page_title: Cleator Moor West railway station
hierarchical_section_title: Cleator Moor West railway station
caption_attribution_description: English: Near site of Cleator Moor West station, 1986, Believed to be a northward view along the course of the former Cleator &amp; Workington Junction line, which was built, along with various other lines, for transporting haematite iron ore from the rich mines in the area to the iron- and steel-works in the Workington and Harrington Disticts. For 100 years from the 1860s this area, nowadays almost reclaimed by Nature, had been heavily industrialised and honeycombed by railways: the remnants of spoil-heaps from the iron and coal mines can be seen on the horizon. [I was not entirely sure exactly where I was when I took this photograph, nor am I very familiar with the complexity of the former railways of West Cumberland, so would welcome further discussion about it!]
context_page_description: Cleator Moor had three passenger stations:
  The original 1857 Cleator Moor station which became a goods station when it was replaced in 1866
  Its 1866 replacement which went on to be known as Cleator Moor East, and
  The rival 1879 station which went on to be known as Cleator Moor West.
  Cleator Moor West railway station was opened as "Cleator Moor" by the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway in 1879. It served the growing industrial town of Cleator Moor, Cumbria, England.
context_section_description: Cleator Moor had three passenger stations:
  The original 1857 Cleator Moor station which became a goods station when it was replaced in 1866
  Its 1866 replacement which went on to be known as Cleator Moor East, and
  The rival 1879 station which went on to be known as Cleator Moor West.
  This article is about Cleator Moor West.
  Cleator Moor West railway station was opened as "Cleator Moor" by the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway (C&WJR) in 1879. It served the growing industrial town of Cleator Moor, Cumbria, England.
caption: Near site of Cleator Moor West station, 1986
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