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placename:- Whitbeck Crossing
locality:- Whitbeck
site name:- Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway
parish Whicham parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
level crossing; railway station
coordinates:- SD11598388
10Km square:- SD18
Station here from 1850 to 1857.

1Km square SD1183

Automatic level crossing without gates.
photograph

Whitbeck Crossing -- Whitbeck -- Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway -- Whicham -- Cumbria / -- 13.10.2006
photograph

Whitbeck Crossing -- Whitbeck -- Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway -- Whicham -- Cumbria / -- View S. -- 13.10.2006

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 87 8)

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.
Shows a railway bridge and building to the NW.
railway bridge
date:- 1890=1899
period:- 19th century, late; 1890s

photographs
tiny photograph, 
button to large Whitbeck Crossing -- Whitbeck -- Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway -- Whicham -- Cumbria / -- View N. -- 13.10.2006

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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