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Cleator Moor Station, Cleator Moor
Cleator Moor Station
Crossfield Goods Depot
site name:-   Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway
locality:-   Cleator Moor
civil parish:-   Cleator Moor (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   NY01681525
1Km square:-   NY0115
10Km square:-   NY01
SummaryText:-   1st station, opened 1857; closed 1866; remained as Crossfield Goods.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 67 12) 
item:-  railway milepostrailway bridge
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.
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"Station / M.P."
at Cleator Moor; the line running off NW goes to the Hematite Ironworks 

evidence:-   probably old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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"CLEATOR"
station on railway 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
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