Sellafield railway station workers at the Sellafield plant, using Mark 2 coaches and Class 37 diesel locomotives hired in from DRS. Sellafield railway station Sellafield railway station serves the nuclear facility of Sellafield in Cumbria, England. It is operated by Northern which provide all passenger services. The station is a stop on the scenic Cumbrian Coast Line, south of . Some through trains to the Furness Line towards stop there. The station, which dates from 1850, is a busy freight location, because much of the nuclear waste for Sellafield's Thorp nuclear fuel reprocessing plant is carried there by train from the docks in
Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station for a prototype fluidised bed combustion (FBC) coal station at Grimethorpe in Yorkshire. Because of this, the UK missed out on pioneering FBC technology, before it became internationally recognised as the best way of burning coal. Sited from Seaton Carew, and in the middle of the industrial complex of Teesside, the station was to be built closer to any major urban area than any nuclear power station site had been. To make this acceptable, the station's reactors were to be housed in prestressed concrete pressure vessels. The construction of the power station which was undertaken by Nuclear Design & Construction