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SHREWSBURY AND POTTERIES JUNCTION RAILWAY, an assemblage of railway lines in Salop; from Market-Drayton on the Wellington and Drayton, and connecting with the Shrewsbury and Crewe, the Welshpool, the Severn Valley, and the Shrewsbury and Hereford. It is aggregately 23½ miles long; and was authorized in 1865.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "an assemblage of railway lines" (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features") |
Administrative units: | Shropshire AncC |
Place: | Shrewsbury |
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