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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)  BNW74.jpg (taken 6.7.2007) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 8 11) placename:- Lake Side Station item:- railway milepost; railway signal |
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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 enlargeCSRY0157.jpg "Lake Side Station / S.B. / S.P. / M.P. Carnforth 25" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Prior 1874 map 1 placename:- Lake Side Station |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving or lithograph? Winander Mere, scale
about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett,
Windermere, Westmorland, 1874. click to enlargePI03M1.jpg "Lake Side Station" at the end of the line item:- private collection : 133.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) |
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| 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. 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)  BNW71.jpg Signal box at south end. (taken 6.7.2007)  BNW75.jpg (taken 6.7.2007)  BNW76.jpg (taken 6.7.2007)  BNW77.jpg Train arriving. (taken 6.7.2007)  BNW80.jpg Locomotive. (taken 6.7.2007)  BNW78.jpg Makers plate:- "ANDREW BARCLAY SONS &Co. LIMITED CALEDONIA WORKS No 1245 - 1911 KILMARNOCK. SCOTLAND" (taken 6.7.2007)  BNW79.jpg Fireman, notice the staff, or key. (taken 6.7.2007)  BNW81.jpg Fireman changing the points to run the loco round the train, notice the staff, or key. (taken 6.7.2007) |
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| 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. |
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| Paley and Austin series | ||
| person:- | architect : Austin, Hubert J |
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| person:- | architect : Paley, Henry A |
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| date:- | 1869 |
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| New building. |
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