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descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
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Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by
Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W
Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William
Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman,
Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd,
Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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Page 3:- "... Mr. Stephenson proposes in his line of Railway, intended to connect Preston with
Carlisle and Glasgow, to carry an embankment across these Sands [Lancaster Sands],
by which project an immense quantity of land would also be acquired."
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George Stephenson reported to the Whitehaven Committee of the Grand Caledonian Railway
on the relative merits of a west coast main line going inland via Shap Summit, or
round the coast of Cumbria. From an ocular survey he deduced that the coast route
would be longer, the Shap route would climb higher and be subject to bad weather.
His recommended route was:-
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... from Lancaster, through Morecambe, causeway over Lancaster Sands to Humphrey Head,
Grange, viaduct of the Leven estuary, tunnel through the Furness peninsula, viaduct
over the Duddon estuary, Millom, Ravenglass, Whitehaven, Workington, Maryport, to
Carlisle.
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A government commission in 1839 found in favour of the Shap route.
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