Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| Haweswater Railway | ||
| locality:- | Hawes Water | |
| civil parish:- | Shap Rural (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway | |
| locality type:- | narrow gauge railway | |
| 10Km square:- | NY51 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5010 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY51 | |
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| hearsay:- |
An 8 mile line was planned to lead from the LNWR main line, Lancaster to Carlisle
Railway, just north of the granite quarry, Shap, to the site of the Hawes Water dam,
when it was being built. There was also to be a branch to a dam site in Swindale.
Neither ofthese were ever built. |
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| Bowtell, Harold D: 1977: Reservoir Railways of Manchester and The Peak: Oakwood Press
(Blandform, Dorset):: ISBN 0 85361 207 2 |
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