Hall 1833

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		WESTMORELAND RAILWAYS, 1850s
	This map is one of three from the same atlas, Westmorland, Cumberland and Lancashire, in a private collection.
	The particular interest is in the railways depicted.
	railways	The railways are added: partly by engraving new lines on the plate, a double line with cross ties, later hand coloured; but partly as manuscript corrections, hand coloured lines, but no engraving. Manuscript corrections like these are not common on county maps:-
	Lancaster and Carlisle Railway	Authorised 1844; opened 1845; labelled:- Carlisle and Lancaster Railway Double line and cross lines, tinted blue.
	Kendal and Windermere Railway	Authorised 1845; opened 1847. Double line and cross lines, tinted blue. The line does not go to the lake shore, but continues to Ambleside.
	Ambleside branch railway	Drawn as a continuation of the Kendal and Windermere branch. This railway never happened. Double line and cross lines, tinted blue.
	Low Gill and Ingleton Railway	Opened 1859; blue tint only.
	South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway	Authorised 1857; opened 1861; blue tint only.
	Eden Valley Railway	Authorised 1858; opened 1862. Blue tint only. Continues down the Mallerstang Valley.
	Settle and Carlisle Railway	Authorised 1866, opened 1866. Only the Mallerstang part is shown; blue tint only. It is drawn as a continuation of the Eden Valley Railway, and is perhaps not the Settle and Carlisle line?
		The railway additions suggest a date for the map in the late 1850s?

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