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Penrith Station, Penrith
Penrith Station
site name:-   Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
locality:-   Penrith
civil parish:-   Penrith (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   NY51142990
1Km square:-   NY5129
10Km square:-   NY52
SummaryText:-   Opened with the railway line, 1846.


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BMC59.jpg (taken 12.5.2006)  
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BMC60.jpg (taken 12.5.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 58 4) 
item:-  goods shedengine shedtelegraph officemail bag receivercrane
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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CSRY0183.jpg
"Railway Station / Telegraph Office / Crane / Mile Bag Receiver / ... / Railway Inn / ..."
with goods shed, engine shed, cattle pens, turntable, etc 

evidence:-   old map:- LMS 1920s maps
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.
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"TO EDINBURGH 118¾ / PENRITH / FROM LONDON 281¼"
"Penrith is the junction for Keswick and Whitehaven."
item:-  JandMN : 95.2
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Penrith Station
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"PENRITH STATION / / ULLSWATER ROAD / PENRITH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 72956 / NY5115629902"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Circa 1846. By Sir W Tite for the Lancaster and Carlisle Railwmy. Stone, single storey. Middle part with Tudor entrance and two 2-light windows with stone mullions and small panes. A gabled wing at either side of unequal size, with stone mullioned and transomed windows. Two platforms with iron segmental arched girders with round eye ornament in the spandrels."


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CDD73.jpg  Train.
(taken 29.5.2015)  
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BMC61.jpg (taken 12.5.2006)  
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BMC62.jpg (taken 12.5.2006)  
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CDD74.jpg  Northbound platform.
(taken 29.5.2015)  
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CDD75.jpg  Northbound platform.
(taken 29.5.2015)  
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CDD78.jpg  Herbs for fun, by the Cubs.
(taken 29.5.2015)  


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CDD76.jpg  View N.
(taken 29.5.2015)  
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CDD77.jpg  View S.
(taken 29.5.2015)  

hearsay:-  
Designed by Sir William Tite, built 1846.

hearsay:-  
Sworn evidence from a coachman
"The information of Thomas Brownrigg Coachman to the Revd. Henry Askew Rector of Greystoke taken before Andrew Fleming Hudleston Esq. one of her Mys. Justices of the Peace iin and for the sd. County this 5th. Octr. 1850"
"On Monday the 30th. Septr. I was driving my Master's Carriage with three [horses] from Patterdale to Penrith - on coming near the Penrith Railway Station between 12 and 1 o'clock in the day, as I was on the point of making the turn at the end of the screen wall an engine drawing a goods train came up from the south & entered the sidings where it moved back & forward at intervals letting off the steam which was blown down on the centre of the Turnpike Road adjoining the station. My horses became alarmed and unmanageable. The off-side horse reared & got his fore legs over the Pole & the leader turning suddenly around broke off the end of the pole. Seeing that I was useless on the Box, I applied the lever drag & jumped down to get to the horses' heads for the safety of the Ladies inside, in which I was assisted by the manservant. The horses continued kicking and plunging for at least ten minutes during which I received a severe blow in the chest from the end of the broken pole & it was with the greatest difficulty we prevented the horses from running off with the carriage. During the whole of this time the engine continued moving at intervals & letting off the steam which terrified the horses & made it right impossible for myself & the manservant to hold them, even after they was detached from the Carriage. I shouted loudly for assistance to release the Ladies from the Carriage, & I am positive the people on the Engine must have heard me & seen there was an accident on the Road but the steam was nevertheless let off at intervals in the most dangerous way, coming quite down on the middle of the road. I was obliged to leave the carriage to be taken away by the coachmakers. We got no assistance from any one belonging to the Railway, but some man belonging to Penrith who was getting coals in the station yard came to help us after my mistress had gone there to ask aid. It was at least five minutes before the Ladies were released from the carriage. My horses are perfectly quiet and tractable &I have never before had any accidents with them."
"Tho Brownrigg"
Carlisle RO : D HUD 4/35

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