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Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 8
miles to 1 inch, by Sidney Hall, published by Chapman and
Hall, 193 Piccadilly, London, about 1860s.
The map, first published 1833, is probably from the
Travelling County Atlas or the New County Atlas by Sidney
Hall, as engraved uptodate for the 1840s but with manuscript
additions, coloured railways to the 1860s. Notice that the
canal from Carlisle to Bowness is still shown, not yet
altered to a railway.
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; Caledonian Railway, open
1847; Cockermouth and Workington Railway, open 1847;
Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, open 1848; Alston
branch railway, open 1852; Port Carlisle Dock and Railway,
open 1854; part of the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont
Railway, open 1856 onwards; Carlisle and Silloth Bay
Railway, open 1857; Border Union Railway, open 1861;
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