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| Caledonian Railway | |||
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| country:- | Scotland | ||
| civil parish:- | Kirkandrews (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Rockcliffe (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Kingmoor (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Carlisle (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| county:- | Cumbria | ||
| locality type:- | railway | ||
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 BRP92.jpg Coat of arms on Carlisle Citadel Station. (taken 29.9.2009) |
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 Solway Junction Railway - from 1895 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H placename:- Caledonian Railway |
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| 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. GAR2NY35.jpg "Caledonian Raily." triple line, light bold light, railway item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Harper 1907 item:- mail coach; stage coach |
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| source data:- | Guidebook, The Manchester and Glasgow Road, by Charles G Harper,
published by Chapman and Hall Ltd, London, 1907. HP01p146.txt Page 146:- "..." "... the irony of fate long ago overtook the canal, in its conversion into a railway." "It was in December, 1846, that the first railway ran into Carlisle from the south. It was the Lancaster and Carlisle" HP01p147.txt Page 147:- "Railway, long since absorbed into the London and North-Western. In September, 1847, the Caledonian Railway, from Carlisle to Moffat, carried on the new methods another stage, and in the following February it was further extended to Glasgow and Edinburgh. It was necessarily the death-blow of the coaches along the main route. ..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- LMS 1939 B |
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| source data:- |  click to enlargeLMS6Cm.jpg "MAP OF LMS RAILWAY" item:- JandMN : 1016.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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| Joy, David: 1983 &1990: Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain; the Lake
Counties (vol.14): David and Charles (Newton Abbot, Devon):: ISBN 0 946537 56 9 Awdry, Christopher: 1990: Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies: Guild Publishing (London) |
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| person:- | railway company : Caledonian Railway; CR |
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| date:- | 1845 to 1923 |
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| person:- | railway company : London, Midland and Scottish Railway; LMS |
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| date:- | 1923 to 1948 |
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| person:- | railway company : British Railways; BR |
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| date:- | 1948 |
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| goes through:- |  Dumfries Line Junction, Gretna railway bridge, Kirkandrews (2) railway bridge, Kirkandrews (3) Millhill Station, Millhill Millhill Bridge, Millhill Gretna Junction, Kirkandrews railway viaduct, Rockcliffe railway footbridge, Rockcliffe Floriston Station, Rockcliffe Floriston Level Crossing, Rockcliffe railway milepost, Rockcliffe railway bridge, Rockcliffe (4) railway bridge, Rockcliffe (3) railway bridge, Rockcliffe Rockcliffe Station, Rockcliffe Kingmoor Motive Power Depot, Etterby railway bridge, Etterby railway bridge, Etterby (2) Port Carlisle Branch Junction, Carlisle railway bridge, Carlisle (3) Carlisle Citadel Station, Carlisle31.7.1845: authorized - 1849 - 1850: opened |
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