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| Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway | |||
| civil parish:- | Haverthwaite (formerly Lancashire) | ||
| civil parish:- | Colton (formerly Lancashire) | ||
| county:- | Cumbria | ||
| locality type:- | railway | ||
| locality type:- | museum | ||
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 8 14) placename:- Windermere branch |
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| 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. |
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| hearsay:- |
When the Lakeside branch railway closed, 1967, a Lakeside Railway Estates Co was set
up, with an associated Lakeside Railway Society. There was the usual run of upsets
for preservation attempts.. The line was lifted Haverthwaite southwards 1971, and
a new trunk road laid over part of this section. |
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| The northern section was re-opened 1973. |
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| Quayle, H I &Jenkins, S C: 1977: Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway: Dalesman Publishing
(Clapham, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 409 8 |
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| person:- | railway company : Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway |
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| date:- | 1973 |
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| person:- | railway company : Lakeside Railway Estates Co |
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| person:- | society : Lakeside Railway Society |
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| also see:- |  Lakeside branch railway |
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| goes through:- | Bare Syke Tunnel, Haverthwaite Haverthwaite Station, Haverthwaite Haverthwaite East Tunnel, Haverthwaite railway bridge, Backbarrow railway bridge, Haverthwaite (3) railway bridge, Colton (4) railway bridge, Colton Newby Bridge Station, Colton railway bridge, Colton (3) [railway bridge, Colton (2)] [Windermere Lakeside Station, Colton] 1973: opened - |
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