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placename:- Windermere Lakeside Station
other name:- Lakeside Station
site name:- Lakeside branch railway
site name:- Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway
site name:- Windermere lake
locality:- Lakeside
parish Colton parish, once in Lancashire
county:- Cumbria
railway station; station
coordinates:- SD378874
10Km square:- SD38
Opened 1869; closed 1965; reopened after 1973.

1Km square SD3787

photograph

Windermere Lakeside Station -- Lakeside branch railway -- Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway -- Windermere lake -- Lakeside -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- 6.7.2007
photograph

Windermere Lakeside Station -- Lakeside branch railway -- Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway -- Windermere lake -- Lakeside -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- 6.7.2007

old map:- OS County Series (Lan 8 11)

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.
Lake Side Station / S.B. / S.P. / M.P. Carnforth 25

placename:- Lake Side Station
railway station; signal box
date:- 1890=1899
period:- 19th century, late; 1890s

photographs
tiny photograph, 
button to large Windermere Lakeside Station -- Lakeside branch railway -- Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway -- Windermere lake -- Lakeside -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- View S. -- 6.7.2007
tiny photograph, 
button to large Windermere Lakeside Station -- Lakeside branch railway -- Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway -- Windermere lake -- Lakeside -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- Signal box at south end. -- 6.7.2007
tiny photograph, 
button to large Windermere Lakeside Station -- Lakeside branch railway -- Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway -- Windermere lake -- Lakeside -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- 6.7.2007
tiny photograph, 
button to large Windermere Lakeside Station -- Lakeside branch railway -- Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway -- Windermere lake -- Lakeside -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- 6.7.2007
tiny photograph, 
button to large Windermere Lakeside Station -- Lakeside branch railway -- Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway -- Windermere lake -- Lakeside -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- Train arriving. -- 6.7.2007
tiny photograph, 
button to large Windermere Lakeside Station -- Lakeside branch railway -- Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway -- Windermere lake -- Lakeside -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- Locomotive. -- 6.7.2007
tiny photograph, 
button to large Windermere Lakeside Station -- Lakeside branch railway -- Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway -- Windermere lake -- Lakeside -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- Makers plate:- -- 'ANDREW BARCLAY SONS & Co. LIMITED CALEDONIA WORKS No 1245 - 1911 KILMARNOCK. SCOTLAND' -- 6.7.2007
tiny photograph, 
button to large Windermere Lakeside Station -- Lakeside branch railway -- Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway -- Windermere lake -- Lakeside -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- Fireman, notice the staff, or key. -- 6.7.2007
tiny photograph, 
button to large Windermere Lakeside Station -- Lakeside branch railway -- Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway -- Windermere lake -- Lakeside -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- Fireman changing the points to run the loco round the train, notice the staff, or key. -- 6.7.2007

hearsay The station dates from the arrival of the railway here in 1869. The terminal building (now gone) had a tower which was an informal lighthouse for boats on the lake.

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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