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Cumwhinton Station, Cumwhinton
Cumwhinton Station
site name:-   Settle and Carlisle Railway
locality:-   Cumwhinton
civil parish:-   Wetheral (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   NY45415312
1Km square:-   NY4553
10Km square:-   NY45
SummaryText:-   Opened 1876; closed 1956.


photograph
BMN27.jpg (taken 19.8.2006)  
Closed; now a house.

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Cumwhinton Station
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CUMWHINTON STATION / / B6263 / WETHERAL / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77780 / NY4541053116"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Railway Station (disused). 1875. Red sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. The main building is on the downside. Single storey. Central booking office with glazed front flanked by gables with three light sash windows. Further bay with lower roof line at each end,two light window. Elaborate pierced bargeboards to all gables. Ashlar stacks with weathering. Upside retains its small shelter in similar style. Constructed for the Settle-Carlisle line of the Midland Railway and although closed remains unaltered and little damaged."


photograph
BMN29.jpg  View N from bridge.
(taken 19.8.2006)  
photograph
BXR82.jpg (taken 30.11.2012)  
photograph
BMN28.jpg (taken 19.8.2006)  

hearsay:-  
In December 1904 a wolf escaped from a private collection at Shotley Bridge. It roamed the fells killing sheep, unsuccessfully hunted by local hunts. It was eventually cut in half by a Midland Railway express train near Cumwhinton. The carcass was taken to Carlisle, crudely stitched together for a postcard photograph by F W Tassel. The wold was 56 inches long, and stood 30 inches high at the shoulder.

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