Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COCKERMOUTH AND WORKINGTON RAILWAY

COCKERMOUTH AND WORKINGTON RAILWAY, a railway in Cumberland; westward, down the left bank of the river Derwent, from Cockermouth to Workington. It is 8½ miles long; and makes a junction, at Workington, with the Whitehaven railway. It was authorized in 1845, and completed in 1847. About three-fourths of its traffic are in coal.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Cumberland AncC
Place: Cockermouth

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