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    Museum celebrates ‘one off’ survivor’s 175 years as an operating railway

    Apr 07, 2020 3 minutes
    By Geoff Courtney
    CUMBRIAN
    RAILWAYS ASSOCIATION/HERBERT WHITE COLLECTION
    CUMBRIAN RAILWAYS ASSOCIATION/PETER
    ROBINSON COLLEC TION

    A PRIVATELY owned Cumberland railway museum is celebrating the 175th anniversary of the opening of an idiosyncratic line within the county. In its heyday it had two private stations, suffered early financial mismanagement but went on to become the second oldest railway company in the 1923 Grouping. It closed its first stations in the 1840s and lost most of its others in 1950 – and yet survives to this day as part of the national passenger network.

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