Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Port Carlisle Dock and Railway
	parish	Carlisle city, once in Cumberland
	parish	Beaumont parish, once in Cumberland
	parish	Burgh by Sands parish, once in Cumberland
	parish	Bowness parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		railway
		from Canal Junction N, Carlisle, through Kirkandrews, Burgh, Drumburgh, Glasson, to Port Carlisle on the Solway Firth, Cumberland.
	References
		Port Carlisle Dock and Railway -- Carlisle and Beaumont etc -- Cumbria / -- Dandy car no.1 built by North British Railway, St Margaret's Works, Edinburgh, 1863; used to 1913. -- 2008 -- courtsey of the National Railway Museum.
	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.
		triple line, light bold light, railway
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	old map:-	Railway Clearing House 1900s-10s
		NORTH BRITISH
	placename:-	North British Railway
	date:-	1914
	period:-	1910s
	hearsay	The Carlisle Canal Co was re-incorporated to convert the canal to 11 miles of railway, opened 1854, with a 12 3/4 mile extension to Siloth Bay, opened 1856. It was leased to the NBR 1862, and taken over 1880. Passenger services were still horse drawn in 1914.
	goes through
	mapping:-	Canal Junction N, Carlisle Caldcoats Bridge, Carlisle Canal Station, Carlisle railway bridge, Beaumont Kirkandrews Station, Beaumont Burgh Station, Burgh by Sands railway bridge, Burgh by Sands (2) railway bridge, Burgh by Sands railway bridge, Boustead Hill railway bridge, Easton Drumburgh Junction, Bowness railway bridge, Glasson Glasson Station, Bowness Port Carlisle Station, Port Carlisle 4.8.1853: authorized 1854: opened 1932: closed, passengers 7.9.1964: closed, goods
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013

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