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Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway (Old)
Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway
Owd Ratty
civil parish:-   Muncaster (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Eskdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway
locality type:-   narrow gauge railway
SummaryText:-   from Ravenglass, through Muncaster Mill, Irton Road, Eskdale Green, Beckfoot, to Dalegarth, Cumberland.
references:-   image
RWY015.jpg

photograph
BNT96.jpg  Train at Boot.
 
evidence:-   old print:- Bogg 1898
item:-  boat; railway station
source data:-   Print, engraving, Station, Eskdale Line, Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, Cumberland, by Owen Bowen, 1897, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.
image  click to enlarge
BGG181.jpg
Included on p.210 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg. 
item:-  JandMN : 231.81
Image © see bottom of page

photograph
BLZ10.jpg  Eskdale Express Derailed at Murthwaite
 Courtesy of the King George IV, Eskdale Green.
hearsay:-  
 The 7 mile line was planned as 2 foot 9 inch gauge, 1873, but changed to 3 foot gauge before 1875; the Owd Ratty.
person:-   railway company
 : Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway
date:-   1873
 to 1908
person:-   railway company
 : Eskdale Railway
date:-   1908
 to 1915
also see:-    Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway (New)
goes through:-   [Ravenglass Station, Muncaster (2)]
 railway bridge, Ravenglass (2)
 railway bridge, Muncaster Mill
 Muncaster Mill Station, Muncaster
[Irton Road Station, Muncaster]
 The Green Station, Eskdale
 Beckfoot Station, Beckfoot
[Eskdale Station, Eskdale]
 Boot Station, Boot
26.5.1873: authorized -  

1875 - 1876: opened 

30.11.1908: closed -  

24.5.1909: opened, goods -  

30.4.1913 -  
goes through:-   [Eskdale Station, Eskdale]
 level crossing, Eskdale (2)
 South Cumberland Mine, Eskdale
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