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Port Carlisle Dock and Railway
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Beaumont (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Burgh by Sands (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Bowness (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway
SummaryText:-   from Canal Junction N, Carlisle, through Kirkandrews, Burgh, Drumburgh, Glasson, to Port Carlisle on the Solway Firth, Cumberland.
references:-   image  click to enlarge
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photograph
BPQ84.jpg  Dandy car no.1 built by North British Railway, St Margaret's Works, Edinburgh, 1863; used to 1913.
(taken 2008)  courtesy of the National Railway Museum.

evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
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.
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triple line, light bold light, railway 
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item:-  JandMN : 82.1
Image © see bottom of page

hearsay:-  
The Carlisle Canal Co was re-incorporated to convert the canal to 11 miles of railway, opened 1854, with a 12¾mile extension to Siloth Bay, opened 1856. It was leased to the NBR 1862, and taken over 1880.
Passenger services were still horse drawn in 1914.

person:-   canal company
 : Carlisle Canal Co
date:-   1853

person:-   railway company
 : Port Carlisle Dock and Railway
date:-   1853
 to 1880

person:-   railway company
 : North British RailwayNBR
date:-   1880
 to 1923

person:-   railway company
 : London and North Eastern RailwayLNER
date:-   1923
 to 1948

person:-   railway company
 : British RailwaysBR
date:-   1948
 to 1964

goes through:-    Canal Junction N, Carlisle
 Caldcoats Bridge, Carlisle
 Canal Station, Carlisle
[railway bridge, Beaumont]
[Kirkandrews Station, Beaumont]
 Burgh Station, Burgh by Sands
[railway bridge, Burgh by Sands (2)]
[railway bridge, Burgh by Sands]
 Boustead Hill Bridge, Boustead Hill
 Easton Bridge, Easton
 railway culvert, Easton
 Drumburgh Junction, Bowness
 Glasson Bridge, Glasson
 Glasson Station, Glasson
[railway bridge, Bowness (3)]
[railway bridge, Bowness (2)]
 Port Carlisle Station, Port Carlisle
4.8.1853: authorized -  

1854: opened -  

1932: closed, passengers -  

7.9.1964: closed, goods -  

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