Items in or near Cumbria (results page 1)

1.—“Royal Scot” train, near Shap summit, Engine No. 6134 “Samson”British Locomotives Illustrated (1933)

Among the outstanding features of British Railway operation of to-day is the development of the long distance non-stop run. This has been made possible by water-troughs, enabling an engine to replenis [...]

Keywords: railways, transport, engines, steam engines, trains, shap, colour

Places shown: Shap; Cumbria; England

Added: 2010-02-09

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Furness Abbey.The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

[...] at the time of the Domesday survey [c. A.D. 1080] there was no county of Lancashire, but the three portions which the county now contains lay scattered. The district of Cartmell had been deta [...]

Keywords: ruins, arches, norman architecture, abbeys, greyscale

Places shown: Barrow-in-Furness; Cumbria; England

Added: 2010-10-01

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