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| Duddon Viaduct, Broughton West | ||
| Duddon Viaduct | ||
| site name:- | Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway | |
| site name:- | Duddon, River | |
| civil parish:- | Broughton West (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway viaduct | |
| locality type:- | viaduct | |
| coordinates:- | SD200856 | |
| coordinates:- | SD204856 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2085 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD28 | |
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 BMS50.jpg (taken 30.9.2006)  BMS51.jpg (taken 30.9.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 10 3) |
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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. OS County Series (Lan 10 4)  click to enlargeCSRY0115.jpg "Viaduct" from near High Shaw to Foxfield Point |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet
Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76. goto sourcePage 107:- "... The coast railway is seen crossing the estuary,- its cobweb tracery showing well against the sand or the water. ... Near at hand Broughton Tower rises from the woods above the little town: but there is nothing else to detain the eye. ..." |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Linton 1852 placename:- Duddon Viaduct item:- boat; fishing boat |
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| source data:- | Print, engraving, Duddon Viaduct, Broughton West, Cumberland, drawn by R Shepherd,
engraved by W H Lizars, Edinburgh, published by Whittaker and Co, London, and by R
Gibson and Son and by Callander and Dixon, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1852. click to enlargeLN1E11.jpg Tipped in opposite p.104 of A Handbook of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway, by John Linton. printed at bottom left, right, centre:- "R. Shepherd delt. / W. H. Lizars sc. / DUDDON VIADUCT" item:- Armitt Library : A1158.12 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
There was a scheme to build an embankment across Duddon Sands, in a report by John
Hague and George Stephenson for a Cumberland coast railway route to Scotland, 1837-38;
52000 acres of land would be reclaimed. In 1867 the idea was revived, and the Furness
Railway started on work by making a cutting near Askam, quickly abandoned. |
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| hearsay:- |
Timber trestle of 50 spans, 592 yards long. Replaced by cast iron about 1874. |
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