Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Furness Railway
	other name:-	FR
	other name:-	Cumbrian Coast Line
	parish	Lindal and Marton parish, once in Lancashire
	parish	Dalton Town with Newton parish, once in Lancashire
	parish	Barrow-in-Furness borough, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		railway
	parish	Kirkby Ireleth parish, once in Lancashire
	parish	Askam and Ireleth parish, once in Lancashire
	parish	Barrow-in-Furness borough, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		railway
	parish	Kirkby Ireleth parish, once in Lancashire
	parish	Broughton West parish, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		railway
	parish	Dalton Town with Newton parish, once in Lancashire
	parish	Lindal and Marton parish, once in Lancashire
	parish	Pennington parish, once in Lancashire
	parish	Ulverston parish, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		railway
		from Dalton through Furness Abbey, Roose, Rampside to Piel Island, Lancashire; from Dalton Junction through Askham in Ireleth, Kirkby in Furness to Kirkby Slate Works, extended from Kirkby in Furness through Foxfield to Broughton in Furness, Lancashire; extended from Dalton through Lindal to Ulverston, Lancashire; plus complicatd routes in and around Barrow iin Furness, Lancashire.
	References
		Furness Railway -- Lindal and Marton and Dalton Town with Newton etc -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria / -- Copy of the railway coat of arms. -- 2008 -- courtsey of the National Railway Museum
		Furness Railway -- Lindal and Marton and Dalton Town with Newton etc -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria / -- 18.4.2006
	source:-	Philip/Wilson 1890s
	date:-	1895
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		Furness Railway
		triple line, light bold light, railway; note branch at Kirkby Ireleth
		Furness Railway
	placename:-	Furness Railway
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	old print:-
		Print, coloured lithograph, Abbot's Wood, Furness Abbey, Lancashire, engraved by J McGahey, from a photograph by Taphouse, printed by J Richardson, Barrow-in-Furness, 1870?
		In a cutting in the foreground is a train on the Furness railway.
		printed at bottom left, right, centre:-
		Drawn on Stone by J. McGahey / Taphouse Photographer / & Printed by J Richardson, Barrow in Furness / ABBOT'S WOOD, FURNESS ABBEY,- THE RESIDENCE OF JAMES RAMSDEN, ESQ.
	date:-	1870
	period:-	19th century, late
		photographs
		Furness Railway -- Lindal and Marton and Dalton Town with Newton etc -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria / -- 18.4.2006
	hearsay	The branch was from the Furness Railway near Lindal, Lindal and Marton, to Stainton, Urswick, Cumbria.
	hearsay	Operated by the Furness Railway from 1860. 9.5 miles.
	guide book:-	Barber 1873
		Guide book, The Tourist's Picturesque Guide to Furness Abbey, the Vicinity, and Lakes Coniston and Windermere, by Henry Barber, published by The Graphotyping Co, 7 Garrick Street and Simpkin, Marshall and Co, Stationers' Hall Court, London, and by J Atkinson, King Street, Ulverston, Cumberland, 5th edn about 1873.
		GRANGE
	date:-	1873
	period:-	19th century, late; 1870s
		photographs
		Furness Railway -- Lindal and Marton and Dalton Town with Newton etc -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria / -- 18.4.2006
	hearsay	The railway was promoted by the Brogden Family. A route was surveyed by McLean and Stileman, 1850. 19 1/2 miles. The railway caused enormous changes to the northern shore of Morecambe Bay and the Kent Estuary. From the openeing in 1859 up to the 1870s over 1100 acres of land were reclaimed. Above the viaduct 700 acres of new marsh appeared as a result of silting, some of which was reclaimed later. Gilpin, Leslie R: 2008: Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway: Cumbrian Railways Association:: ISBN 0 954232 7 0
	hearsay	8 mile branch line of Furness Railway. There were various preservation attempts from 1967 onwards.
		photographs
		Furness Railway -- Lindal and Marton and Dalton Town with Newton etc -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria / -- 18.4.2006
	hearsay	33 3/4 miles. An early plan went from Millom Station, across the 1 1/4 mile Duddon estuary by viaduct, to join the Furness railway south of Kirkby. New powers were acquired, 1865, for a line from Millom across the Duddon estuary to a junction with the Furness Railway at Askam, and then straight across to Lindal. This never hapenned; the FR took over in 1865. A contractor had started work on the new viaduct, materials onsite, etc by 1867.
	hearsay	A five and a quarter mile cut off connecting Grange-over-Sands to Oxenholme, part of the Furness Railway, open 1876, finally closed 1972. The 1867 Act states that part of the line must be on arches:- In order that the view from Dallam Tower Estate may be onstructed as little as possible making a bridge over the River Bela into an unecessary viaduct.
	hearsay	15 1/4 miles including branches.
	references	Gradon, W McGowan & Robinson, Peter (ed): 2004 (2nd edn): Track of the Ironmasters: Cumbrian Railways Association (Pinner, Middlesex):: ISBN 0 9540232 2 6
		photographs
		Furness Railway -- Lindal and Marton and Dalton Town with Newton etc -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria / -- 18.4.2006
	hearsay	4 1/2 miles, and a 2 1/4 mile branch to Frizington.
	old map:-	OS County Series (Lan 16 4)
		County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
		FURNESS RAILWAY / BARDSEA BRANCH
	placename:-	Bardsea Branch
		railway
	date:-	1890=1899
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
	hearsay	Served an ironworks and Glaxo chemical plant.
		photographs
		Inside cylinders; bar frames.
		Furness Railway -- Lindal and Marton and Dalton Town with Newton etc -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria / -- FR 0-4-0 locomotive No.3 'Coppernob' built by Bury, Curtis and Kennedy, Liverpool, 1846. -- courtsey of the National Railway Museum. -- 2008
		Furness Railway -- Lindal and Marton and Dalton Town with Newton etc -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria / -- FR 0-4-0 locomotive No.3 'Coppernob' built by Bury, Curtis and Kennedy, Liverpool, 1846. -- courtsey of the National Railway Museum. -- 2011
		Furness Railway -- Lindal and Marton and Dalton Town with Newton etc -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria / -- FR 0-4-0 locomotive No.3 'Coppernob' built by -- 'BURY, CURTIS & KENNEDY / Liverpool' -- 1846. -- courtsey of the National Railway Museum. -- 2011
		Furness Railway -- Lindal and Marton and Dalton Town with Newton etc -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria / -- FR 0-4-0 locomotive No.3 'Coppernob' built by Bury, Curtis and Kennedy, Liverpool, 1846. -- courtsey of the National Railway Museum. -- 2011
		Furness Railway -- Lindal and Marton and Dalton Town with Newton etc -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria / -- FR 0-4-0 locomotive No.3 'Coppernob' built by Bury, Curtis and Kennedy, Liverpool, 1846. -- courtsey of the National Railway Museum. -- 2008
		photographs
		Furness Railway -- Lindal and Marton and Dalton Town with Newton etc -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria / -- Trespassers notice. -- courtsey of the National Railway Museum. -- 2008
		Furness Railway -- Lindal and Marton and Dalton Town with Newton etc -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria / -- Trespassers notice. -- 14.9.2009
		Furness Railway -- Lindal and Marton and Dalton Town with Newton etc -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria / -- Level crossing gate notice. -- 14.5.2010
		Furness Railway -- Lindal and Marton and Dalton Town with Newton etc -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria -- Cumbria / -- Helmet badge:- -- 'F.R. / Dock / Police' -- courtsey of the National Railway Museum. -- 2008
	hearsay	Initially 14 miles of line serving mines at Lindal and at Kirkby. William Wordsworth objected to the railway. The two core routes were: from Crooklands, by Dalton in Furness, Dalton Town with Newton, to Barrow-in-Furness, and to Kirkby Slate Works, near Kirkby in Furness, Kirkby Ireleth, Cumbria. There were early extensions: from Crooklands through Lindal, to Ulverston, Cumbria; and from Kirkby to Broughton in Furness, Broughton West, Cumbria. Other extensions and complicated routes in Barrow brought the track mileage to 428 3/4 miles by 1918. The lines are so complicated that the routes noted in 'Mapping' groups are unreliable; the undated groups are the least reliable. Despite referring to several reliable looking books, which don't entirely agree with each other, I am still confused. The Maping groups include places to locate the line which may not have been 'extant' when the line was first opened; the mappings do not include all the parts of every Y-junction.
		A history of the opening of parts of the Furness Railway was issued by the General Manager, Alfred Aslet, at Barrow-in-Furness, 1912. Furness Railway DATES OF OPENING MAIN LINE 1846 Dalton to Kirkby ... 6m 69ch 1847 Roose to Barrow, Old Passenger Station ... 1m 33ch 1848 Kirkby to Broughton ... 3m 43ch 1849 Ravenglass to Whitehaven ... 16m 61ch 1850 Foxfield to Ravenglass ... 17m 45ch 1851 Lindal to Dalton ... 1m 53ch 1854 Ulverston to Lindal ... 2m 68ch 1857 Carnforth to Ulverston ... 19m 35ch 1867 Millwood Junction to Dalton Junction ... 0m 33ch 1873 Barrow, Old Station, to Ormsgill Junction ... 1m70ch 1881 St Luke's Junction to Barrow Docks ... 1m 42ch 1882 Barrow and Park Loop (Salthouse to Park) ... 5m 41ch [total] ... 79m 33ch BRANCH LINES 1846 Goldmire Junction to Piel Pier 6m 13ch 1859 Broughton to Coniston ... 8m 67ch 1863 Hawcoat Branch ... 0m 52ch 1865 Millom to Hodbarrow ... 1m 49ch 1867 Crooklands to Stainton ... 1m 56ch 1869 Levens Junction to Greenodd Junction ... 0m 29ch 1869 Ulverston to Lakeside ... 9m 38ch 1873 Salthouse Junction to Stank ... 1m 74ch 1876 Arnside to Hincaster (Kendal Branch) ... 5m 25ch 1882 Oak Lee and Goldmire Junction ... 0m 31ch 1883 Plumpton Junction to Bardsea (Priory Station) ... 2m 0ch ... 1901 Loco. Junction to Ramsden Dock (South Side) ... 1m 9ch 1906 Cavendish Bridge Junction to Pulp Works Siding ... 1m 6ch [total] ... 40m 49ch JOINT LINES 1855-1879 L. & N.W. and Furness Joint Line ... 34m 24ch 1867 (F. & M. Joint) Carnforth to Wennington ... 9m 50ch 1880 Carnforth, F. & M. Curve ... 0m 21ch [total] ... 44m 15ch [grand total] ... 164m 17ch STEAMERS 1859 Coniston Steam Yachts 1871 Windermere Steam Yachts 1901 Barrow to Fleetwood Steamers ------ 1846 Furness Abbey Hotel 1910 George Romney's Early Home (1742-1755) Barrow-in-Furness General Manager's Office, Barrow-in-Furnes. July, 1912. NB: this data has not yet been used in the dated route information recorded for the railways Marsh, John & Garbutt, John: 2002: Images of Cumbrian Railways: Sutton Publishing (Stroud, Gloucestershire):: ISBN 0 7509 2834 4
	goes through
	mapping:-	Crooklands Junction, Dalton Town with Newton Dalton Station, Dalton Town with Newton Dalton Tunnel, Dalton Town with Newton railway bridge, Dalton-in-Furness Dalton Junction, Dalton Town with Newton Mill Wood Junction, Barrow-in-Furness Furness Abbey Station, Barrow-in-Furness Furness Abbey Tunnel, Barrow-in-Furness Roose Station, Roose 23.5.1844: authorized 1846: opened
	goes through
	mapping:-	Roose Station, Roose Parrock Hall Junction, Barrow-in-Furness Rampside Station, Barrow-in-Furness Piel Pier, Barrow-in-Furness Piel Station, Roa Island 23.5.1844: authorized 1846: opened 1936: closed
	goes through
	mapping:-	Roose Station, Roose Rabbit Hill Station, Barrow-in-Furness 1846: opened 1870: closed
	goes through
	mapping:-	Dalton Junction, Dalton Town with Newton Goldmire Junction, Dalton Town with Newton Park South Junction, Dalton Town with Newton Askam Station, Askam and Ireleth Dunnerholme Gate Station, Askam and Ireleth Soutergate Crossing, Kirkby Ireleth Kirkby Station, Kirkby Ireleth 1846: opened
	goes through
	mapping:-	railway junction, Kirkby Ireleth slate depot, Kirkby IrelethKirkby Slate Quarries, Kirkby Ireleth 1846: opened 1952: closed
	goes through
	mapping:-	Kirkby Station, Kirkby Ireleth railway junction, Kirkby Ireleth level crossing, Foxfield Foxfield Station, Broughton West Foxfield Junction, Broughton West Broughton Goods Junction, Broughton West Broughton in Furness Station, Broughton West (2) 1846: authorized 1848: opened 1962: closed
	goes through
	mapping:-	Ulverston Goods Junction, Ulverston Ulverston Goods Station, Ulverston 27.7.1846: authorized 1854: opened
	goes through
	mapping:-	Crooklands Junction, Dalton Town with Newton railway bridge, Dalton Town with Newton railway bridge, Lindal and Marton Tunnel Quarry, Lindal and MartonLindal Tunnel, Lindal and Marton Lindal Station, Lindal in Furness railway bridge, Lindal in Furness railway sidings, Lindal and Marton Lindal West Signal Box, Lindal and Marton Lindal Ore Goods, Lindal and Marton Lindal East Signal Box, Lindal and Marton Ulverston Goods Junction, Ulverston Ulverston Station, Ulverston 27.7.1846: authorized 1854: opened
	goes through
	mapping:-	Roose Station, Roose Roose Gates, Barrow-in-Furness railway bridge, Roose Salthouse Junction, Barrow-in-Furness St Luke's Junction, Barrow-in-Furness railway viaduct, Barrow-in-FurnessFurness Railway Works, Barrow-in-Furness Barrow Central Station, Barrow-in-Furness Barrow-in-Furness Signal Box, Barrow-in-Furness Cocken Junction, Barrow-in-Furness Hawcoat Junction, Barrow-in-Furness Ormsgill Junction, Barrow-in-Furness Sandscale Junction, Barrow-in-Furness Oak Lea Junction, Barrow-in-Furness Park South Junction, Dalton Town with Newton
	goes through
	mapping:-	Salthouse Junction, Barrow-in-Furness Loco Junction, Barrow-in-Furness Strand Station, Barrow-in-Furness Hindpool halt, Barrow-in-Furness Ormsgill Junction, Barrow-in-Furness
	goes through
	mapping:-	Loco Junction, Barrow-in-Furness Shipyard Junction, Barrow-in-Furness Island Road Station, Barrow-in-Furness Strand Station, Barrow-in-Furness
	goes through
	mapping:-	Shipyard Junction, Barrow-in-Furness Dockyard Junction, Barrow-in-Furness Ramsden Dock Station, Barrow-in-Furness
	goes through
	mapping:-	Dockyard Junction, Barrow-in-Furness Channel Pier Sidings, Barrow-in-Furness
	goes through
	mapping:-	Parrock Hall Junction, Barrow-in-Furness Southside sidings, Barrow-in-Furness
	goes through
	mapping:-	Parrock Hall Junction, Barrow-in-Furness Roosecote Power Station, Barrow-in-Furness 1954: opened 1983: closed
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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