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Millom Station, Millom
Millom Station
Holborn Hill Station
site name:-   Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway
locality:-   Millom
civil parish:-   Millom (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   SD17218019
1Km square:-   SD1780
10Km square:-   SD18
SummaryText:-   Opened as Holborn Hill Station 1850; renamed Millom Station 1866.


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BWO89.jpg (taken 28.5.2012)  
photograph
BWO84.jpg  Train towards Barrow.
(taken 28.5.2012)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 90 2) 
item:-  railway bridge
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.
image  click to enlarge
CSRY0111.jpg
"Station"
at Holborn Hill; there is no place called Millom on the map. 

evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
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.
image
GAR2SD17.jpg
"Station"
dot by railway 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
BWO88.jpg  View NW.
(taken 28.5.2012)  
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BWO87.jpg  View SE.
(taken 28.5.2012)  


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BWO83.jpg  Train towards Carlisle.
(taken 28.5.2012)  
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BWO85.jpg  FR in a cast iron bracket.
(taken 28.5.2012)  
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BJR58.jpg  FR in a cast iron bracket.
(taken 5.8.2005)  
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BWO86.jpg  A different sort of station gardening
(taken 28.5.2012)  
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BWP16.jpg  Goods shed, now Tesco
(taken 28.5.2012)  
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BJR57.jpg (taken 5.8.2005)  
photograph
CEP12.jpg (taken 23.2.2016)  

Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Edward G
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
date:-   1874
New building.

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