimedia Commons| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Bootle | Northern Trains Cumbrian Coast Line | Millom | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Bootle | Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway | Millom | ||
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