Carlisle, in North West England, formed the focus for a number of railway routes because of the geography of the area. At first each railway company had...
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& Carlisle Railway (M&CR) was an English railway company formed in 1836 which built and operated a small but eventually highly profitable railway to...
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The Settle–Carlisle line (also known as the Settle and Carlisle (S&C)) is a 73-mile-long (117 km) main railway line in northern England. The route, which...
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which covers an area similar to the historic county of Cumberland. Carlisle's early history is marked by the establishment of a human settlement to serve castles...
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Carlisle railway station, or Carlisle Citadel, is a Grade II* listed railway station serving the cathedral city of Carlisle, Cumbria, England. It is on...
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The Newcastle & Carlisle Railway (N&CR) (formally, the Newcastle upon Tyne and Carlisle Railway) was an English railway company formed in 1825 that built...
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Lancaster and Carlisle Railway was a main line railway opened between those cities in 1846. With its Scottish counterpart, the Caledonian Railway, the Company...
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There were two interlinked railways on the south shore of the Solway Firth. The Port Carlisle Dock and Railway Company was opened in 1854, following the...
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Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. Many of its principal routes are still used, and the original main line between Carlisle and Glasgow is in use...
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Carlisle railway station is a temporarily-closed suburban railway station on the Transperth network in Western Australia. It is in the Perth suburbs of...
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Tyne Valley line (redirect from Newcastle to Carlisle line)
two viaducts on the route are listed structures. The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway was formed in 1829, and was opened in stages between 1834 and 1838...
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Cumbria to gain Walkers are Welcome status. Brampton railway station, on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, which is about a mile outside the town, opened...
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Ribblehead Viaduct (category Railway viaducts in North Yorkshire)
Settle–Carlisle railway across Batty Moss in the Ribble Valley at Ribblehead, in North Yorkshire, England. The viaduct, built by the Midland Railway, is...
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continued via the Port Carlisle Railway, but diminished as the Solway silted up. The Carlisle canal was built to allow sea access for Carlisle to Ireland, Scotland...
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Waverley Route (redirect from Waverley Railway)
railway line that ran south from Edinburgh, through Midlothian and the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle. The line was built by the North British Railway;...
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Cumbrian Coast line (redirect from Whitehaven Junction Railway)
railway building (largely to serve local needs) by a number of different companies: Carlisle to Maryport Promoted to link with Newcastle and Carlisle...
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Valley Railway, in the 1840s, several schemes had been proposed which would have run to the Eden Valley; one was the York & Carlisle Junction Railway, backed...
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91861 Carlisle London Road railway station was the first to open in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. It was built as a terminus of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway...
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Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway to Low Gill on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, to carry Yorkshire-to-Scotland rail traffic. There would be a branch...
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Nonetheless, the company successfully reached Carlisle, where it later made a partnership with the Midland Railway. It also linked from Edinburgh to Perth and...
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a railway station in Cumbria, England (historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire), on the Settle and Carlisle Line, which runs between Carlisle and...
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in August 1850, as part of the then Newcastle & Carlisle Railway and York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway. Now a Grade I listed building, it is located in...
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partnership with the Midland Railway, through services also ran to England, using the Settle and Carlisle Railway from Carlisle to Leeds, Sheffield, Derby...
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Barrow Central) is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line and Furness Line, 85+1⁄2 miles (138 km) south-west of Carlisle and 34+3⁄4 miles (56 km)...
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shareholder "Maryport and Carlisle Railway". Carlisle Patriot. 23 February 1861. p. 5. Joy, David (1983). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain:...
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Carlisle Canal railway station was opened in 1854 as the Carlisle terminus of the Port Carlisle Railway Company's line from Port Carlisle in Cumbria,...
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Main Line and the Settle–Carlisle line, and some of its railway hotels still bear the name Midland Hotel. The Midland Railway originated from 1832 in Leicestershire...
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Ribblehead is a railway station on the Settle and Carlisle Line, which runs between Carlisle and Leeds via Settle. The station, situated 52 miles 17 chains...
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extended to Garsdale railway station on the Settle-Carlisle line. Since 2003, the remaining line has been run as a heritage railway. The line runs 22 miles...
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short sections of earlier wooden railways. When the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway was opened in 1836, the Brampton Railway was diverted to make a junction...
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