Brampton Railway Station Totem Fridge Magnet

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Brampton Railway Station Totem Fridge Magnet. Free UK shipping. High quality, hand printed metal fridge magnet. British Railway station name sign, in North Eastern region orange.

Brampton (Cumbria) is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between Newcastle and Carlisle via Hexham. The station, situated 10 miles east of Carlisle, it serves the hamlet of Milton and the town of Brampton, Cumberland in Cumbria, England. It is owned by Network Rail and is managed by Northern Trains.

The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway was formed in 1829, and was opened in stages. The station was opened in July 1836, following the opening of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway between Greenhead and Carlisle London Road.

Upon opening, the station was called Milton, or possibly, Milton for Brampton. According to Quick (2022), the station has since been renamed several times.^[5]Nowadays, the station is commonly suffixed as Brampton (Cumbria), in order to distinguish it from the station of the same name in Suffolk.

Brampton operated as a junction station from opening in 1836, linking with a short branch line, the Brampton Railway, known locally as The Dandy. The line, which was initially horse-drawn, ran into the town, terminating at Brampton Town. This short branch line was taken over by the North Eastern Railway in 1912, with the track relaid and locomotive operated services resuming from August 1913, with a break from 1917 to 1920. The line was closed in 1923, with most of the former route now serving as a public footpath.

The station was also the junction of another railway serving the local collieries owned by the Earl of Carlisle. Known as Lord Carlisle’s Railway, this ran to a junction with the Alston Line at Lambley. This mineral railway closed in March 1953.

The first Station Master at Brampton was Thomas Edmondson, who introduced cardboard tickets and later developed the ticket dating machine.

Brampton Railway Station was host to a camping coach from 1935 to 1939 – one of 119 vehicles converted by the London and North Eastern Railway between 1933 and 1938.

Brampton was reduced to an unstaffed halt in 1967, along with most of the other stations on the line that escaped the Beeching Axe. The former station buildings were subsequently demolished in stages during the 1970s and 1980s.

Brampton Railway Station Totem Fridge Magnet, the size of the magnet is 115x30mm and they come on a backing card. There are two magnets on the back, ready to stick on the fridge.

This totem fridge magnet is part of our collection of Northumberland railway station magnets, click here to see the full range

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