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| Penrith Station, Penrith | ||
| Penrith Station | ||
| site name:- | Lancaster and Carlisle Railway | |
| locality:- | Penrith | |
| civil parish:- | Penrith (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway station | |
| coordinates:- | NY51142990 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5129 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY52 | |
| SummaryText:- | Opened with the railway line, 1846. | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 58 4) item:- goods shed; engine shed; telegraph office; mail bag receiver; crane |
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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 enlargeCSRY0183.jpg "Railway Station / Telegraph Office / Crane / Mile Bag Receiver / ... / Railway Inn / ..." with goods shed, engine shed, cattle pens, turntable, etc |
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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 enlargeLS3p28.jpg "TO EDINBURGH 118¾ / PENRITH / FROM LONDON 281¼" "Penrith is the junction for Keswick and Whitehaven." item:- JandMN : 95.2 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Penrith Station |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "PENRITH STATION / / ULLSWATER ROAD / PENRITH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 72956 / NY5115629902" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Circa 1846. By Sir W Tite for the Lancaster and Carlisle Railwmy. Stone, single storey. Middle part with Tudor entrance and two 2-light windows with stone mullions and small panes. A gabled wing at either side of unequal size, with stone mullioned and transomed windows. Two platforms with iron segmental arched girders with round eye ornament in the spandrels." |
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 CDD73.jpg Train. (taken 29.5.2015)  BMC61.jpg (taken 12.5.2006)  BMC62.jpg (taken 12.5.2006)  CDD74.jpg Northbound platform. (taken 29.5.2015)  CDD75.jpg Northbound platform. (taken 29.5.2015)  CDD78.jpg Herbs for fun, by the Cubs. (taken 29.5.2015) |
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 CDD76.jpg View N. (taken 29.5.2015)  CDD77.jpg View S. (taken 29.5.2015) |
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| hearsay:- |
Designed by Sir William Tite, built 1846. |
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| hearsay:- |
Sworn evidence from a coachman |
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| "The information of Thomas Brownrigg Coachman to the Revd. Henry Askew Rector of Greystoke
taken before Andrew Fleming Hudleston Esq. one of her Mys. Justices of the Peace iin
and for the sd. County this 5th. Octr. 1850" |
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| "On Monday the 30th. Septr. I was driving my Master's Carriage with three [horses]
from Patterdale to Penrith - on coming near the Penrith Railway Station between 12
and 1 o'clock in the day, as I was on the point of making the turn at the end of the
screen wall an engine drawing a goods train came up from the south & entered the sidings
where it moved back & forward at intervals letting off the steam which was blown down
on the centre of the Turnpike Road adjoining the station. My horses became alarmed
and unmanageable. The off-side horse reared & got his fore legs over the Pole & the
leader turning suddenly around broke off the end of the pole. Seeing that I was useless
on the Box, I applied the lever drag & jumped down to get to the horses' heads for
the safety of the Ladies inside, in which I was assisted by the manservant. The horses
continued kicking and plunging for at least ten minutes during which I received a
severe blow in the chest from the end of the broken pole & it was with the greatest
difficulty we prevented the horses from running off with the carriage. During the
whole of this time the engine continued moving at intervals & letting off the steam
which terrified the horses & made it right impossible for myself & the manservant
to hold them, even after they was detached from the Carriage. I shouted loudly for
assistance to release the Ladies from the Carriage, & I am positive the people on
the Engine must have heard me & seen there was an accident on the Road but the steam
was nevertheless let off at intervals in the most dangerous way, coming quite down
on the middle of the road. I was obliged to leave the carriage to be taken away by
the coachmakers. We got no assistance from any one belonging to the Railway, but some
man belonging to Penrith who was getting coals in the station yard came to help us
after my mistress had gone there to ask aid. It was at least five minutes before the
Ladies were released from the carriage. My horses are perfectly quiet and tractable
&I have never before had any accidents with them." |
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| "Tho Brownrigg" |
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| Carlisle RO : D HUD 4/35 |
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