A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY, a railway in Lancashire and Cheshire; from Manchester south-south-eastward to Stockport, and thence southsouth-westward, past Alderley and Church-Hulme, to Crewe. It was authorized in 1837, and opened in 1842; it is 31 miles long, and goes into junction at Crewe with the Grand Junction line to Birmingham; it was formed on a capital of £2,800,000; and it was amalgamated, in 1846, with the Grand Junction, and with the London and Birmingham, to constitute the London and Northwestern.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a railway" (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features") |
| Administrative units: | Cheshire AncC Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Manchester |
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