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Railway map, colour printed, Railway and Station Map of Cumberland, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by G F Cruchley, 81 Fleet Street, London, 1850s-60s?
This is a reduced version of the map with a simpler title.
The railways shown are - Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, open 1836; Maryport and Carlisle Railway, open 1840-45; Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, open 1846; Whitehaven Junction Railway, open 1846-47; Furness Railway, open 1846-54; Caledonian Railway, open 1847; Cockermouth and Workington Railway, open 1847; Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, open 1850; Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway, open 1849-55; Alston branch railway, open 1852; Port Carlisle Dock and Railway, open 1854; part of the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway, open 1856-57; Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway, open 1857; Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway, open 1857; start of the Coniston Railway, open 1859-60; Border Union Railway, open 1861; Eden Valley Railway, open 1862; Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway, under construction, open 1864-65; and Egremont and Sellafield branch railway, open 1869.
   Cruchley 1856
map feature:- up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (rectangular projection?) & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & parks & county & settlements & roads & railways
inscription:- printed lower right
RAILWAY & STATION / MAP OF / CUMBERLAND / WITH / THE NAMES OF THE STATIONS
inscription:- printed bottom
LONDON. PUBLISHED BY G.F. CRUCHLEY, MAP-SELLER & GLOBE MAKER 81 FLEET STREET.
inscription:- printed above the scale line
British Statute Miles 69 1/2 to a Degree
scale line:- 10 miles = 38.0 mm
scale:- 1 to 420000 ? (1 to 423512 from scale line)
wxh, sheet:- 22.5x28cm
wxh, map:- 212x265mm