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| Askam Station, Askam in Furness | ||
| Askam Station | ||
| Ireleth Gate Station | ||
| Ireleth Station | ||
| site name:- | Furness Railway | |
| locality:- | Askam in Furness | |
| civil parish:- | Askam and Ireleth (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway station | |
| coordinates:- | SD21497770 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2177 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD27 | |
| SummaryText:- | Opened as Ireleth Gate Station 1851; closed 1857; reopened as Ireleth Station 1858; renamed Askham Station 1875. | |
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 CEJ35.jpg (taken 20.11.2015)  CEJ33.jpg (taken 20.11.2015) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 15 4) placename:- Askam Station item:- railway signal; weighing machine |
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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. OS County Series (Lan 15 8)  click to enlargeCSRY0127.jpg "Askam Station / W.M. / S.P. / S.B. / Cattle Pens / ... / Railway Inn / ..." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "WAITING ROOM ON EAST SIDE OF LINE AT ASKAM IN FURNESS RAILWAY STATION / / DUDDON ROAD / ASKAM AND IRELETH / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388445 / SD2150577713" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Waiting room. Early C20, altered. Brick with weather-boarded sides, slated roof. Single storey; rectangular. Catslide roof projection on brackets forms near-central entry; continuous concrete sill to weather-boarding and simple casements (some blocked). Roll-moulded ridges, oversailing verges with pendants. Left gable formed by herringboned truss on brackets. Included for group value with the other station buildings (qv)." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "TICKET OFFICE AND WAITING ROOM AT ASKAM IN FURNESS RAILWAY STATION / / DUDDON ROAD / ASKAM AND IRELETH / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388444 / SD2148577699" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Station buildings (ticket office, waiting room and lavatories) on west side of railway track. 1877. By Paley and Austin. For Furness Railway. Rock-faced and ashlar red sandstone with graduated slate roofs. Ticket office stands at right-angles to the long low waiting room, ancillary rooms and lavatories which form the principal range running N/S parallel to the railway. Ticket office: 1 storey and attic, 3 windows to platform side. Chamfered plinth, tall segmentally-arched windows, impost band and string course over: 6-pane casements, clock to central window. Round-arched gable window under deeply overhanging verges with pendent finial, external end stack to rear has offsets and cornice. Platform range: catslide roof forms pentice on 10 shaped angle brackets to cover a rank of windows with glazing bars (some boarded up), sliding door to waiting room and 3 other doorways; 2 corniced ridge stacks. North end of range ends with an elaborate gentlemen's lavatory, the roof hipped but broken by a tier of louvres and supported by shaped brackets. Rear: high plinth; 3 pairs and 2 triplets of windows as to ticket office." "INTERIOR: waiting room has blue and red floor tiling; 5-bay, king-post, collar-rafter roof. Overall an imaginative, varied and careful design by an important architectural partnership. Forms a group with the other station buildings (qv)." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "SIGNAL BOX AND ATTACHED WALLING AT ASKAM IN FURNESS RAILWAY STATION / / DUDDON ROAD / ASKAM AND IRELETH / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388443 / SD2148277674" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Signal box and attached walling. Late C19. Red sandstone rubble, the box part-glazed and part-timbered, slate roof with terracotta cresting. Walls enclose south-west end of platform with the box at the angle. Wall with chamfered coping. Box: 1 storey with basement, 3 basement windows on platform side, glazed box with cross-timbered panel to east, north door reached by external steps and external corbelled stack on west side; hipped roof. These structures form a group with other station buildings (qv)." |
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 CEJ34.jpg (taken 20.11.2015)  CEJ36.jpg (taken 20.11.2015) |
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 BMJ92.jpg View south. (taken 11.7.2006)  BMJ91.jpg View north. (taken 11.7.2006) |
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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:- | 1877 |
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