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Plumpton East Junction, Egton with Newland
Plumpton East Junction
site name:-   Lakeside branch railway
site name:-   Conishead Priory branch railway
site name:-   Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway
civil parish:-   Egton with Newland (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway junction
coordinates:-   SD30797884 (about) 
1Km square:-   SD3078
10Km square:-   SD37

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 16 4) 
placename:-  Plumptom Junction
item:-  railway signal
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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"Plumpton Junction / Signal Box / S.P."

evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Plumpton Junction
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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"Plumpton Jun."
railway junctions 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
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