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Whitehaven Station, Whitehaven
Whitehaven Station
Whitehaven Bransty Station
Bransty Station
site name:-   Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway
site name:-   Whitehaven Junction Railway
locality:-   Whitehaven
civil parish:-   Whitehaven (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   NX97451867
1Km square:-   NX9718
10Km square:-   NX91
SummaryText:-   2nd station, opened 1874; called Whitehaven Bransty to 1965; now Whitehaven Station.

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BPL87.jpg (taken 15.7.2008)  
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BPL88.jpg (taken 15.7.2008)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 67 2) 
placename:-  Bransty Station
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.
"Bransty Station"
and junction to dock lines. 
nearby there is  "Bransty Hotel (Railway Booking Offices)"

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BPL91.jpg (taken 15.7.2008)  
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BPL89.jpg  View N.
(taken 15.7.2008)  
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BPL93.jpg  View S; the portal of the Whitehaven Tunnel.
(taken 15.7.2008)  
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BST53.jpg  Train from Maryport.
(taken 14.5.2010)  
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BST50.jpg  Train to Barrow.
(taken 14.5.2010)  
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BST54.jpg  Electric Key Token apparatus, made by Tyer and Co.
(taken 14.5.2010)  
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BPL92.jpg  Buffers.
(taken 15.7.2008)  
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BPL90.jpg  Bransty Signal Box
(taken 15.7.2008)  
Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Henry A
date:-   1885
New buildings.
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