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| Brampton Railway | |||
| Lord Carlisle's Railway | |||
| Earl of Carlisle's Railway | |||
| civil parish:- | Brampton (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Nether Denton (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Farlam (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Midgeholme (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| county:- | Cumbria | ||
| locality type:- | railway | ||
| SummaryText:- | from Lambley on the Alston branch railway, to Brampton station and into Brampton town, Cumberland. | ||
| SummaryText:- | Sorry; this record is still confused! | ||
| references:- |  RWY030.jpg |
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| hearsay:- |
A horse and gravity powered wooden wagonway served the Earl of Carlisle's Naworth
Colliery, Nether Denton, to Brampton, Cumbria, from 1799. |
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| The track was laid with iron rails, 4 feet 8 inches gauge, 1809; the line was renewed
about 1836. Steam locomotives hired from the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway were used
from 15 July 1836 though horses continued working to 1881; Rocket worked here 1837-40.
This railway carried the first passengers by steam in Cumbria. The line was leased
to the North Eastern Railway from 29 October 1912. It closed during World War I, from
1917 to 1920; then closed to passengers 29 October 1923. The goods service continued
under the National Coal Board to March 1953. |
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| Rocket ended its working life here and was given by the Thompson Family to the Science
Museum. |
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 click to enlargePR1799.jpg Evers, Henry: 1873: Steam and the Steam Engine: William Collins, Sons and Co (London, Glasgow) |
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| Baxter, Bertram: 1966: Stone Blocks and Iron Rails: David and Charles (Newton Abbot,
Devon) Charters, Jon N: 1971 (?): Brampton Railway: Oakwood Press (Linfield, Surrey) Webb, Brian &Gordon, David A: 1978: Lord Carlisle's Railway: Railway Travel and Correspondence Society (London):: ISBN 0 901115 43 6 |
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| person:- | railway company : London and North Eastern Railway; LNER |
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| date:- | 1923 to 1948 |
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| person:- | railway company : National Coal Board (?); NCB (?) |
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| date:- | 1948 to 1953 |
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| goes through:- |  Lambley Junction, Lambley railway bridge, Lambley railway sidings, Roachburn Pit railway culvert, Tindale railway bridge, Kirkhouse engine shed, Kirkhouse Brampton Junction Station, Brampton29.10.1923: closed, passengers - 3.1953: closed, goods - |
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| goes through:- | Brampton Junction Station, Brampton railway bridge, Brampton Brampton Staith, Brampton 29.10.1923: closed, passengers - 3.1953: closed, goods - |
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| goes through:- | Naworth Colliery, Nether Denton 1799: opened - 1.3.1917 - 1.3.1920 closed, World War I economy measure 29.10.1923: closed, passengers - 3.1953: closed, goods - |
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| goes through:- | Black Sike Coal Pit, Hayton |
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