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Tuesdays, and large quantities of cattle and sheep were sent off by 

 rail to Manchester and other towns — the demand being so great 

 that at first sufficient trucks were not available for their conveyance. 

 In February, 1849, a similar fair was started at Milnthorpe Station, 

 and 26 truck loads of fat cattle were dispatched by the railway to 

 Manchester. Penrith also started a fortnightly fair on Mondays. The 

 branch line from Ingleton to Low Gill was opened in 1861 ; its con- 

 struction was greatly delayed by the opposition of the landowners 

 through whose land it passed. In 1852 the electric telegraph was 

 introduced into the county along the railways, and a few years later 

 along the sides of the turnpike roads. 



The South Durham and Lancashire L^nion Railway which was 

 opened August, 1861, enters the county at Stainmore and passes through 

 Kirkby Stephen and Ravenstonedale to Tebay where it joins the Lancaster 

 and Carlisle. A branch line, knouTi as the Eden Valley Railway, starting 

 from Kirkby Stephen, passes through Appleby to Penrith ; it was opened 

 for traffic in 1862. This line and the South Durham and Lancashire Union 

 were afterwards absorbed by the North Eastern Railway. It was not 

 tin 1876 that the Midland Railway was opened ; it enters the county at 

 Mallerstang and proceeds in a north-westerly direction through Kirkby 

 Stephen to Appleby, thence to Newbiggin where it enters Cimiberland. 

 The Ulverston and Lancaster Railway, now known as the Fumess, passes 

 through a small portion of the county near its southern boundary, it 

 joins the Lancaster and Carlisle at Camforth ; this railway was opened 

 in August, 1857. A small branch from Amside on this railway to 

 Hincaster, on the London & North Western line, completes the railways 

 of the coimty, it was opened for traffic in 1876. 



In 1904 the Lake District Road Traffic Company started running 

 a system of motors from Bowness and Windermere to various places 

 in the district in summer, and a curtailed service in winter as far as 

 Grasmere. The fares are : — Windermere to Ambleside, 1/6 single, 2/6 

 return ; Windermere to Grasmere, 2/3 single, 3/9 return. The gross 

 receipts of the Company, in 1911, amounted to £3,040 15s. 5d., the 

 expenses being £1,661 19s. 9d., and depreciation, &c., £488 15s. 8d., 

 leaving a balance of £890 out of which a dividend of 2J per cent, was 

 paid, absorbing £170 is. 3d., leaving a balance of £717 i8s. gd. to be 

 carried forward. 



