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52 relations: Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, Angela Smith (Sheffield MP), Argillite, Balfour Beatty, Campaign for Better Transport (United Kingdom), Central Railway (UK), Charles Blacker Vignoles, Cholera, Derbyshire, Dunford Bridge, Early day motion, Graham Stringer, High Speed 2, HighSpeed UK, Hollingworth, Joseph Locke, Longdendale, Longdendale Bypass, M67 motorway, Manchester, Manchester Blackley (UK Parliament constituency), Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, Manchester–Sheffield–Wath electric railway, Millstone Grit, Mottram in Longdendale, Narrow-gauge railway, National Grid (Great Britain), National Grid plc, Northern Hub, Northern Powerhouse Rail, Northwest Regional Development Agency, One NorthEast, Peak District, Penistone, Pennines, River Etherow, Sandstone, Shale, Sheffield, Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, South Yorkshire, Standedge Tunnels, Stephen Hammond, Theodolite, Theresa Villiers, Tintwistle, Totley Tunnel, Tunnel, William Halcrow, Woodhead line, ..., Woodhead, Derbyshire, Yorkshire Forward. Expand index (2 more) »
Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton
Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, CH, PC, DL (18 November 1904 – 8 March 1983) was a British Conservative politician.
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Angela Smith (Sheffield MP)
Angela Christine Smith (born 16 August 1961) is a British Labour Party politician who has represented Penistone and Stocksbridge since 2010.
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Argillite
Argillite is a fine-grained sedimentary rock composed predominantly of indurated clay particles.
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Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty plc is an English multinational infrastructure group with capabilities in construction services, support services and infrastructure investments.
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Campaign for Better Transport (United Kingdom)
The Campaign for Better Transport (formerly Transport 2000) is a UK advocacy group that promotes better bus and rail services and for supportive policies and for less expenditure on road building.
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Central Railway (UK)
Central Railway was a British company which proposed to build a new intermodal freight railway line, with a generous loading gauge, connecting the Channel Tunnel with the north of England, particularly Liverpool docks, using much of the trackbed of the former north-south Great Central Railway.
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Charles Blacker Vignoles
Charles Blacker Vignoles (31 May 1793 – 17 November 1875) was an influential British railway engineer, and eponym of the Vignoles rail.
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Cholera
Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.
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Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England.
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Dunford Bridge
Dunford Bridge is a remote hamlet in the civil parish of Dunford, lying northwest of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England, from the border with West Yorkshire and from the border with Derbyshire.
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Early day motion
An early day motion (EDM), in the Westminster system, is a motion, expressed as a single sentence, tabled by Members of Parliament that formally calls for debate "on an early day".
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Graham Stringer
Graham Eric Stringer (born 17 February 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who is the current Member of Parliament for Blackley and Broughton.
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High Speed 2
High Speed 2 (HS2) is a planned high-speed railway in the United Kingdom, directly linking London, Birmingham, the East Midlands, Leeds and Manchester.
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HighSpeed UK
HighSpeed UK (HSUK) is an advocacy group which proposes an alternative route to High Speed 2 which broadly incorporates the proposed High Speed 3 scheme.
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Hollingworth
Hollingworth is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, in Greater Manchester, England.
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Joseph Locke
Joseph Locke (9 August 1805 – 18 September 1860) was a notable English civil engineer of the nineteenth century, particularly associated with railway projects.
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Longdendale
Longdendale is a valley in Northern England, north of Glossop and southwest of Holmfirth.
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Longdendale Bypass
The Longdendale Bypass (also known as the A57/A628 Mottram-in-Longdendale, Hollingworth & Tintwistle Bypass) is a long-planned road scheme in England by the Highways Agency.
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M67 motorway
The M67 is a urban motorway in Greater Manchester, England, which heads east from the M60 motorway passing through Denton and Hyde before ending near Mottram.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.
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Manchester Blackley (UK Parliament constituency)
Manchester, Blackley was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) was formed by amalgamation in 1847.
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Manchester–Sheffield–Wath electric railway
The Manchester–Sheffield–Wath electric railway was an electrification scheme on British railways.
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Millstone Grit
Millstone Grit is the name given to any of a number of coarse-grained sandstones of Carboniferous age which occur in the British Isles.
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Mottram in Longdendale
Mottram in Longdendale is an unparished village within the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, in Greater Manchester, England.
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Narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.
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National Grid (Great Britain)
The National Grid is the high-voltage electric power transmission network in Great Britain, connecting power stations and major substations and ensuring that electricity generated anywhere in GB (England, Scotland and Wales) can be used to satisfy demand elsewhere.
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National Grid plc
National Grid plc is a British multinational electricity and gas utility company headquartered in Warwick, United Kingdom.
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Northern Hub
The Northern Hub is a rail programme in Northern England to improve and increase train services and reduce journey times between its major cities and towns by electrifying lines and removing a major rail bottleneck in Manchester.
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Northern Powerhouse Rail
Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) also known as High Speed 3 (HS3) or Crossrail for the North is a proposed railway network that aims to improve connectivity in the north of England, connecting Liverpool, Manchester, Manchester Airport, Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, Newcastle, and Hull, as well as other significant economic centres.
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Northwest Regional Development Agency
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) was the regional development agency for the North West England region and was a non-departmental public body.
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One NorthEast
One North East was the regional development agency for the North East England region.
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Peak District
The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines.
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Penistone
Penistone is a market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, which had a population of 22,909 at the 2011 census.
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Pennines
The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of mountains and hills in England separating North West England from Yorkshire and North East England.
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River Etherow
The River Etherow is a river in northern England, and a tributary of the River Goyt.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.
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Shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.
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Sheffield
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England.
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Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway
The Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway was an early British railway company which opened in stages between 1841 and 1845 between Sheffield and Manchester via Ashton-under-Lyne.
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South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.
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Standedge Tunnels
The Standedge Tunnels are four parallel tunnels beneath the Pennines in northern England.
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Stephen Hammond
Stephen William Hammond (born 4 February 1962) is a British Conservative Party politician and former UK Government Minister.
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Theodolite
A theodolite is a precision instrument for measuring angles in the horizontal and vertical planes.
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Theresa Villiers
Theresa Anne Villiers (pronounced Villers; born 5 March 1968) is a British Conservative Party politician.
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Tintwistle
Tintwistle is a village and civil parish in the High Peak district of the non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire, England.
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Totley Tunnel
Totley Tunnel is a tunnel on the Hope Valley line between Totley on the outskirts of Sheffield and Grindleford in Derbyshire, England.
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Tunnel
A tunnel is an underground passageway, dug through the surrounding soil/earth/rock and enclosed except for entrance and exit, commonly at each end.
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William Halcrow
Sir William Halcrow (4 July 1883 – 31 October 1958) was one of the most notable English civil engineers of the 20th century, particularly renowned for his expertise in the design of tunnels and for projects during the Second World War.
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Woodhead line
The Woodhead line was a railway line linking Sheffield, Penistone and Manchester in the north of England.
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Woodhead, Derbyshire
Woodhead is a small and scattered settlement at the head of the Longdendale valley in Derbyshire, England.
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Yorkshire Forward
Yorkshire Forward was the regional development agency (RDA) for the Yorkshire and the Humber region of the United Kingdom.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhead_Tunnel
