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Coniston Branch Furness Railway 1859 to 1902 By D. Butterworth
Coniston Branch Furness Railway 1859 to 1902 By D. Butterworth
Soft cover 6 pages plus two pages (well car, Coach, rail motor #1 sketches). Light staining on the edge of the pages. 1978
Coniston village owes its character to a number of influences which changed it in the 19th Century from a scattered agricultural community to its present structure and aspect.
The copper and slate industries which gained such impetus in the early decades of the last century relied on horse drawn and water borne transport. Slate and copper were ferried down the lake to Nibthwaite and thence to Greenodd and Ulverston for shipment.
To these two industries we can ascribe the appearance of our village. Its later development as a tourist centre can be credited in the first instance to the coming of the railway which itself was a response to increasing activity in slate and copper.
The Coniston Branch developed as an extension of the Furness Railway, which was born at Kirkby-in-Furness in 1846 with the patronage of the Duke of Buccleugh and the Earl of Burlington.
This first line in the Furness peninsular was designed to tranship slate from Burlington Quarries to the sea at Piel. The enterprise was to grow into the Furness network and to be instrumental in the growth of Barrow-in-Furness from a hamlet to an industrial giant in a matter of half a century.
By 1847 both the Furness Railway and the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway extended their lines into Broughton-in-Furness. The Whitehaven line crossed the Duddon at its narrowest point and ran in a curve northwards to Broughton, while the Furness line was extended to Broughton from Kirkby via Foxfield, the two lines forming a Y shaped junction before running into Broughton Station. Inevitably it was a matter of only a year until the Furness and Whitehaven lines were joined to found the West Cumberland section of what is now the main line.
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