Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BIRMINGHAM RAILWAYS

BIRMINGHAM RAILWAYS, lines of railway radiating from Birmingham, and giving it railway communication with most parts of the kingdom. These are nine, the Birmingham and Derby, the Birmingham and Gloucester, the Birmingham and Oxford, the Birmingham and Wolverhampton, the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, the North Staffordshire, the South Staffordshire, the London and Birmingham, and the Manchester and Birmingham; but the first and the second have been amalgamated with the Midland, the third and the fourth with the Great Western, and the other five with the London and North Western; and they will be noticed in the articles on these heads.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Administrative units: Warwickshire AncC
Place: Birmingham

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