blencow造句

• The post office and village pub were situated in Little Blencow, but both are now closed.
• Adam de Blencowe was awarded land by Edward III in 1358 and the original family home was built in Great Blencow.
• The mansion of "'Ennim "'just south of the village was the home for many years of the Blencow family.
• He was the son of William Langbaine, born at Barton, Westmoreland, and was educated at the free school at Blencow, Cumberland.
• Subsequently in the 15th or 16th century the family built a new home, the current Blencowe Hall, just to the west of Little Blencow.
• Also at Newbiggin is the Hanson plc Blencowe Limestone Quarry and Blockworks, and the former Blencow railway station on the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway.
• The Keswick to Penrith section followed suit in March 1972, though freight trains continued to run to Flusco and Blencow ( at the eastern end of the line ) until the following June.
• Accordingly, the station was named Blencow ( without a final  e .  ) It was one of the first on the line to be illuminated by " modern " acetylene lights.
• The line was eventually doubled over the heavy gradients between Threkeld and Red Hills : doubling between Threkeld and Troutbeck ( west of the summit ) was in effect by 1896; extension of this to Penruddock was undertaken in 1900, along with doubling east of the summit ( Red Hills to Blencow ) and was not completed until spring 1901 ..
• Unlike the M & CR, the CP & KR had severe gradients ( west-bound a climb of 1 in 70 between Penrith and Blencow, east-bound 1 in 62?between Threkeld and Troutbeck ) and therefore higher running costs; a CK & PR chairman claimed that a locomotive could haul on the M & CR a train three times as heavy as it could haul over the CK & PR . Nor did the CK & PR have the lucrative local colliery traffic of the M & CR . Passenger and goods traffic on the line were, however, sufficient to make the CK & PR profitable; eventually passenger traffic became the main revenue as mineral traffic declined further.