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Brampton Junction Station, Brampton
Brampton Station
Brampton Junction Station
Milton Station
site name:-   Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
site name:-   Brampton Railway
civil parish:-   Brampton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   NY55035996
1Km square:-   NY5559
10Km square:-   NY55
SummaryText:-   Opened as Milton Station, with the railway 1836; renamed Brampton Station 1870; renamed Brampton Junction Station 1885; then as Brampton Station, Cumbria, from 1971.

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BOD76.jpg (taken 7.9.2007)  
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BOD78.jpg  Footbridge.
(taken 7.9.2007)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 18 9) 
placename:-  Milton Station
item:-  railway signal; railway milepost
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 (Cmd 18 10) 
"Milton Station / S.P. / M.P."
 Post Office maps

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BOD77.jpg  View W.
(taken 7.9.2007)  
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BOD81.jpg  View E.
(taken 7.9.2007)  

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BOD84.jpg  Footbridge and willow herb.
(taken 7.9.2007)  
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BPX36.jpg  Footbridge.
(taken 16.1.2009)  
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BOD80.jpg  Distant signal.
(taken 7.9.2007)  
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BOD83.jpg  Distant signal.
(taken 7.9.2007)  
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CFC31.jpg  DMU to Newcastle.
(taken 10.6.2016)  
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CFC32.jpg  DMU to Newcastle.
(taken 10.6.2016)  
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BOD79.jpg  Disused signal box.
(taken 7.9.2007)  
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BOD82.jpg  There was once a level crossing.
(taken 7.9.2007)  
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BPX37.jpg  Route of the tramroad, Brampton Railway, to NW through Rowbank Wood.
(taken 16.1.2009)  
hearsay:-  
 Thomas Edmondson was station master here from 1836. He invented the familiar pasteboard railway ticket, at first a small square, ready numbered and stacked in a spring loaded tube for each destination. He also invented a machine for dating the ticket as it was issued, making a clunk-clunk noise that will be remembered by some. A prototype dating machine was made by Ralph Cairns, watchmaker in Brampton, which was later made commercially by John Blaylock, Carlisle. The system was adopted by many railways.

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BVT31.jpg  Edmondson ticket machine.
(taken 11.12.2011)  courtesy of the National Railway Museum.
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