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Coniston Lake Station, Coniston
Coniston Lake Station
Coniston Station
site name:-   Coniston Railway
locality:-   Coniston
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   SD30019750
1Km square:-   SD3097
10Km square:-   SD39
SummaryText:-   Opened as Coniston Lake Station 1859; renamed Consiton Station 1914; closed 1958.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 4 4) 
item:-  goods shedweighing machineturntablecranerailway 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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"Station / Goods Shed / W.M. / Crane"

evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
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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"CONISTON"
dots, station on railway 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
Image © see bottom of page

Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Edward G
date:-   1862
New building.

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