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| Oxenholme Station, Oxenholme | ||
| Oxenholme Station | ||
| Oxenholme Lake District Station | ||
| Kendal Junction | ||
| site name:- | Lancaster and Carlisle Railway | |
| site name:- | Kendal and Windermere Railway | |
| locality:- | Oxenholme | |
| civil parish:- | Kendal (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway station | |
| locality type:- | railway junction | |
| coordinates:- | SD53129017 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5390 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD59 | |
| SummaryText:- | Opened as Kendal Junction 1847; renamed Oxenholme 1873; and Oxenholme Lake District from 1987. | |
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 BYB54.jpg (taken 5.4.2013)  BST25.jpg Train from the south. (taken 14.5.2010) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 39 9) placename:- Oxenholme Station item:- railway signal; railway bridge |
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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 enlargeCSRY0170.jpg "Oxenholme Station / S.P. / Kendal Junction" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H placename:- Oxenholme Station |
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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. GAR2SD59.jpg "Oxenholme Station" dot by railway item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 placename:- Oxenholme Junction |
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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." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- LMS 1920s maps |
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| source data:- | Railway map, lithograph, 23 pages of strip maps, The Journey in
Brief, the Route London to Carlisle, published by the London
Midland and Scottish Railway, LMS, 1920s. click to enlargeLS3p26.jpg "TO EDINBURGH 150½ / OXENHOLME / FROM LONDON 249½" "The name Oxenholme is taken from the farm below the station." item:- JandMN : 95.2 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BXQ80.jpg (taken 21.11.2012)  BLK48.jpg (taken 18.11.2005)  BWL74.jpg (taken 22.5.2012)  BYB58.jpg Railings. (taken 5.4.2103) |
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 BXQ81.jpg view N. (taken 21.11.2012)  BXQ82.jpg view S. (taken 21.11.2012) |
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 BST24.jpg Train arrived from Kendal. (taken 14.5.2010)  BXQ83.jpg view of the Kendal and Windermere Railway. (taken 21.11.2012) |
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| hearsay:- |
Referred to as Strickland Junction by Arthur Ransome. |
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