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 urban area. Originally planned in 1967, with construction starting in 1969, the station started generating electricity in 1983, and was completed in 1985, initially being operated by the Central Electricity Generating Board. With privatisation of the UK's electric supply industry in 1990, the station has been owned by Nuclear Electric and British Energy, but is now owned and operated by EDF Energy. On 18 October 2010 the British government announced that Hartlepool was one of the eight sites it considered suitable for future nuclear power stations. With the economic success of another advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) nuclear power station at