button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Braystones Station, Lowside Quarter
Braystones Station
site name:-   Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway
locality:-   Braystones
civil parish:-   Lowside Quarter (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   NY00090599
1Km square:-   NY0005
10Km square:-   NY00
SummaryText:-   Opened 1849.


photograph
BOS36.jpg (taken 27.2.2008)  
photograph
BOS37.jpg (taken 27.2.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 77 3) 
placename:-  Braystones Station
item:-  railway signal
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.
image  click to enlarge
CSRY0102.jpg
"Braystones Station / Coal Depot / Signal Post"

evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Braystones Station
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
image
GAR2NY00.jpg
"Braystones Sta"
dot by railway 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
BVM18.jpg (taken 7.10.2011)  
photograph
BVM21.jpg  Steps.
(taken 7.10.2011)  
photograph
BOS40.jpg  Halt stop notice.
(taken 27.2.2008)  
photograph
BOS42.jpg  Train coming from the north, from Carlisle.
(taken 27.2.2008)  
photograph
BOS43.jpg  Train coming from Carlisle.
(taken 27.2.2008)  
photograph
BOS44.jpg  Level crossing.
(taken 27.2.2008)  


photograph
BOS39.jpg  View N.
(taken 27.2.2008)  
photograph
BOS41.jpg  View S.
(taken 27.2.2008)  
photograph
BOS38.jpg  View S.
(taken 27.2.2008)  


photograph
BVM19.jpg  View N.
(taken 7.10.2011)  
photograph
BVM20.jpg  View S.
(taken 7.10.2011)  

button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.