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Ramsden Dock Station, Barrow Docks
Ramsden Dock Station
site name:-   Furness Railway
site name:-   Ramsden Dock
site name:-   Barrow Docks
locality:-   Barrow Island
locality:-   Barrow-in-Furness
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
locality type:-   railway sidings
coordinates:-   SD19936727 (?) 
1Km square:-   SD1967
10Km square:-   SD16
SummaryText:-   Opened 1881; closed 1915.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 21 15) 
placename:-  Ramsden Dock 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.

evidence:-   old text:- Admiralty 1933
placename:-  Ramsden Dock Station
item:-  cranes
source data:-   image AY01p382, button  goto source
Page 382:-  "..."
"Port facilities. - All the wharves and quays in the docks, and also Ramsden Dock Station wharf, are well equipped with cranes and other appliances; ... There is also ample warehouse accommodation."

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