Line Details
- Viaducts: The line crosses several major estuaries - the rivers Kent and Leven being among them - over substantial viaducts.
- Tunnel: the Bransty Tunnel in Whitehaven is 1,333 yards (1,219 m) in length
- Total mileage (lines owned or worked) (1912): 190.25 miles (306.18 km).
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