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Coniston Railway, the Glossary

The Coniston Railway was a railway in Cumbria, England, linking Coniston and Broughton-in-Furness, which ran for over 100 years between the middle of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century.^[1]

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Closed railway lines in North West England
Rail transport in Cumbria
Railway lines closed in 1962
Railway lines opened in 1859

Ambleside

Ambleside is a town and former civil parish (now in the parish of Lakes) in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.

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Autotrain

The Autotrain was a type of passenger train used in the early 20th century, where the steam locomotive could be remotely controlled from the rear of the train.

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Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow-in-Furness is a port town and civil parish (as just "Barrow") in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.

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Blackpool Central railway station

Blackpool Central was the largest railway station in the town of Blackpool in the county of Lancashire, England.

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Board of Trade

The Board of Trade is a British government body concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for Business and Trade.

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Brantwood

Brantwood is a historic house museum in Cumbria, England, overlooking Coniston Water.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Broughton-in-Furness

Broughton in Furness is a market town in the civil parish of Broughton West in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.

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Bury, Curtis and Kennedy

Bury, Curtis and Kennedy was a steam locomotive manufacturer in Liverpool, England.

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Catrine

Catrine is a village in the heart of East Ayrshire in Scotland, which was formerly a centre of cotton manufacture.

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Clapham, North Yorkshire

Clapham is a village in the civil parish of Clapham cum Newby in the former Craven District of North Yorkshire, England.

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Coniston copper mines

Coniston Coppermine Youth Hostel in 2016 The Coniston copper mines were a copper mining operation in Lancashire, England.

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Coniston Hall

Coniston Hall is a former house on the west bank of Coniston Water in the English Lake District.

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Coniston railway station (England)

Coniston railway station was the northern terminus of the Coniston branch line in the village of Coniston, Lancashire, England (now in Cumbria). Coniston Railway and Coniston railway station (England) are 1859 establishments in England.

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Coniston Water

Coniston Water is a lake in the Lake District in North West England.

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Coniston, Cumbria

Coniston is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.

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Cumberland

Cumberland is an area of Northern England which was historically a county and is now fully part of Cumbria.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the power source is a diesel engine.

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Edward Graham Paley

Edward Graham Paley, usually known as E. G. Paley (3 September 1823 – 23 January 1895), was an English architect who practised in Lancaster, Lancashire, in the second half of the 19th century.

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Financial capital

Financial capital (also simply known as capital or equity in finance, accounting and economics) is any economic resource measured in terms of money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or to provide their services to the sector of the economy upon which their operation is based (e.g.

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Fleetwood

Fleetwood is a coastal town in the Borough of Wyre in Lancashire, England, at the northwest corner of the Fylde.

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Foxfield railway station

Foxfield is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and.

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Francis Webb (engineer)

Francis William Webb (21 May 1836 – 4 June 1906) was an English railway engineer, responsible for the design and manufacture of locomotives for the London and North Western Railway (LNWR).

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Furness Railway

The Furness Railway (Furness) was a railway company operating in the Furness area of Lancashire in North West England.

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Furness Railway No. 3

The Furness Railway No.3, nicknamed "Old Coppernob", is a preserved English steam locomotive.

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Henry Fowler (engineer)

Sir Henry Fowler, (29 July 1870 – 16 October 1938) was an English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the Midland Railway and subsequently the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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His Majesty's Railway Inspectorate

Established in 1840, His Majesty's Railway Inspectorate (HMRI) is the organisation responsible for overseeing safety on Britain's railways and tramways.

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Horsebus

A horse-bus or horse-drawn omnibus was a large, enclosed, and sprung horse-drawn vehicle used for passenger transport before the introduction of motor vehicles.

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Houseboat

A houseboat is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily for regular dwelling.

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Invitation to tender

An invitation to tender (ITT, also known as a call for bids or a request for tenders) is a formal, structured procedure for generating competing offers from different potential suppliers or contractors looking to obtain an award of business activity in works, supply, or service contracts, often from companies who have been previously assessed for suitability by means of a supplier questionnaire (SQ) or pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ).

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James Ramsden (industrialist)

Sir James Ramsden (25 February 1822 – 19 October 1896) was a British mechanical engineer, industrialist, and civic leader, who played a dominant role in the development of the new town of Barrow-in-Furness, in the historic county of Lancashire.

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John Aspinall (engineer)

Sir John Audley Frederick Aspinall (25 August 1851 – 19 January 1937) was an English mechanical engineer who served as Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Southern and Western Railway (GS&WR) of Ireland and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) of England.

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John Barraclough Fell

John Barraclough Fell (1815 – 18 October 1902) was an English railway engineer and inventor of the Fell mountain railway system.

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John I. Thornycroft & Company

John I. Thornycroft & Company Limited, usually known simply as Thornycroft, was a British shipbuilding firm founded by John Isaac Thornycroft in Chiswick in 1866.

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Kirkby-in-Furness

Kirkby-in-Furness, generally referred to simply as Kirkby locally, is a village that is the major part of the parish of Kirkby Ireleth in the Furness district of Cumbria, England.

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L&YR Class 5

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Class5 were 2-4-2T steam locomotives designed by Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) John Aspinall and introduced from 1889 for local passenger work.

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Lake District

The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region and national park in Cumbria, North West England.

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Lancaster, Lancashire

Lancaster is a city in Lancashire, England, and the main cultural hub, economic and commercial centre of City of Lancaster district.

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List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1857

This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1857.

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List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1862

This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1862.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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LMS Fowler Class 4F

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Fowler Class 4F is a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive designed for medium freight work.

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LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-2T

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Ivatt Class 2 2-6-2T is a class of light 'mixed-traffic' steam locomotive introduced in 1946.

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LMS Jubilee Class

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Jubilee Class is a class of steam locomotive designed for main line passenger work.

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LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Stanier Class 5 4-6-0, commonly known as the Black Five, is a class of steam locomotives.

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National Trust

The National Trust (Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol; Iontaobhas Náisiúnta) is a heritage and nature conservation charity and membership organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Pinner

Pinner is a suburb in the London Borough of Harrow, northwest London, England, northwest of Charing Cross, close to the border with Hillingdon, historically in the county of Middlesex.

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Rail trail

A rail trail is a shared-use path on railway right of way.

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Railcar

A railcar (not to be confused with a railway car) is a self-propelled railway vehicle designed to transport passengers.

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Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway

The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway is a minimum gauge heritage railway in Cumbria, England.

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Ravenglass railway station

Ravenglass (also known as Ravenglass for Eskdale) is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Sharp, Stewart and Company

Sharp, Stewart and Company was a steam locomotive manufacturer, initially located in Manchester, England.

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Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism.

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Southampton

Southampton is a port city in Hampshire, England.

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Steam yacht

A steam yacht is a class of luxury or commercial yacht with primary or secondary steam propulsion in addition to the sails usually carried by yachts.

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Stroud

Stroud is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England.

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Surveying

Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them.

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Swiss chalet style

Swiss chalet style (Schweizerstil, Sveitserstil) is an architectural style of Late Historicism, originally inspired by rural chalets in Switzerland and the Alpine (mountainous) regions of Central Europe.

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SY Gondola

The steam yacht Gondola is a rebuilt Victorian, screw-propelled, steam-powered passenger vessel on Coniston Water, England.

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Tank locomotive

A tank locomotive is a steam locomotive which carries its water in one or more on-board water tanks, instead of a more traditional tender.

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Torver railway station

Torver railway station served the village of Torver, in Lancashire, England (now in Cumbria). Coniston Railway and Torver railway station are 1859 establishments in England.

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Usk

Usk (Brynbuga) is a town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, northeast of Newport.

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Wadenhoe

Wadenhoe is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire.

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Water supply network

A water supply network or water supply system is a system of engineered hydrologic and hydraulic components that provide water supply.

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Whitehaven

Whitehaven is a town and port on the English north west coast and near to the Lake District National Park in Cumberland, Cumbria, England.

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William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire

William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, (27 April 1808 – 21 December 1891), styled Lord Cavendish of Keighley between 1831 and 1834 and Earl of Burlington between 1834 and 1858, was a British landowner, benefactor, nobleman, and politician.

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William Yolland

Lieutenant Colonel William Yolland CB, FRS FRSA (17 March 1810 – 4 September 1885) was an English military surveyor, astronomer and engineer, and was Britain's Chief Inspector of Railways from 1877 until his death.

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Woodland railway station

Woodland railway station served the hamlet of Woodland, in Lancashire, England (now in Cumbria). Coniston Railway and Woodland railway station are 1859 establishments in England.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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0-4-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four coupled wheels, all of which are driven.

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0-6-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and two trailing wheels on one axle.

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2-2-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-2-2 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, two powered driving wheels on one axle, and two trailing wheels on one axle.

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2-4-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles and no trailing wheels.

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2-4-2

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2-6-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels, six coupled driving wheels and two trailing wheels.

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4-4-0

4-4-0, in the Whyte notation, denotes a steam locomotive with a wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles (usually in a leading bogie), four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and no trailing wheels.

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4-4-2 (locomotive)

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, represents a configuration of a four-wheeled leading bogie, four powered and coupled driving wheels, and two trailing wheels supporting part of the weight of the boiler and firebox.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coniston_Railway

Also known as Coniston Railway Act 1857, Furness and Coniston Railways Amalgamation Act 1862.

, Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, Ravenglass railway station, Roman Empire, Sharp, Stewart and Company, Slate, Southampton, Steam yacht, Stroud, Surveying, Swiss chalet style, SY Gondola, Tank locomotive, Torver railway station, Usk, Wadenhoe, Water supply network, Whitehaven, William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, William Yolland, Woodland railway station, World War I, World War II, 0-4-0, 0-6-2, 2-2-2, 2-4-0, 2-4-2, 2-6-2, 4-4-0, 4-4-2 (locomotive).

Coniston Railway, the Glossary

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See also

Closed railway lines in North West England

Rail transport in Cumbria

Railway lines closed in 1962

Railway lines opened in 1859

References