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Wraysholme Halt railway station

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247:. The railway company were asked to install a siding to serve the new works. Approval was given in November 1916 and by May 1917 a siding and controlling signal box had been built. To house the airship station workers an estate was built at what is now Ravenstown and the line was extended to deliver building materials. The Vickers airship station project was abandoned in late 1917 making the railway's latest works redundant and, after lying out of use for some time, the siding and signalling were removed in August 1922. 273:
James Lewis who lived at the crossing house was found dead on the line. An inquest ruled that he had met an accidental death probably having been hit by a railway engine in the early hours of the morning. On 3 November 2008 Jonathon Crabtree was killed when his car was hit by a train on the crossing
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The Furness Railway opened the halt in 1911 at the request of the local Territorial Force unit. Two timber platforms were erected next to the existing
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on Wraysholme Lane. The halt was classified as a non-public timetable station and did not feature in the publicly advertised railway timetable.
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The level crossing at Wraysholme Lane has been the site of at least two fatal incidents. On 3 August 1906 the body of Furness Railway foreman
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Barrow District - Wraysholme halt. Proposed reconstruction of platforms (Report). Barrow-in-Furness County Borough Council. 1937.
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in 1937 but nothing came of the proposal although the remains of the platforms were present until 1960.
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Rail Accident Report: Fatal accident at Wraysholme crossing, Flookburgh, Cumbria; 3 November 2008
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reduced the use of the ranges and the halt was last used about 1922.
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Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser and North Lonsdale Advertiser
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Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology
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the halt was not open to the public and was used by the
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Automatic Open Crossing Locally monitored + Barriers
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A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain
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54°10′13″N 2°56′55″W / 54.17028°N 2.94861°W / 54.17028; -2.94861
Grid reference
SD381753
Furness Railway
Furness Railway
Furness
exclave
Lancashire
Cark and Cartmel
Kents Bank
British army
Territorial Force
Rifle Range
Humphrey Head
level crossing
Vickers Limited
airship
Flookburgh
Morecambe Bay
First World War
Barrow Borough Council
platelayer
Automatic Open Crossing Locally monitored
Automatic Open Crossing Locally monitored + Barriers



Railway & Canal Historical Society
ISBN
978-0-901461-57-5

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