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| Grange-over-Sands Station, Grange-over-Sands | ||
| Grange-over-Sands Station | ||
| Grange Station | ||
| site name:- | Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway | |
| locality:- | Grange-over-Sands | |
| civil parish:- | Grange-over-Sands (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway station | |
| coordinates:- | SD41197814 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4178 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD47 | |
| SummaryText:- | Opened as Grange Station 1857; renamed Grange-over-Sands Station 1916; renamed Grange Station 1923; renamed Grange-over-Sands Station 1930. What next? | |
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 BLM90.jpg (taken 31.12.2005)  BLM93.jpg (taken 31.12.2005) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 17 4) placename:- Grange Station item:- railway signal; goods shed |
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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 enlargeCSRY0163.jpg "Grange Station / Goods Shed / S.P." no buildings nearby, and only a little in Grange |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "GRANGE OVER SANDS RAILWAY STATION / / STATION SQUARE / GRANGE OVER SANDS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460552 / SD4119178154" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Railway station. Rebuilt c1877. By EG Paley for the Furness Railway. Snecked limestone rubble with rock-faced sandstone dressings and Westmorland slate roof. Main range (N), symmetrical 1:2:1:2:1, the outer bays of 2 storeys, projecting under half-hipped roofs; the rest single-storey. Windows mainly paired sash windows. Central entrance under half-hipped gable, with open timber porch. Ridge stacks. On the south side a timber canted bay window looks out onto the platform, which is covered by a 5-bay glass canopy on cast-iron columns. The southern platform is covered by a similar canopy, with a screen wall containing 5 windows of 3 round-headed lights. Gabled end pavilions have carved bargeboards and windows of 2 round-headed lights separated by shafts." |
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 BLM91.jpg (taken 31.12.2005)  BLM92.jpg (taken 31.12.2005)  BLW23.jpg View east. (taken 18.4.2006)  BYR49.jpg Goods shed, (taken 5.7.2013) |
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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:- | 1865 |
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| date:- | 1872 |
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| New and rebuilt station. |
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