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Caledonian Railway
CR
country:-   Scotland
civil parish:-   Kirkandrews (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Rockcliffe (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Kingmoor (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway


photograph
BRP92.jpg  Coat of arms on Carlisle Citadel Station.
(taken 29.9.2009)  

 Solway Junction Railway - from 1895

evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Caledonian Railway
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
image
GAR2NY35.jpg
"Caledonian Raily."
triple line, light bold light, railway 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old text:- Harper 1907
item:-  mail coachstage coach
source data:-   Guidebook, The Manchester and Glasgow Road, by Charles G Harper, published by Chapman and Hall Ltd, London, 1907.
HP01p146.txt
Page 146:-  "..."
"... the irony of fate long ago overtook the canal, in its conversion into a railway."
"It was in December, 1846, that the first railway ran into Carlisle from the south. It was the Lancaster and Carlisle"
HP01p147.txt
Page 147:-  "Railway, long since absorbed into the London and North-Western. In September, 1847, the Caledonian Railway, from Carlisle to Moffat, carried on the new methods another stage, and in the following February it was further extended to Glasgow and Edinburgh. It was necessarily the death-blow of the coaches along the main route. ..."

evidence:-   old map:- LMS 1939 B
source data:-   image  click to enlarge
LMS6Cm.jpg
"MAP OF LMS RAILWAY"
item:-  JandMN : 1016.5
Image © see bottom of page


Joy, David: 1983 &1990: Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain; the Lake Counties (vol.14): David and Charles (Newton Abbot, Devon):: ISBN 0 946537 56 9
Awdry, Christopher: 1990: Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies: Guild Publishing (London)

person:-   railway company
 : Caledonian RailwayCR
date:-   1845
 to 1923

person:-   railway company
 : London, Midland and Scottish RailwayLMS
date:-   1923
 to 1948

person:-   railway company
 : British RailwaysBR
date:-   1948

goes through:-    Dumfries Line Junction, Gretna
 railway bridge, Kirkandrews (2)
 railway bridge, Kirkandrews (3)
 Millhill Station, Millhill
 Millhill Bridge, Millhill
 Gretna Junction, Kirkandrews
 railway viaduct, Rockcliffe
 railway footbridge, Rockcliffe
 Floriston Station, Rockcliffe
 Floriston Level Crossing, Rockcliffe
 railway milepost, Rockcliffe
 railway bridge, Rockcliffe (4)
 railway bridge, Rockcliffe (3)
 railway bridge, Rockcliffe
 Rockcliffe Station, Rockcliffe
 Kingmoor Motive Power Depot, Etterby
 railway bridge, Etterby
 railway bridge, Etterby (2)
 Port Carlisle Branch Junction, Carlisle
 railway bridge, Carlisle (3)
 Carlisle Citadel Station, Carlisle
31.7.1845: authorized -  

1849 - 1850: opened 

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