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Flimby Station, Maryport
Flimby Station
site name:-   Whitehaven Junction Railway
locality:-   Flimby
civil parish:-   Maryport (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   NY02073381
1Km square:-   NY0233
10Km square:-   NY03
SummaryText:-   Opened 1846.


photograph
BNR01.jpg (taken 14.5.2007)  
photograph
BNR04.jpg  Footbridge.
(taken 14.5.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 44 16) 
placename:-  Flimby Station
item:-  railway signal
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
image  click to enlarge
CSRY0061.jpg
"Flimby Station / S.P."

evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Flimbye
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
image
JAN3NY03.jpg
"Flimbye"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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GAR2NY03.jpg
"Station"
dot by railway 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
BNR03.jpg  View N.
(taken 14.5.2007)  
photograph
BNR02.jpg  View S.
(taken 14.5.2007)  

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