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Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway
civil parish:-   Haverthwaite (formerly Lancashire)
civil parish:-   Colton (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway
locality type:-   museum

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 8 14) 
placename:-  Windermere branch
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.

hearsay:-  
When the Lakeside branch railway closed, 1967, a Lakeside Railway Estates Co was set up, with an associated Lakeside Railway Society. There was the usual run of upsets for preservation attempts.. The line was lifted Haverthwaite southwards 1971, and a new trunk road laid over part of this section.
The northern section was re-opened 1973.


Quayle, H I &Jenkins, S C: 1977: Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway: Dalesman Publishing (Clapham, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 409 8

person:-   railway company
 : Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway
date:-   1973

person:-   railway company
 : Lakeside Railway Estates Co
person:-   society
 : Lakeside Railway Society

also see:-    Lakeside branch railway

goes through:-    Bare Syke Tunnel, Haverthwaite
 Haverthwaite Station, Haverthwaite
 Haverthwaite East Tunnel, Haverthwaite
 railway bridge, Backbarrow
 railway bridge, Haverthwaite (3)
 railway bridge, Colton (4)
 railway bridge, Colton
 Newby Bridge Station, Colton
 railway bridge, Colton (3)
[railway bridge, Colton (2)]
[Windermere Lakeside Station, Colton]
1973: opened -  

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