Drigg railway station

54°22′37″N 3°26′37″W / 54.3768581°N 3.4435811°W / 54.3768581; -3.4435811Grid referenceSD063988Owned byNetwork RailManaged byNorthern TrainsPlatforms2Tracks2Other informationStation codeDRIClassificationDfT category F2HistoryOriginal companyWhitehaven and Furness Junction RailwayPre-groupingFurness RailwayPost-groupingLondon Midland and Scottish Railway
British Rail (London Midland Region)Key dates19 July 1849Opened as Drigg for Wastwater1955Renamed DriggPassengers2018/19 9,1562019/20 8,4042020/21 1,8922021/22 5,5402022/23 6,258

Location
Drigg Location in Copeland, Cumbria Show map of the former Borough of Copeland Drigg Location in Cumbria, England Show map of Cumbria

Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Drigg is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. The station, situated 31 miles (50 km) north-west of Barrow-in-Furness, serves the villages of Drigg and Holmrook in Cumbria. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.

The station is unstaffed, but the main station building still stands and is in private commercial use as a cafe and craft shop.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

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.^[4]

Services

Northern Trains Route 6
v t e
Cumbrian Coast, Furness & Windermere lines
Carlisle Dalston Wigton Aspatria Maryport Flimby Workington Harrington Parton Whitehaven Corkickle St Bees Nethertown Braystones Sellafield Seascale Drigg Ravenglass for Eskdale Bootle Silecroft Millom Green Road Foxfield Kirkby-in-Furness Askam Barrow-in-Furness Roose Dalton Ulverston Cark & Cartmel Kents Bank Grange-over-Sands Arnside Silverdale Carnforth Windermere Staveley Burneside Kendal Oxenholme Lake District Lancaster Preston Chorley Bolton Deansgate Manchester Oxford Road Manchester Piccadilly Manchester Airport
Braystones & Nethertown 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.^[5] Seven northbound and nine southbound trains call if required.

References

External links

• Media related to Drigg railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Train times and station information for Drigg railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Seascale		Northern Trains Cumbrian Coast line		Ravenglass
	Historical railways
Seascale		Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway		Ravenglass