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Kirksanton Crossing, Kirksanton
Kirksanton Crossing
site name:-   Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway
locality:-   Kirksanton
civil parish:-   Millom Without (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   level crossing
locality type:-   railway station (once) 
coordinates:-   SD14248069
1Km square:-   SD1480
10Km square:-   SD18
SummaryText:-   Station here from 1850 to 1857.


photograph
BMS63.jpg (taken 30.9.2006)  
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BMS66.jpg  Ground frame.
(taken 30.9.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 88 13) 
item:-  railway milepost
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.
image  click to enlarge
CSRY0110.jpg
"M.P."
shows a railway bridge not a level crossing 


photograph
BMS65.jpg  View N.
(taken 30.9.2006)  
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BMS64.jpg  View S.
(taken 30.9.2006)  

MN photo:-  
Sequence of views from the accomodation crossing to the N.

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BXX73.jpg (taken 4.3.2013)  
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BXX74.jpg (taken 4.3.2013)  
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BXX75.jpg (taken 4.3.2013)  
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BXX76.jpg (taken 4.3.2013)  
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BXX77.jpg (taken 4.3.2013)  

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