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It says the £86m storage facility at Longtown in Cumbria will support about 450 jobs. [The Longtown site is rail served from Mossband Junction on the West Coast Main Line.]
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Dr Neil Hudson MP has called for action on reopening the Penrith to Keswick line, extending the Borders Railway through Longtown to Carlisle, and reopening Gilsland Station.
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Keswick: The Games Room of the Keswick Hotel, under the canopies of the old station, looked inviting on a cold wet November evening. There was a second similar canopied platform here (See image [[34066]]) but ...
Mark Bartlett 30/11/2021


Gilsland: Known in the past for its sulphurous spa waters, the village of Gilsland stands alongside Hadrians Wall, straddling the border between Northumberland and Cumbria. The station was first opened in 1836 ...
John Furnevel 06/05/2006


Longtown: View from the southbound Scottish Grand Tour about to pass through Longtown station on 4 January 1969. [Ref query 6622]
D Walker Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] 04/01/1969

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