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Preston Street Goods, Whitehaven
Preston Street Goods
Newtown Station
site name:-   Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway
locality:-   Whitehaven
civil parish:-   Whitehaven (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
locality type:-   goods depot
coordinates:-   NX97221766 (guess) 
1Km square:-   NX9717
10Km square:-   NX91
SummaryText:-   Opened with the railway as Newtown Station 1849; closed 1855; Preston Street Goods from 1860.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 67 2) 
item:-  crane (?); goods shed
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.
OS County Series (Cmd 67 6) 
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"Goods Station / C."

hearsay:-  
Also a junction for the line to engine sheds.

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