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Port Carlisle

Village in Cumbria, England

Field	Value
country	England
static_image_name	The Hope and Anchor at Port Carlisle.JPG
static_image_caption	Port Carlisle's main street
coordinates
official_name	Port Carlisle
civil_parish	Bowness
unitary_england	Cumberland
lieutenancy_england	Cumbria
region	North West England
constituency_westminster	Penrith and Solway
post_town	WIGTON
postcode_district	CA7
postcode_area	CA
dial_code	016973
os_grid_reference	NY241622
pushpin_map	United Kingdom Allerdale
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Allerdale, Cumbria

Port Carlisle is a coastal village in Cumberland, Cumbria, England. It is in the civil parish of Bowness-on-Solway. Its original name was Fisher's Cross, but when it became the terminus of the Carlisle Canal it was renamed Port Carlisle. During the lifetime of the canal it was of considerable importance as the sea outlet for Carlisle, handling both freight and passengers. With the building of the much bigger Silloth docks, the canal was redundant. Some through trade continued via the Port Carlisle Railway, but diminished as the Solway silted up.

The canal and railway

The Carlisle canal was built to allow sea access for Carlisle to Ireland, Scotland and Liverpool. The sea terminus was at Port Carlisle, and a sea lock and basin was built there in 1819. Four years later the canal was completed to Carlisle, and Port Carlisle became the centre of a good deal of transhipment trade, and passenger traffic via steam packets. However, the canal was short-lived due to competition from deep-water ports and the railways, and it closed in 1853. The canal was filled in and was used to lay the track for the Port Carlisle Railway which opened in 1854. The offshore wharf was connected to the rail system to allow continued access to Carlisle.

The direct passenger service to Carlisle ceased two years later when the railway to Silloth opened and a horse-drawn tram, the "Dandy", was substituted to join the Silloth line at Drumburgh. Freight still travelled on the railway from Port Carlisle, but decreased as the channel silted, and the much better dock facilities at Silloth were used. In 1914 to prevent closure of the line, a steam railmotor called 'Flower of Yarrow' was introduced and this service lasted until the branch was closed in 1932. The village was served by the Port Carlisle railway station.

File:Remains_of_Port_Carlisle_Railway_station.jpg|Remains of Railway station in 2010, now a car park. File:Samuel Bough (1822-1878) - The Solway at Port Carlisle - NG 1476 - National Galleries of Scotland.jpg|Samuel Bough (1822–1878) – The Solway at Port Carlisle

File:Port Carlisle Methodist chapel.jpg|Port Carlisle Methodist chapel File:Port_carlisle_methodist_chapel_interior.jpg|Interior of the chapel File:Port_carlisle_offshore_wharf.jpg| The offshore wharf built 1836 to accommodate larger vessels that could not enter the canal basin. File:Port carlisle map.jpg|Map of Port Carlisle showing remains of canal basin, and the railway.

File:NRM York 20171024 123509 (49312460668).jpg|The Port Carlisle horse-drawn tram; the "Dandy" in the National Railway Museum.

References

[http://www.cumbria-railways.co.uk/port-carlisle-railway.html Port Carlisle Railway] Retrieved : 2012-08-01

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