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Carlisle Library : Map 98
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Railway map, colour lithograph, Midland Railway, The Lake District, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, published by the Midland Railway, 1870s?
The railways shown are - Newcastle and Carlisle Railway; Maryport and Carlisle Railway; Lancaster and Carlisle Railway; Kendal and Windermere Railway; Whitehaven Junction Railway; Furness Railway; Cockermouth and Workington Railway; Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway; Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway; Port Carlisle Dock and Railway; Alston branch railway; Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway; Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway; Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway; Coniston Railway; Border Union Railway; Low Gill and Ingleton branch railway; South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway; Eden Valley Railway; Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway; Egremont and Sellafield branch railway; Lakeside branch railway; Solway Junction Railway; and Settle and Carlisle Railway.
   Midland Railway 1870s
map feature:- table of symbols & north point & up is N (NNW) & scale line & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & parks & settlements & roads & railways (MR in red)
inscription:- printed upper left
MIDLAND RAILWAY / THE LAKE DISTTRICT.
inscription:- printed with scale line
SCALE - 8 MILES TO AN INCH
scale line:- 20 miles = 62.5 mm
wxh, sheet:- 17.5x28cm
wxh, map:- 152x262mm
scale:- 1 to 510000 ? (1 to 514990 from scale line)