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Lindal Station, Lindal in Furness
Lindal Station
site name:-   Furness Railway
locality:-   Lindal in Furness
civil parish:-   Lindal and Marton (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   SD25067542 (?) 
1Km square:-   SD2575
10Km square:-   SD27
SummaryText:-   Opened 1851; closed 1951.
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 16 10) 
placename:-  Lindal Station
item:-  weighing machine; railway signal; goods shed; railway 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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"Lindal Station / Goods Shed / Coal Yard / W.M. / S.P."
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 16) 
placename:-  Lindale Station
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.
"Lindale Station"
evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Station"
dot by railway 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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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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"Lindal"
station on railway 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
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hearsay:-  
 At the end of the 19th century a locomotive disappeared into a hole 200 foot deep in the railway sidings and was never seen again. The area is subject to mining subsidence.
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