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Oxenholme Station, Oxenholme
Oxenholme Station
Oxenholme Lake District Station
Kendal Junction
site name:-   Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
site name:-   Kendal and Windermere Railway
locality:-   Oxenholme
civil parish:-   Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
locality type:-   railway junction
coordinates:-   SD53129017
1Km square:-   SD5390
10Km square:-   SD59
SummaryText:-   Opened as Kendal Junction 1847; renamed Oxenholme 1873; and Oxenholme Lake District from 1987.


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BYB54.jpg (taken 5.4.2013)  
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BST25.jpg  Train from the south.
(taken 14.5.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 39 9) 
placename:-  Oxenholme Station
item:-  railway signalrailway 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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CSRY0170.jpg
"Oxenholme Station / S.P. / Kendal Junction"

evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Oxenholme Station
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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GAR2SD59.jpg
"Oxenholme Station"
dot by railway 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
placename:-  Oxenholme Junction
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
image MNU1P003, button  goto source
Page 3:-  "The traveller arrives [at Windermere], we must suppose, by the railway from Kendal, having been dropped at the Oxenholme Junction by the London train from the south, or the Edinburgh and Carlisle train from the north."

evidence:-   old map:- LMS 1920s maps
source data:-   Railway map, lithograph, 23 pages of strip maps, The Journey in Brief, the Route London to Carlisle, published by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, LMS, 1920s.
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LS3p26.jpg
"TO EDINBURGH 150½ / OXENHOLME / FROM LONDON 249½"
"The name Oxenholme is taken from the farm below the station."
item:-  JandMN : 95.2
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 Post Office maps


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BXQ80.jpg (taken 21.11.2012)  
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BLK48.jpg (taken 18.11.2005)  
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BWL74.jpg (taken 22.5.2012)  
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BYB58.jpg  Railings.
(taken 5.4.2103)  


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BXQ81.jpg  view N.
(taken 21.11.2012)  
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BXQ82.jpg  view S.
(taken 21.11.2012)  


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BST24.jpg  Train arrived from Kendal.
(taken 14.5.2010)  
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BXQ83.jpg  view of the Kendal and Windermere Railway.
(taken 21.11.2012)  

hearsay:-  
Referred to as Strickland Junction by Arthur Ransome.

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