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Steam Locomotive 43139 being polished up by members of the Cumberland Loco Fans Club before making the last journey along the Carlisle to Silloth railway line.. A CUMBRIAN railway line closed more than half a century ago may reopen as part of an ambitious plan by the area s MP. The line from Carlisle to the seaside town Silloth was closed as part of British Railways chairman Dr Richard Beeching s cuts on railways on September 6, 1964. Now Mark Jenkinson, the MP for the Workington constituency, has submitted a bid to the Restoring Your Railways Fund for a feasibility study to be undertaken on the potential to reintroduce a railway line connecting Silloth and Carlisle.