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| Cumwhinton Station, Cumwhinton | ||
| Cumwhinton Station | ||
| site name:- | Settle and Carlisle Railway | |
| locality:- | Cumwhinton | |
| civil parish:- | Wetheral (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway station | |
| coordinates:- | NY45415312 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4553 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY45 | |
| SummaryText:- | Opened 1876; closed 1956. | |
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 BMN27.jpg (taken 19.8.2006) |
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| Closed; now a house. |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Cumwhinton Station |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CUMWHINTON STATION / / B6263 / WETHERAL / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77780 / NY4541053116" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Railway Station (disused). 1875. Red sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. The main building is on the downside. Single storey. Central booking office with glazed front flanked by gables with three light sash windows. Further bay with lower roof line at each end,two light window. Elaborate pierced bargeboards to all gables. Ashlar stacks with weathering. Upside retains its small shelter in similar style. Constructed for the Settle-Carlisle line of the Midland Railway and although closed remains unaltered and little damaged." |
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 BMN29.jpg View N from bridge. (taken 19.8.2006)  BXR82.jpg (taken 30.11.2012)  BMN28.jpg (taken 19.8.2006) |
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| hearsay:- |
In December 1904 a wolf escaped from a private collection at Shotley Bridge. It roamed
the fells killing sheep, unsuccessfully hunted by local hunts. It was eventually cut
in half by a Midland Railway express train near Cumwhinton. The carcass was taken
to Carlisle, crudely stitched together for a postcard photograph by F W Tassel. The
wold was 56 inches long, and stood 30 inches high at the shoulder. |
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