Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Kendal and Windermere Railway
	other name:-	Pointless Railway
	parish	Kendal parish, once in Westmorland
	parish	Strickland Ketel parish, once in Westmorland
	parish	Nether Staveley parish, once in Westmorland
	parish	Hugill parish, once in Westmorland
	parish	Windermere parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		railway
		from Oxenholme on the Lancaster and Carilsle Railway, through Kendal, Burneside, Staveley, to Windermere, Westmorland.
	References
		Kendal and Windermere Railway -- Kendal and Strickland Ketel etc -- Cumbria / -- Train leaving Oxenholme Station. -- 18.11.2005
		Kendal and Windermere Railway -- Kendal and Strickland Ketel etc -- Cumbria / -- Railway N from Plantation Bridge. -- 15.4.2006
	old advertisement:-	Jenkinson 1875 B
		Advertisement for the London and North Western Railway, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1884.
		Adverts p.14 at the back of Jenkinson's Smaller Practical Guide to Carlisle, Gilsland, Roman Wall and Neighbourhood.
	placename:-	London and North Western Railway
	date:-	1884
	period:-	19th century, late; 1880s
	source:-	Martineau 1855
		Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-71.
		Page 3:-
		The traveller arrives [at Windermere], we must suppose, by the railway from Kendal, having been dropped at the Oxenholme Junction by the London train from the south, or the Edinburgh and Carlisle train from the north.
		...
		Page 5:-
		... When the traveller foot or horseback sees certain reaches of Lake Windermere from Orrest Head, lying deep down below him, he knows he is coming near the end of the railway, which cannot yet plunge and climb as our old mail roads must do, ... The old coach road over Orrest Head and the railway meet at the new village of Windermere, ...
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	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.
		Kendal & Windermere Railway
		triple line, light bold light, railway
	placename:-	Kendal and Windermere Railway
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	poem:-
		ON THE PROJECTED KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY.
		William Wordsworth, 12 October 1844:-
	person:-	poet : Wordsworth, William
	date:-	1844
	period:-	19th century, early; 1840s
	poem:-
		Monckton Miles, about 1844
	person:-	poet : Miles, Monckton
	date:-	1844
	period:-	19th century, early; 1840s
		photographs
		Kendal and Windermere Railway -- Kendal and Strickland Ketel etc -- Cumbria / -- 18.4.2006
		Kendal and Windermere Railway -- Kendal and Strickland Ketel etc -- Cumbria / -- 18.4.2006
	hearsay	On the initiative of Cornelius Nicholson, owner of the paper mill in Burneside, and others the railway was proposed August 1844, to run from Oxenholme to Low Wood between Bowness and Ambleside. An Opposition Committe set up under Professor Wilson, October 1844. And William Wordsworth reacted. Opposition was dissipated when the line was cut back to end at Birthwaite, now Windermere. Authorised by Act of Parliament, Victoria 8 and 9 cap 32: for making a railway from the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway to Birthwaite in the parish of Windermere, to be called:- The Kendal and Windermere Railway From 1973 the 10 1/4 mile line has been referred to as a pointless railway; it has no points, is just one long siding.
		Smith, Dick: 2002: Kendal and Windermere Railway: Cumbrian Railways Association:: ISBN 0 9549232 0 X Mellentiin, Julian: 1980: Kendal and Windermere Railway: Dalesman Books (Clapham, North Yorkshire):: ISBN 0 85206 610 4
	goes through
	mapping:-	Oxenholme Station, Kendal Kendal Station, Kendal 30.6.1845: authorized 22.9.1846: opened 1972: closed, goods
	goes through
	mapping:-	Kendal Station, Kendal Iron Bridge, Kendal Kendal goods branch, Kendal railway bridge, Kendal level crossing, Burneside railway milepost, BurnesideBurneside Station, Burneside Burneside Junction, Burneside level crossing, Burneside (2) Plantation Bridge, Nether Staveley level crossing, Staveley railway bridge, Nether Staveley Staveley Station, Nether Staveley railway bridge, Nether Staveley (2) railway bridge, Hugill Windermere Station, Windermere 30.6.1845: authorized 20.4.1847: opened 4.1969: closed, goods
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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