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Wreay Station, Wreay
Wreay Station
site name:-   Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
locality:-   Wreay
civil parish:-   St Cuthbert Without (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   NY43764874
1Km square:-   NY4348
10Km square:-   NY44
SummaryText:-   Opened 1853; closed 1943.


photograph
BTS13.jpg (taken 22.10.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 31 5) 
placename:-  Wreay 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.
"Wreay Station / Signal Post / S.P."

evidence:-   old map:- LMS 1920s maps
source data:-   Railway map, lithograph, 23 pages of strip maps, The Journey in Brief, the Route London to Carlisle, published by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, LMS, 1920s.
image  click to enlarge
LS3p29.jpg
"TO EDINBURGH 105¾ / WREAY / FROM LONDON 294¼"
item:-  JandMN : 95.2
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