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| Burlington Quarry tramroad | |||
| site name:- | Burlington Quarry | ||
| civil parish:- | Kirkby Ireleth (formerly Lancashire) | ||
| civil parish:- | Broughton West (formerly Lancashire) | ||
| county:- | Cumbria | ||
| locality type:- | tramroad | ||
| locality type:- | narrow gauge railway | ||
| coordinates:- | SD23968366 (etc) | ||
| 1Km square:- | SD2383 | ||
| 10Km square:- | SD28 | ||
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 11 5) |
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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. click to enlargeCSRY0210.jpg "TRAMWAY/ Incline" |
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| hearsay:- |
An inclined tramroad, 3 feet 2¼inch gauge, was planned from the Kirkby terminus, of
the Furness Railway, up 500 feet to the Earl of Burlington's quarry on Kirkby Moor,
Kirkby Ireleth, Cumbria, 1844. |
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| person:- | railway company : Furness Railway; FR |
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| date:- | 1844 |
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| goes through:- | [Kirkby Station, Kirkby Ireleth] Kirkby Moor Quarry, Kirkby Ireleth23.5.1844: authorized - |
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