The Brampton railway began in 1775 as a wooden wagonway from Tindale Fell Colliery to Brampton Coal Staithe constructed by the Earl of Carlisle.
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It is recorded that coal was being mined here in the early seventeenth century and coal trains were being hauled from Midgeholme Colliery along the Brampton Railway by Stephenson's Rocket, the famous locomotive, in the 1830s.