SCRCA site 284711: Culgaith Station

The original plans for the Settle & Carlisle Railway did not include a station for Culgaith. In 1875, the Midland Railway Company yielded to local pressure and agreed to provide an additional station on condition that the local council constructed a new road linking the station with the village. The council agreed but, before the road was ready for use, the original railway construction contractors had moved-on to other projects. As a consequence, a completely separate contract had to be drawn-up for the station structures and, perhaps to minimise cost, the Midland Railway Company did not insist on the adoption of the standard designs. Culgaith Station opened to traffic on 1^st April 1880. Its goods facilities were closed on 5^th October 1964 and it became an unstaffed halt on 2^nd January 1967 before finally closing for passenger traffic on 4^th May 1970.