EPW042091 ENGLAND (1933). Harrington Colliery, Lowca, from the west, 1933
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Title | [EPW042091] Harrington Colliery, Lowca, from the west, 1933 |
Reference | EPW042091 |
Date | June-1933 |
Link | |
Place name | LOWCA |
Parish | LOWCA |
District | |
Country | ENGLAND |
Easting / Northing | 297924, 521746 |
Longitude / Latitude | -3.579505153359, 54.580477017173 |
National Grid Reference | NX979217 |
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Coastal railway from Carlisle through Maryport, Workington, Whitehaven Sellafield, Barrow-in-Furness, Ulverston, Carnforth and on to Lancaster.
It is still open in 2024. |
DaveH |
Sunday 14th of January 2024 10:12:21 PM |
Probable location of Lowca's first station, used almost exclusively for workmen's trains to Workington, Moss Bay, Seaton and, during WW1, Maryport. |
DaveH |
Monday 17th of July 2017 08:51:49 PM |
Lowca passenger station, southern terminus of the Harrington & Lowca Light Railway (usually referred to as the Lowca Light Railway.) |
DaveH |
Monday 17th of July 2017 08:41:32 PM |
Bain's Siding. Here the line from Lowca met the Gilgarran Branch. Up to closure in 1973 coal from Solway Colliery, Workington came up the Gilgarran Branch from Parton (off shot to the right) and was collected by a Lowca loco for the washeries at Harrington No. 10 pit. |
DaveH |
Friday 6th of May 2016 11:25:03 PM |
Bain's Siding. Here the line from Lowca met the Gilgarran Branch. Up to closure in 1973 coal from Solway Colliery, Workington came up the Gilgarran Branch from Parton (off shot to the right) and was collected by a Lowca loco for the washeries at Harrington No. 10 pit. |
DaveH |
Friday 6th of May 2016 11:24:58 PM |
Pithead winding gear |
MB |
Friday 24th of January 2014 01:26:54 PM |
No.11 Pit I think? |
reg instone |
Thursday 16th of March 2017 11:49:59 PM |
Pithead gear |
MB |
Friday 24th of January 2014 01:26:06 PM |
Small steam locomotive - a saddle tank, probably - for shunting the colliery sidings |
MB |
Friday 24th of January 2014 01:25:19 PM |