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Newbiggin Station, Ravenstonedale
Newbiggin Station
Newbiggin-on-Lune Station
Ravenstonedale Station
Brantwood
site name:-   South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway
locality:-   Newbiggin-on-Lune
civil parish:-   Ravenstonedale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station (ex) 
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY70040535
1Km square:-   NY7005
10Km square:-   NY70
SummaryText:-   Opened as Newbiggin Station, with the railway, 1861; renamed Ravenstonedale Station 1877; closed 1952.
references:-   OS County Series


photograph
BSH62.jpg (taken 16.3.2010)  
photograph
BSS59.jpg (taken 11.5.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 29 8) 
placename:-  Newbiggin Station
item:-  railway signalrailway milepostrailway bridge
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.
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CSRY0202.jpg
"Newbiggin Station / Coal Depot / S.P. / M.S. Darlington 44"


photograph
BSH63.jpg (taken 16.3.2010)  
photograph
BPQ98.jpg  Station sign.
(taken 2008)  courtesy of the National Railway Museum.

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