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| Lowgill Station, Lowgill | ||
| Lowgill Station | ||
| site name:- | Lancaster and Carlisle Railway | |
| locality:- | Lowgill | |
| locality:- | Dillicar | |
| civil parish:- | Grayrigg (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway station | |
| coordinates:- | SD62249734 (?) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD6297 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD69 | |
| SummaryText:- | 2nd Lowgill Station, opened 1861; closed 1960. | |
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 BMW77.jpg Station sign and mile marker on a house in Railway Terrace. (taken 20.10.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 34 12) item:- railway signal; railway milepost; 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 enlargeCSRY0209.jpg "Station / S.P. / M.P." |
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| evidence:- | possibly old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H placename:- Low Gill Station |
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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. GAR2SD69.jpg "Low Gill Station" dot by railway item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- LMS 1920s maps |
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| source data:- | Railway map, lithograph, 23 pages of strip maps, The Journey in
Brief, the Route London to Carlisle, published by the London
Midland and Scottish Railway, LMS, 1920s. click to enlargeLS3p26.jpg "TO EDINBURGH 142 / LOW GILL / FROM LONDON 258" item:- JandMN : 95.2 Image © see bottom of page |
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