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| Stainmore Summit, Stainmore | ||
| Stainmore Summit | ||
| site name:- | South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway | |
| civil parish:- | Stainmore (formerly Westmorland) (?) | |
| county:- | Cumbria (?) | |
| locality type:- | railway summit | |
| coordinates:- | NY886123 (?) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY8812 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY81 (?) | |
| altitude:- | 1370 feet | |
| altitude:- | 418m | |
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 BPR07.jpg Summit sign:- "STAINMORE SUMMIT / HEIGHT 1370 FEET" (taken 2008) courtesy of the National Railway Museum |
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| notes:- |
British Transport Films made a documentary about snow on this line, Snowdrift at Bleath
Gill, 1955. |
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