Middleton-on-Lune railway station Middleton-on-Lune railway station Middleton-on-Lune railway station was located in Westmorland (now Cumbria), serving the hamlet and rural locale of Middleton on the Ingleton Branch Line. It was opened as Middleton in 1861 and renamed Middleton-on-Lune on 19 July 1926, closing in 1931. The Lancaster and Carlisle Railway built the Ingleton Branch Line from the existing Ingleton Station to . By the time the branch was completed in 1861, the L&CR was operated by the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR). After formal closure the line was still on occasions used for weekend excursions and to transport pupils to and from
Spherical lune Spherical lune In spherical geometry, a spherical lune is an area on a sphere bounded by two half great circles which meet at antipodal points, and is an example of a digon, {2}, with dihedral angle θ. The word "lune" derives from "luna", the Latin word for Moon. A spherical wedge is the volume of space bounded by two planes passing through a sphere center and the surface of the sphere. Great circles are the largest possible circles (circumferences) of a sphere; each one divides the surface of the sphere into two equal halves. Two great circles always intersect at