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| Scotby Embankment, Scotby | ||
| Scotby Embankment | ||
| site name:- | Newcastle and Carlisle Railway | |
| locality:- | Scotby | |
| civil parish:- | Wetheral (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway embankment | |
| coordinates:- | NY44355523 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4455 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY45 | |
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| evidence:- | old drawing:- placename:- Scotby Embankment |
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| source data:- | Drawing, Scotby Embankment, About Two and a Half Miles from Carlisle, Looking East,
Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Scotby, Cumberland, by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835. click to enlargePR1005.jpg Summertime; in centre foreground two figures, one sitting on a block of masonry whilst the other stands, pause beside the railway line at the edge of a steep railway embankment. Scattered piles of masonry lie beside the tracks. Beyond lies wooded countryside with distant hills. Carmichael executed 22 pencil drawings of the construction of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway at the suggestion of the Rail Company. inscribed & initialled &dated at bottom right:- "Scotby Embankment about 2½Miles from Carlisle Looking East JWC 1835" item:- Tullie House Museum : 1968.16.6 Image © Tullie House Museum |
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