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Hest Bank and Barrow District Railway
proposed
locality:-   Hest Bank
county:-   Lancashire
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway (proposal) 

hearsay:-  
Proposal to cross Morecambe Bay on an embankment direct from Hest Bank to just north of Rampside; 1880s. Came to noting but it was not the only scheme to 'do something' with the bay.

Gilpin, Leslie R: 2008: Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway: Cumbrian Railways Association:: ISBN 0 954232 7 0

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