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Askam Station, Askam in Furness
Askam Station
Ireleth Gate Station
Ireleth Station
site name:-   Furness Railway
locality:-   Askam in Furness
civil parish:-   Askam and Ireleth (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   SD21497770
1Km square:-   SD2177
10Km square:-   SD27
SummaryText:-   Opened as Ireleth Gate Station 1851; closed 1857; reopened as Ireleth Station 1858; renamed Askham Station 1875.


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CEJ35.jpg (taken 20.11.2015)  
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CEJ33.jpg (taken 20.11.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 15 4) 
placename:-  Askam Station
item:-  railway signalweighing machine
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.
OS County Series (Lan 15 8) 
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CSRY0127.jpg
"Askam Station / W.M. / S.P. / S.B. / Cattle Pens / ... / Railway Inn / ..."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WAITING ROOM ON EAST SIDE OF LINE AT ASKAM IN FURNESS RAILWAY STATION / / DUDDON ROAD / ASKAM AND IRELETH / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388445 / SD2150577713"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Waiting room. Early C20, altered. Brick with weather-boarded sides, slated roof. Single storey; rectangular. Catslide roof projection on brackets forms near-central entry; continuous concrete sill to weather-boarding and simple casements (some blocked). Roll-moulded ridges, oversailing verges with pendants. Left gable formed by herringboned truss on brackets. Included for group value with the other station buildings (qv)."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"TICKET OFFICE AND WAITING ROOM AT ASKAM IN FURNESS RAILWAY STATION / / DUDDON ROAD / ASKAM AND IRELETH / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388444 / SD2148577699"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Station buildings (ticket office, waiting room and lavatories) on west side of railway track. 1877. By Paley and Austin. For Furness Railway. Rock-faced and ashlar red sandstone with graduated slate roofs. Ticket office stands at right-angles to the long low waiting room, ancillary rooms and lavatories which form the principal range running N/S parallel to the railway. Ticket office: 1 storey and attic, 3 windows to platform side. Chamfered plinth, tall segmentally-arched windows, impost band and string course over: 6-pane casements, clock to central window. Round-arched gable window under deeply overhanging verges with pendent finial, external end stack to rear has offsets and cornice. Platform range: catslide roof forms pentice on 10 shaped angle brackets to cover a rank of windows with glazing bars (some boarded up), sliding door to waiting room and 3 other doorways; 2 corniced ridge stacks. North end of range ends with an elaborate gentlemen's lavatory, the roof hipped but broken by a tier of louvres and supported by shaped brackets. Rear: high plinth; 3 pairs and 2 triplets of windows as to ticket office."
"INTERIOR: waiting room has blue and red floor tiling; 5-bay, king-post, collar-rafter roof. Overall an imaginative, varied and careful design by an important architectural partnership. Forms a group with the other station buildings (qv)."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SIGNAL BOX AND ATTACHED WALLING AT ASKAM IN FURNESS RAILWAY STATION / / DUDDON ROAD / ASKAM AND IRELETH / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388443 / SD2148277674"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Signal box and attached walling. Late C19. Red sandstone rubble, the box part-glazed and part-timbered, slate roof with terracotta cresting. Walls enclose south-west end of platform with the box at the angle. Wall with chamfered coping. Box: 1 storey with basement, 3 basement windows on platform side, glazed box with cross-timbered panel to east, north door reached by external steps and external corbelled stack on west side; hipped roof. These structures form a group with other station buildings (qv)."


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CEJ34.jpg (taken 20.11.2015)  
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CEJ36.jpg (taken 20.11.2015)  


photograph
BMJ92.jpg  View south.
(taken 11.7.2006)  
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BMJ91.jpg  View north.
(taken 11.7.2006)  

Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Edward G
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
date:-   1877
New building.

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