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| Braithwaite and Buttermere Railway | |||
| civil parish:- | Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Buttermere (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| county:- | Cumbria | ||
| locality type:- | railway (proposed) | ||
| 10Km square:- | NY21 | ||
| 10Km square:- | NY22 | ||
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| evidence:- | old railway map:- |
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| source data:- | Railway map, colour lithograph, the proposed line of the Braithwaite and Buttermere
Railway, Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1mile, 1883 click to enlargeM081.jpg Railway map, colour lithograph, the proposed line of the Braithwaite and Buttermere Railway, Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1mile, 1883 printed at bottom left, right, centre:- "From J. B. Baddeley's Lake District. / J. Bartholomew, Edinr. / PROPOSE LINE OF RAIL INDICATED BY THE RED LINE" printed at with scale line:- "English Miles"  click to enlargePR1704.jpg  click to enlargePR1705.jpg item:- Armitt Library : 1958.4047 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
A Bill was put before Parliament for a railway to climb to the slate quarries at Honister,
1882; it failed. |
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| goes through:- | [Braithwaite Station, Above Derwent] Honister Slate Quarry, Borrowdale1882: proposed - |
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