Talk:Tarbrax railway station

Passenger station

Are we sure this was a passenger station? The branch was only a glorified siding, and there is no reference elsewhere to a passenger station, apart from some derivative sites that merely repeat this text, copied from here. Afterbrunel (talk) 20:27, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

I see no indication of a passenger station on old OS maps. I'll drop a note at WikiProject Stations to see if anyone can shed any light on the matter. Deor (talk) 13:25, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

It's not listed in Butt. Nor is it listed in

• Croughton, Godfrey; Kidner, R.W.; Young, Alan (1982). Private and Untimetabled Railway Stations. Salisbury: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-281-1.

Old OS maps show several mineral lines, one of which branched off the main line at Cobbinshaw. Some of these are also shown on the Ian Allan Pre-Grouping Atlas (p. 30 section C4). I would say that there was no actual station as such, probably just wagon loading facilities for whatever the shale oil that was mined in that area. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:55, 19 October 2012 (UTC) amended Redrose64 (talk) 12:53, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

It's not listed either in {{Quick-Stations}} and after looking up the site in Cobb (Cobb, M.H. (2006) [2003]. The Railways of Great Britain: A Historical Atlas. Vol. 2. Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan. ISBN 978-0-7110-3236-1.), I find on page 532 the sidings to which Redrose refers. More precisely, there were two sidings, one leading to South Cobbinshaw colliery and the other to "Tarbrax Oil Works", which were opened to traffic in 1869 and closed in the "1950s". No reference is made to any station. A helpful website on the oilworks shows old OS maps which reveal very clearly that there were only sidings here. This page talks of an "excursion" to Tarbrax but it could be read as a reference to Cobbinshaw station which was within walking distance. A walk from Cobbinshaw is exactly what the proprietors of the oilworks did in 1890 when they visited the site. Lamberhurst (talk) 19:46, 19 October 2012 (UTC)