Drigg railway station
Drigg railway station serves the villages of Drigg and Holmrook in Cumbria, England. The railway station is a request stop on the scenic Cumbrian Coast Line 15 miles (24 km) south of Whitehaven.[1] It is unstaffed, but the main station building still stands and is in private commercial use as a cafe and craft shop.[2]
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 Drigg railway station in 2004 | |
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| Place | Holmrook |
| Local authority | Copeland |
| Grid reference | SD063988 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | DRI |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
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The station is owned by Network Rail and is operated by Northern which provides all passenger train services. At the south end of the station is a level crossing with manually-operated gates, controlled from the adjacent signal box. There is step-free access to each platform, however the platforms are lower than the standard ones and are therefore not suitable for mobility-impaired passengers.[3] Waiting shelters and timetable posters are located on each side of the track, train running information for the station can also obtained by telephone. A ticket machine and digital information screens were installed by operator Northern in 2019, so passengers can now purchase tickets before boarding the train.[4]
A short distance from the station, heavy secured sidings take special trains carrying nuclear materials from the Sellafield nuclear site (which is located close by) to the Low Level Waste Repository where the material is buried. Paul Merton visited the station en route to the Repository in the first episode of his 2016 travel documentary Paul Merton's Secret Stations.[5]
Services
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Bootle, Braystones, Drigg, Flimby, Green Road, Kirkby-in-Furness, Nethertown, Parton and Silecroft are request stops. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There is an hourly service southbound to Barrow-in-Furness and northbound to Whitehaven, Workington and Carlisle for much of the day (with slightly longer gaps mid-morning and in the late afternoon). A few through trains continue south of Barrow-in-Furness along the Furness Line to Lancaster.
There is no service after 21:00 each evening, but a Sunday service was introduced with the May 2018 timetable change and is still in operation.[1] Seven northbound and nine southbound trains call if required.
References
- Table 100 National Rail timetable, December 2019
- "Places to Visit - Drigg"Cumbrian Coast Line website; Retrieved 14 November 2016
- Drigg station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 2 December 2016
- "Fares 2019"Cumbrian Coast Rail Users Group news article; Retrieved 8 November 2019
- Paul Merton's Secret Stations - Episode Guide Channel 4 website; Retrieved 2 December 2016
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Drigg railway station. |
- Train times and station information for Drigg railway station from National Rail
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| Northern Cumbrian Coast Line |