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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)  
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BVP38.jpg (taken 4.11.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 21 7) 
item:-  Central North Signal Box
item:-  railway signal
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.
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CSRY0131.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)  
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BVP39.jpg  View NW.
(taken 4.11.2011)  
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BVP35.jpg  View SE.
(taken 4.11.2011)  
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BVP36.jpg  Station name.
(taken 4.11.2011)  
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BVP34.jpg  Milepost 29.
(taken 4.11.2011)  
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BVP31.jpg  Signal.
(taken 4.11.2011)  
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BVP32.jpg  Signal.
(taken 4.11.2011)  
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BMO59.jpg  View NW.
(taken 30.8.2006)  

Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Edward G
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
date:-   1882
Clearly not the present building!

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