[4] Dearham Bridge station was opened by the Maryport & Carlisle Railway (M&CR) in 1840.

It was one of several lightly used intermediate stations on this route to be closed (in 1950) by the British Transport Commission in the years immediately after the nationalisation of the UK railway network.

[4] In the 19th century coal was brought down a tramway from pits on Broughton Moor and transferred to M&CR trains at the station.

[5] The station is known for a haunting related to a man who threw his new-born child under a train here, killing the infant.

Now, as a train is about to enter the tunnel, the child can occasionally be heard screaming before being hit.