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| Barrow Central Station, Barrow-in-Furness | ||
| Barrow Central Station | ||
| Barrow-in-Furness Station | ||
| site name:- | Furness Railway | |
| locality:- | Barrow-in-Furness | |
| civil parish:- | Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway station | |
| coordinates:- | SD19996992 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD1969 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD16 | |
| SummaryText:- | Opened as Barrow Central Station with the new line 1882; renamed Barrow-in-Furness Station 1959. | |
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 BMO57.jpg (taken 30.8.2006)  BVP38.jpg (taken 4.11.2011) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 21 7) item:- Central North Signal Box item:- railway signal |
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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. click to enlargeCSRY0131.jpg "Central North Signal Box" part of the station location is at the SE corner |
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 BVP37.jpg (taken 4.11.2011)  BVP39.jpg View NW. (taken 4.11.2011)  BVP35.jpg View SE. (taken 4.11.2011)  BVP36.jpg Station name. (taken 4.11.2011)  BVP34.jpg Milepost 29. (taken 4.11.2011)  BVP31.jpg Signal. (taken 4.11.2011)  BVP32.jpg Signal. (taken 4.11.2011)  BMO59.jpg View NW. (taken 30.8.2006) |
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| Paley and Austin series | ||
| person:- | architect : Paley, Edward G |
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| person:- | architect : Austin, Hubert J |
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| date:- | 1882 |
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| Clearly not the present building! |
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