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Moorside Railway Station (Cumbria)
Moorside is a proposed railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line which would serve Moorside nuclear power station. A second railway station to be sited at Mirehouse Mirehouse is a 17th-century house to the north of Keswick, Cumbria, Keswick in Cumbria, at the foot of Dodd (Lake District), Dodd, near Bassenthwaite Lake and St Bega's Church, on the A591 road. Although still a family home it and its grounds a ... further north on the line, has also been proposed to serve the accommodation for the workers of the construction phase of the nuclear power station. References Proposed railway stations in England {{NorthWestEngland-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumbrian Coast Line
The Cumbrian Coast line is a rail route in North West England, running from Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness via Workington and Whitehaven. The line forms part of Network Rail route NW 4033, which continues (as the Furness line) via Ulverston and Grange-over-Sands to Carnforth, where it connects with the West Coast Main Line. History George Stephenson favoured, and carried out preliminary surveys for, a scheme to link England and Scotland by a railway running along the coast between Lancaster and Carlisle, but this 'Grand Caledonian Junction Railway' was never built, the direct route over Shap being preferred. Consequently, the line along the Cumbrian coast is the result of piecemeal railway building (largely to serve local needs) by a number of different companies: Maryport and Carlisle Railway Carlisle to Maryport Promoted to link with Newcastle and Carlisle Railway to give "one complete and continuous line of communication from the German Ocean to the Irish Sea" and to op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirehouse, Copeland
Mirehouse is an area and ward in the English county of Cumbria and within the boundaries of the historic county of Cumberland. Mirehouse is 1.5 miles south of the town of Whitehaven near the A595 road. Mirehouse Estate, locally colloquially known as ‘The Valley’. The West was referred to 09 side and the East as 07 side, taken from the numbers of the bus routes that served them. The ward was 4,498 at the 2011 census. Churches St Andrew is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is Mirehouse. St Benedicts is an active Roman Catholic Church Founded in 1961, right after the opening of the new church building at St Mary’s, Kells. School Valley Primary School and Nursery is a community school for children from 3–11 years. It opened as a Primary School A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), element ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
