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| Bootle Station, Hycemoor | ||
| Bootle Station | ||
| site name:- | Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway | |
| locality:- | Hycemoor | |
| civil parish:- | Bootle (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway station | |
| locality type:- | level crossing | |
| coordinates:- | SD09368928 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD0989 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD08 | |
| SummaryText:- | Opened 1849. | |
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 BMS87.jpg Old station building. (taken 30.9.2006)  BMS88.jpg Cast iron downpipe head:- "18 FR 73" (taken 30.9.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 85 11) placename:- Bootle Station item:- railway signal; crane; railway bridge |
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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 enlargeCSRY0108.jpg "Bootle Station / Coal Depot / S.P. / Crane / Station House" |
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 BMS89.jpg Platform shelter. (taken 30.9.2006)  BMS90.jpg View N. (taken 30.9.2006)  BMS91.jpg View S. (taken 30.9.2006)  BMS92.jpg Signal box. (taken 30.9.2006)  BMS84.jpg Level crossing (taken 30.9.2006)  BMS85.jpg Level crossing, and signalman working gates. (taken 30.9.2006)  BMS86.jpg Level crossing, and signalman working gates; the hi-vis jacket reads:- "Network Rail" (taken 30.9.2006) |
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| hearsay:- |
A wagon of a munitions train from Bootle Ammunition Factory caught fire just outside
the station, 22 March 1945. The fireman, George Stubbs, uncoupled a burning wagon
but when it blew up the driver was killed. George Stubbs also saved an oncoming passenger
train from harm. He was awarded the George Medal for gallantry. |
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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:- | 1873 |
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| date:- | 1885 |
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| New building. |
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