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Windermere Lakeside Station, Lakeside
Windermere Lakeside Station
Lakeside Station
site name:-   Lakeside branch railway
site name:-   Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway
site name:-   Windermere lake
locality:-   Lakeside
civil parish:-   Colton (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   SD37888737
1Km square:-   SD3787
10Km square:-   SD38
SummaryText:-   Opened 1869; closed 1965; reopened after 1973.


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BNW73.jpg (taken 6.7.2007)  
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BNW74.jpg (taken 6.7.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 8 11) 
placename:-  Lake Side Station
item:-  railway milepostrailway signal
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.
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CSRY0157.jpg
"Lake Side Station / S.B. / S.P. / M.P. Carnforth 25"

evidence:-   old map:- Prior 1874 map 1
placename:-  Lake Side Station
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving or lithograph? Winander Mere, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1874.
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PI03M1.jpg
"Lake Side Station"
at the end of the line 
item:-  private collection : 133.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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PST2SD38.jpg
"Lake Side"
station on railway 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
Image © see bottom of page


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BNW72.jpg  View S.
(taken 6.7.2007)  
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BNW71.jpg  Signal box at south end.
(taken 6.7.2007)  
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BNW75.jpg (taken 6.7.2007)  
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BNW76.jpg (taken 6.7.2007)  
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BNW77.jpg  Train arriving.
(taken 6.7.2007)  
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BNW80.jpg  Locomotive.
(taken 6.7.2007)  
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BNW78.jpg  Makers plate:-
"ANDREW BARCLAY SONS &Co. LIMITED CALEDONIA WORKS No 1245 - 1911 KILMARNOCK. SCOTLAND" (taken 6.7.2007)  
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BNW79.jpg  Fireman, notice the staff, or key.
(taken 6.7.2007)  
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BNW81.jpg  Fireman changing the points to run the loco round the train, notice the staff, or key.
(taken 6.7.2007)  

hearsay:-  
The station dates from the arrival of the railway here in 1869. The terminal building (now gone) had a tower which was an informal lighthouse for boats on the lake.

Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Henry A
date:-   1869
New building.

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