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| Ambleside Railway | |||
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| Ambleside Light Railway | |||
| civil parish:- | Windermere (formerly Westmorland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | ||
| county:- | Cumbria | ||
| locality type:- | railway (proposed) | ||
| locality type:- | narrow gauge railway | ||
| locality type:- | tramway | ||
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| hearsay:- |
The original proposals for the Kendal and Windermere Railway in the 1840s continued
at least as far as Low Wood on the way to Ambleside, but this extension was dropped
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| A branch extending the Kendal and Windermere Railway to Ambleside was proposed 1886;
it failed. The idea was tried again by the British Electric Traction Co, 1899, under
the Light Railways Act 1896, a 3 feet 6 inch narrow gauge electric tramway; nothing
happened. |
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| The route was from Windermere to Ambleside, Lakes, Cumbria. |
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| At some date there were plans for the railway to go from Windermere through Ambleside,
Grasmere, and Wythburn, to Keswick. |
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| goes through:- |  Windermere Station, Windermere Low Wood, Lakes Ambleside Station, Ambleside1886 - 1899: proposed - |
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| goes through:- | Ambleside Station, Ambleside Grasmere Wythburn, St John's Castlerigg etc Keswick 1890s - ? |
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