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| Leven Viaduct, Egton with Newland | ||
| Leven Viaduct | ||
| site name:- | Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway | |
| site name:- | Leven, River | |
| locality:- | Leven Estuary | |
| civil parish:- | Egton with Newland (formerly Lancashire) | |
| civil parish:- | Lower Allithwaite (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway viaduct | |
| locality type:- | viaduct | |
| coordinates:- | SD31927871 | |
| coordinates:- | SD33157793 (?) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3178 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD37 | |
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 BWV38.jpg From Tridley point. (taken 13.7.2012)  BPO60.jpg Train, travelling south. (taken 8.8.2008) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 16 4) item:- railway milepost |
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| 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. click to enlargeCSRY0159.jpg "Tridley Point / M.P. Carnforth 17" W end of viaduct |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 17 1) placename:- Leven Viaduct item:- railway signal |
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| 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. click to enlargeCSRY0160.jpg "S.P." in the middle labelled:- "Leven Viaduct" E end of viaduct; and the start of Capes Head embankment |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Waugh 1860 |
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| source data:- | Print, engraving, View from the Leven Viaduct, Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway, Egton
with Newland, Lancashire, drawn by T H Wilson, published by Alexander Ireland and
Co, 22 Market Street, Manchester, 1860. click to enlargeWU0105.jpg On p.27 of Over Sands to the Lakes, by Edwin Waugh. printed at bottom left:- "THW" printed at bottom:- "VIEW FROM THE LEVEN VIADUCT." item:- Armitt Library : A1082.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Philip/Wilson 1890s |
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| source data:- | Print, engraving, Leven Viaduct, published by George Philip and
Son, London, Philip, Son and Nephew, Liverpool, Lancashire, and
Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, about 1895. click to enlargePW1E04.jpg "LEVEN VIADUCT." item:- JandMN : 58.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BPO59.jpg Ulverston Sands, and railway viaduct. (taken 8.8.2008)  BMJ02.jpg Ulverston Sands, and railway viaduct. (taken 10.7.2006)  Click to enlarge BWV30.jpg (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV39.jpg (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV40.jpg (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV41.jpg (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV42.jpg View E. (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV43.jpg View W. (taken 13.7.2012) |
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 CCI37.jpg Train, nuclear waste on its way to Sellafield. (taken 5.2.2015) |
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| hearsay:- |
Cast iron pillars, 600 yards long, with an opening span for shipping till 1860s. Clad
in stone about 1915. |
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| Designed by James Brunlees, 1856-57. |
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| hearsay:- |
A south westerly gale, 27 February 1903, brought down telegraph wires at the east
end of the viaduct which fouled a down train, a mail train from Carnforth to Barrow-in-Furness.
The train had already had the same sort of trouble near the Kent Viaduct. However,
the wires did not seem to harm the train and the driver continued. As the train ran
onto the viaduct the brakes came on and stopped the train; a wire had lifted a vacuum
brake hose off its plug. The fireman sorted the problem. As he went back to his engine
he saw the first two vans tipped over by the wind, onto the up line. The second guard
left his van and walked up to the head guard; as he entered that van it tipped over.
By the time the two guards had escaped a pile of luggage the whole train was on its
side, except the locomotive. The guards rushed to turn off the gas of the gas lit
carriages, preventing a fire. Traffic was stopped; no one was killed though everyone
was shaken up and injured. |
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| An up train would have been blown off the viaduct into the estuary. |
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| The train was - 4 coupled tender locomotive, Furness Railway mail van, two LNWR vans,
two LNWR carriages, one more LNWR van - all these six wheelers, then a LNWR bogie
brake van, a Furness Railway six wheel carriage, a Furness Railway brake van and a
Midland Railway brake van. |
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| The harbour master at Barrow-in-Furness recorded a mean wind speed of 100mph, judging
that gusts rreached 120mph. |
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