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| Kendal and Windermere Railway | |||
| Pointless Railway | |||
| civil parish:- | Kendal (formerly Westmorland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Strickland Ketel (formerly Westmorland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Nether Staveley (formerly Westmorland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Hugill (formerly Westmorland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Windermere (formerly Westmorland) | ||
| county:- | Cumbria | ||
| locality type:- | railway | ||
| SummaryText:- | from Oxenholme on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, through Kendal, Burneside, Staveley, to Windermere, Westmorland. One long siding; no points. | ||
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 BLK49.jpg Train leaving Oxenholme Station. (taken 18.11.2005)  BLV93.jpg Railway N from Plantation Bridge. (taken 15.4.2006) |
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| evidence:- | poem:- |
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| source data:- | "ON THE PROJECTED KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY." "Is there no nook of English ground secure From rash assault? Schemes of retirement sown In Youth, and 'mid the busy world kept pure As when their earliest fowesr of hope were blown, Must perish. How can they this blight endure? And must he, too, his old delights disown, Who scorns a false utilitarian lure, 'Mid his paternal fields at random thrown? Baffle the threat, bright scene, from Orrest Head, Given to the pausing traveller's rapturous glance! Plead for thy peace thou beautiful romance Of Nature! And if human hearts be dead - Speak, passing winds:- ye torrents with pure, strong, And constant voice, protest against the wrong" William Wordsworth, 12 October 1844:- |
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| evidence:- | poem:- |
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| source data:- | "The hour may come, nay must, in these our days, When the harsh steam-car with the cataract's shout, Shall mingle its swift roll, and motley rout Of multitudes these mountain echoes raise. And thou, the patriarch of these pleasant ways, Canst hardly grudge that crowded streets send out, In Sabbath glee, the sons of care and doubt, To read these scenes by light of thine own lays. Disordered laughter and encounter rude, The Poet's finer sense perchance may pain; Yet many a glade and nook of solitude, For a quiet walk and thought will still remain, Where the poor intruders may elude, Nor loose one golden dream for all their homely gain." Monckton Miles, about 1844 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H placename:- Kendal and Windermere Railway |
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| source data:- | Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and
Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John
Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s. GAR2SD49.jpg "Kendal &Windermere Railway" triple line, light bold light, railway  GAR2SD59.jpg item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet
Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76. goto sourcePage 3:- "The traveller arrives [at Windermere], we must suppose, by the railway from Kendal, having been dropped at the Oxenholme Junction by the London train from the south, or the Edinburgh and Carlisle train from the north." "..." goto sourcePage 5:- "... When the traveller foot or horseback sees certain reaches of Lake Windermere from Orrest Head, lying deep down below him, he knows he is coming near the end of the railway, which cannot yet plunge and climb as our old mail roads must do, ... The old coach road over Orrest Head and the railway meet at the new village of Windermere, ..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Prior 1874 map 1 placename:- London and North Western Railway |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving or lithograph? Winander Mere, scale
about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett,
Windermere, Westmorland, 1874. click to enlargePI03M1.jpg "London &N.W. Railway" double line, chequered; railway item:- private collection : 133.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old advertisement:- Jenkinson 1875 B placename:- London and North Western Railway |
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| source data:- | Advertisement for the London and North Western Railway, published by Edward Stanford,
55 Charing Cross, London, 1884. click to enlargeJK1208.jpg Adverts p.14 at the back of Jenkinson's Smaller Practical Guide to Carlisle, Gilsland, Roman Wall and Neighbourhood. item:- Armitt Library : A1717.9 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- LMS 1939 B |
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| source data:- |  click to enlargeLMS6Cm.jpg "MAP OF LMS RAILWAY" item:- JandMN : 1016.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BLW38.jpg (taken 18.4.2006)  BLW36.jpg (taken 18.4.2006) |
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| hearsay:- |
On the initiative of Cornelius Nicholson, owner of the paper mill in Burneside, and
others the railway was proposed August 1844, to run from Oxenholme to Low Wood between
Bowness and Ambleside. An Opposition Committe set up under Professor Wilson, October
1844. And William Wordsworth reacted. Opposition was dissipated when the line was
cut back to end at Birthwaite, now Windermere. |
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| Authorised by Act of Parliament, Victoria 8 and 9 cap 32: for making a railway from
the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway to Birthwaite in the parish of Windermere, to be
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| "The Kendal and Windermere Railway" |
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| The railway ended at Birthwaite, just a tiny settlement; now grown into Windermere. |
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| From 1973 the 10¼mile line has been referred to as a pointless railway; it has no
points, is just one long siding. |
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| Smith, Dick: 2002: Kendal and Windermere Railway: Cumbrian Railways Association::
ISBN 0 9549232 0 X Mellentin, Julian: 1980: Kendal and Windermere Railway: Dalesman Books (Clapham, North Yorkshire):: ISBN 0 85206 610 4 |
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| person:- | railway company : Kendal and Windermere Railway |
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| date:- | 1845 to 1858 |
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| person:- | railway company : Lancaster and Carlisle Railway |
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| date:- | 1858 to 1879 |
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| person:- | railway company : London and North Western Railway; LNWR |
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| date:- | 1879 to 1923 |
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| person:- | railway company : London, Midland and Scottish Railway; LMS |
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| date:- | 1923 to 1948 |
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| person:- | railway company : British Railways; BR |
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| date:- | 1948 |
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| goes through:- | engine shed, Oxenholme (3) Kendal Junction, Oxenholme railway bridge, Oxenholme engine shed, Oxenholme (2) Oxenholme Station, Oxenholme railway milepost, Oxenholme engine shed, Oxenholme [railway bridge, Kendal (10)] railway bridge, Kendal (17) railway milepost, Kendal railway bridge, Kendal (9) railway bridge, Kendal (6) railway bridge, Kendal (4) railway bridge, Kendal (8) Kendal Station, Kendal30.6.1845: authorized - 22.9.1846: opened - 1972: closed, goods - |
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| goes through:- | Kendal Station, Kendal Iron Bridge, Kendal Kendal goods branch, Kendal railway bridge, Kendal [railway bridge, Kendal (11)] [railway bridge, Kendal (12)] [railway bridge, Kendal (13)] [railway bridge, Kendal (14)] [railway bridge, Kendal (15)] level crossing, Burneside railway milepost, Burneside Burneside Station, Burneside Burneside Junction, Burneside level crossing, Burneside (2) railway bridge, Strickland Ketel railway bridge, Strickland Ketel (2) Plantation Bridge, Nether Staveley railway bridge, Nether Staveley (3) level crossing, Staveley railway bridge, Staveley Staveley Station, Staveley railway bridge, Nether Staveley (2) railway bridge, Hugill railway milepost, Windermere railway crossing, Windermere (2) railway crossing, Windermere railway bridge, Windermere engine shed, Windermere Windermere Station, Windermere30.6.1845: authorized - 20.4.1847: opened - 4.1969: closed, goods - |
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