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.
NORTH BRITISH railway, an amalgamated railway system, partly in England, but chiefly in Scotland. The main line connects with the North eastern at Berwick-upon-Tweed, and goes west-north-westward to Edinburgh; another line connects with the North eastern at Morpeth, and goes westward, past Cambo, to the valley of the North Tyne; another line connects with the North eastern in the neighbourhood of Hexham, and goes north-westward, up the valley of the North Tyne, and onward to Riccarton, within Scotland; another line connects with the Northwestern at the general railway-station of Carlisle, and goes northward to Longtown, north-eastward thence up the Esk and the Liddel to Kershope-Foot, passes there into Scotland, and proceeds by Riccarton and Hawick toward Edinburgh; another line goes from Carlisle west-north-westward, along the course of the quondam ship-canal to Port-Carlisle, and sends off abranch from Drumburgh south-westward and westward to Silloth; a short branch runs from Longtown westward to Gretna; and numerous lines and branches run and ramify within Scotland, to Peebles, Glasgow, Perth, Dundee, and other places. The English portions of the system include the Border Counties railway, authorized in 1854; the Border Union railway, 1859; the Wansbeck Valley, 1859; the Port-Carlisle, 1853; and the Carlisle and Silloth Bay, 1855.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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