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Carlisle Library : Map 86

Railway map, uncoloured lithograph, Plan of Proposed Railway from Drumburgh to Silloth Bay, scale about 1 mile to 1 inch, by R Asquith, printed by Hudson Scott, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1853.
The Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway, authorized 1855, opened 1857.
   Asquith 1853
map feature:- north point & up is N (NNW) & scale line & sea plain & coast line & rivers & settlements & roads & railways
inscription:- printed lower left
PLAN / OF / PROPOSED RAILWAY / FROM / DRUMBURGH TO SILLOTH BAY. / JULY 1853. / R. ASQUITH, Carlisle.
inscription:- printed lower right
Hudson Scott, Engraver and Lithographer, Carlisle.
inscription:- printed with scale line
MILES
scale line:- 4 miles = 101.6 mm
wxh, map:- 400x263mm
scale:- 1 to 63000 ? (1 to 63360 from scale line, assuming a statute mile)