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Calthwaite Station, Hesket
Calthwaite Station
Station House
site name:-   Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
locality:-   Calthwaite
civil parish:-   Hesket (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   railway station (ex) 
coordinates:-   NY47394059
1Km square:-   NY4740
10Km square:-   NY44
SummaryText:-   Opened 1855; closed 1952.


photograph
BTP86.jpg  Station House is all that remians of the station?
(taken 8.10.2010)  
photograph
BTP87.jpg  Chimney, old stonework.
(taken 8.10.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 39) 
placename:-  Calthwaite Station
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.
"Calthwaite Station"
a separate  "Waiting Room"
plotted at NY47394050 

evidence:-   old map:- LMS 1920s maps
source data:-   Railway map, lithograph, 23 pages of strip maps, The Journey in Brief, the Route London to Carlisle, published by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, LMS, 1920s.
image  click to enlarge
LS3p29.jpg
"TO EDINBURGH 111½ / CALTHWAITE / FROM LONDON 288½"
item:-  JandMN : 95.2
Image © see bottom of page

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