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Snowhuts, Dent
Snowhuts
site name:-   Settle and Carlisle Railway
locality:-   Dent Station
civil parish:-   Dent (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD76478736
1Km square:-   SD7687
10Km square:-   SD78

hearsay:-  
The railway is exposed to winter snow. About 1947 a small locomotive depot was made at Dent to hold the snowploughs and locomotives, and there was accomodation with bunks and a mess for ten men.

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