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London and North Western Railway

Index London and North Western Railway

The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. [1]

197 relations: Abergele rail disaster, Amelius Lockwood, 1st Baron Lambourne, Anglesey Central Railway, Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway, Baron Wolverton, Battlefield Line Railway, Belfast, Belfast–Dublin line, Birkenhead Railway, Birmingham, Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway, Buckinghamshire, Buckinghamshire Railway, Buxton, Caernarfonshire, Caledonian Railway, Cannock Mineral Railway, Carlisle, Cumbria, Carnarvon and Llanberis Railway, Carnarvonshire Railway, Cast iron, Charles Bowen Cooke, Charles Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence of Kingsgate, Cheddington to Aylesbury Line, Chelford rail accident, Cheshire, Chester and Holyhead Railway, Classical architecture, Clee Hill Junction, Cockermouth and Workington Railway, Constantine Richard Moorsom, Conway and Llanrwst Railway, Crewe Works, Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland, Cromford and High Peak Railway, Croxley Rail Link, Cumbrian Coast line, David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore, Dún Laoghaire, Dearne Valley Railway, Denbigh, Ruthin and Corwen Railway, Denbighshire (historic), Derby, Derry, Ditton Junction rail crash, Ditton railway station, Dublin, Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Railway, Earlestown, Edinburgh, ..., Edmund Faber, 1st Baron Faber, Edward Bury, Euston railway station, F&W Media International, Fleetwood, Francis Trevithick, Francis Webb (engineer), Frank Ree, Frederick Harrison, Furness Railway, George Anson (British Army officer, born 1797), George Findlay (railwayman), George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton, George Hughes (engineer), George Whale, Gilbert Claughton, Glasgow, Glasgow and South Western Railway, Grand Junction Railway, Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway, Great Northern Railway (Ireland), Great Western Railway, Greenore, Guy Calthrop, H. P. M. Beames, Hampstead Junction Railway, Harrow & Wealdstone station, Heart of Wales line, Holyhead, Howth, Huddersfield line, InterCity (British Rail), Interlocking, Irish Sea, J. Bruce Ismay, James McConnell, John Albert Bright, John Hick (politician), John Murray (publisher), John Ramsbottom (engineer), Joint-stock company, Kerosene, Lancashire, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Lancashire Union Railway, Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway, Leamington–Rugby line, Leeds, Leek Wootton, Lewis Vivian Loyd, Liverpool, Llanelly Railway, London, London and Birmingham Railway, London and South Western Railway, London Midland Region of British Railways, London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Longsight, Manchester, Manchester and Birmingham Railway, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway, Mark Huish, Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway, Michael Linning Melville, Middlesex, Midland Railway, Miles MacInnes, Nationalization, Nene Valley Railway, Nickey line, North and South Western Junction Railway, North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom), North London Railway, North Union Railway, North Wales Coast Line, Northampton and Lamport Railway, Northampton and Peterborough Railway, Northampton Bridge Street railway station, Nottingham, Oxford, Oxford Rewley Road railway station, Penmaenmawr, Peterborough, Peterborough East railway station, Philip Charles Hardwick, Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway, Preston and Longridge Railway, Preston and Wyre Joint Railway, Rail transport, Rail transport in Great Britain, Railway electrification system, Railways Act 1921, Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge, Richard Moon (1814–1899), Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, River Anker, Robert Turnbull (railway manager), Rugby and Stamford Railway, Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh, Safety valve, Samuel Carter (Coventry MP), Samuel Robert Graves, Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway, Shropshire, Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company, Sir Thomas Brooke, 1st Baronet, Sirhowy Railway, South Leicestershire Railway, South Staffordshire Railway, South Wales, St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway, Staffordshire, Stanmore branch line, Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway, Stour Valley Line, Tenbury Railway, Trent Valley line, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Vale of Clwyd Railway, Vale of Towy Railway, Varsity Line, Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway, Warrington rail crash, Warwickshire, Watford and Rickmansworth Railway, Weedon rail crashes, West Coast Main Line, West London Railway, West Midland Railway, West Midlands Trains, Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway, Wigan rail crash, William E. Dorrington, William Houldsworth, William Lowther (diplomat), Wolverton, Wolverton railway works, Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line, Wootton bridge collapse, World War I, 1846 in rail transport, 1922 in rail transport. Expand index (147 more) »

Abergele rail disaster

The Abergele rail disaster, which took place near the town of Abergele, on the north coast of Wales in 1868, was, at the time, the worst railway disaster yet in Britain, and also the most alarming.

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Amelius Lockwood, 1st Baron Lambourne

Lieutenant Colonel Amelius Richard Mark Lockwood, 1st Baron Lambourne (17 August 1847 – 26 December 1928) was a British soldier and politician.

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Anglesey Central Railway

The Anglesey Central Railway (Welsh: Lein Amlwch, Amlwch Line) was a standard-gauge railway in Anglesey, Wales, connecting the port of Amlwch and the county town of Llangefni with the North Wales Coast Line at Gaerwen.

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Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway

The Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway was a pre-grouping railway company in the English Midlands.

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Baron Wolverton

Baron Wolverton, of Wolverton in the County of Buckingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Battlefield Line Railway

The Battlefield Line Railway is a heritage railway in Leicestershire, England.

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Belfast

Belfast (is the capital city of Northern Ireland, located on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland.

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Belfast–Dublin line

The Belfast–Dublin line is a main international railway route on the island of Ireland that connects Dublin Connolly station in the Republic of Ireland and Belfast Central station in Northern Ireland.

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Birkenhead Railway

The Birkenhead Railway was formed on 1 August 1859 as a result of the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Railway merging with the Chester and Birkenhead Railway.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway

The Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway was a railway line in South Wales, within the historic boundaries of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, originally built in 1866 and immediately leased to the London and North Western Railway to transport coal to the Midlands via the Heads of the Valleys line.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire, abbreviated Bucks, is a county in South East England which borders Greater London to the south east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north east and Hertfordshire to the east.

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Buckinghamshire Railway

The Buckinghamshire Railway was a railway company in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England that constructed railway lines connecting Bletchley, Banbury and Oxford.

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Buxton

Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, in the East Midlands region of England.

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Caernarfonshire

Caernarfonshire (Sir Gaernarfon), historically spelled as Caernarvonshire or Carnarvonshire in English, is one of the thirteen historic counties, a vice-county and a former administrative county of Wales.

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Caledonian Railway

The Caledonian Railway (CR) was a major Scottish railway company.

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Cannock Mineral Railway

The Cannock Mineral Railway ran from a junction with the South Staffordshire Railway at Cannock though Cannock Chase to a junction with the London & North Western Company's Trent Valley Line at Rugeley.

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Carlisle, Cumbria

Carlisle (or from Cumbric: Caer Luel Cathair Luail) is the county town of Cumbria.

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Carnarvon and Llanberis Railway

The Carnarvon and Llanberis Railway, built under the Caernarvon and Llanberis Railway Act 1864, was an eight-mile branch line from the Carnarvonshire Railway running from Caernarfon to Llanberis, Gwynedd via Pont Rhythallt (for Llanrug), Cwm y Glo, and Padarn Halt, and terminating at Llanberis.

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Carnarvonshire Railway

The Carnarvonshire Railway was a railway connecting Caernarvon railway station (terminus of the Bangor and Caernarvon Railway line from Bangor) with Afon Wen.

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Cast iron

Cast iron is a group of iron-carbon alloys with a carbon content greater than 2%.

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Charles Bowen Cooke

Charles John Bowen Cooke (11 January 1859 – 18 October 1920) was born in Orton Longueville (then in Huntingdonshire) and was Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR).

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Charles Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence of Kingsgate

Charles Napier Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence of Kingsgate (27 May 1855 – 17 December 1927), styled The Honourable Charles Lawrence between 1869 and 1923, was a British businessman and railway executive.

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Cheddington to Aylesbury Line

The Cheddington to Aylesbury Line, sometimes referred as the Aylesbury Railway was a railway line between the village of Cheddington and the major town of Aylesbury.

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Chelford rail accident

The Chelford rail accident occurred on 22 December 1894 at Chelford railway station.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Chester and Holyhead Railway

The Chester and Holyhead Railway was incorporated out of a proposal to link Holyhead, the traditional port for the Irish Mail, with London by way of the existing Chester and Crewe Railway, and what is now the West Coast Main Line.

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Classical architecture

Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes even more specifically, from the works of Vitruvius.

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Clee Hill Junction

Clee Hill Junction was a railway junction in Shropshire, England, where the goods only line from Titterstone Clee Hill joined the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, a LNWR/GWR joint line.

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Cockermouth and Workington Railway

The Cockermouth & Workington Railway was an English railway company (established by Act of Parliament in 1845) which built and operated a railway between the Cumbrian towns of Workington and Cockermouth.

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Constantine Richard Moorsom

Constantine Richard Moorsom (1792–1861) was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy.

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Conway and Llanrwst Railway

The Conway and Llanrwst Railway was a standard gauge railway built to connect the Welsh coastal town of Conway, nowadays addressed by its Welsh name of Conwy, with the inland towns of Llanrwst and Betws y Coed.

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Crewe Works

Crewe railway works is a British railway engineering facility built in 1840 by the Grand Junction Railway.

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Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland

Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland, KG (20 July 1851– 27 June 1913), styled Lord Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower until 1858, Earl Gower between 1858 and 1861 and Marquess of Stafford between 1861 and 1892, was a British peer and politician from the Leveson-Gower family.

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Cromford and High Peak Railway

The Cromford and High Peak Railway (C&HPR) in Derbyshire, England, was completed in 1831, to carry minerals and goods between the Cromford Canal wharf at High Peak Junction and the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge.

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Croxley Rail Link

The Croxley Rail Link was a proposed railway engineering project in the Watford and Three Rivers districts of Hertfordshire, England, that would have connected the London Overground and the London Underground's Metropolitan line at.

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Cumbrian Coast line

The Cumbrian Coast line is a rail route in North West England, running from Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness via Workington and Whitehaven.

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David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore

David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore PC, QC (3 December 1838 – 22 August 1919) was an Irish lawyer and Conservative politician.

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Dún Laoghaire

Dún Laoghaire is a suburban coastal town in County Dublin, Ireland, about 12 km (7.5 miles) south of Dublin city centre.

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Dearne Valley Railway

The Dearne Valley Railway (DVR) was a railway line which ran through the valley of the River Dearne in South Yorkshire.

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Denbigh, Ruthin and Corwen Railway

| The Denbigh, Ruthin and Corwen Railway was a standard gauge line that connected Corwen with Denbigh via Ruthin in Wales.

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Denbighshire (historic)

Historic Denbighshire (Sir Ddinbych) is one of thirteen traditional counties in Wales, a vice-county and a former administrative county, which covers an area in north east Wales.

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Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England.

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Derry

Derry, officially Londonderry, is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fourth-largest city on the island of Ireland.

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Ditton Junction rail crash

Ditton Junction is near Widnes on the Liverpool spur of the former London and North Western Railway.

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Ditton railway station

Ditton railway station, originally Ditton Junction, was a railway station which served the Ditton area of Widnes in Cheshire, England.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Railway

| The Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Railway (DNGR, DN&GR) was an Irish gauge railway in Ireland.

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Earlestown

Earlestown forms the western part of Newton-le-Willows in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edmund Faber, 1st Baron Faber

Edmund Beckett Faber, 1st Baron Faber (9 February 1847 – 17 September 1920) was a British Conservative politician.

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Edward Bury

Edward Bury (22 October 1794 – 25 November 1858) was an English locomotive manufacturer.

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Euston railway station

Euston railway station (also known as London Euston) is a central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden, managed by Network Rail.

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F&W Media International

F&W Media International Limited, formerly known as David & Charles Publishers (also styled as David and Charles), is a publisher of illustrated non-fiction books, eBooks, digital products, craft patterns and online education courses.

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Fleetwood

Fleetwood is a town and civil parish within the Wyre district of Lancashire, England, lying at the northwest corner of the Fylde.

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Francis Trevithick

Francis Trevithick, from Camborne, Cornwall, was one of the first locomotive engineers of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR).

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Francis Webb (engineer)

Francis William Webb (21 May 1836 – 4 June 1906) was a British engineer responsible for the design and manufacture of locomotives for the London and North Western Railway (LNWR).

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Frank Ree

Sir Frank Ree (died 17 February 1914) was a British railway manager, General Manager of the London and North Western Railway and the North London Railway from 1909.

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Frederick Harrison

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Frederick Harrison (184431 December 1914) was railway manager and an officer in the British Army's Engineer and Railway Volunteer Staff Corps.

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Furness Railway

The Furness Railway (Furness) was a railway company operating in the Furness area of Lancashire in North West England.

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George Anson (British Army officer, born 1797)

Major-General George Anson CB (13 October 1797 – 27 May 1857) was a British military officer and Whig politician from the Anson family.

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George Findlay (railwayman)

Sir George Findlay (18 May 1829 – 26 March 1893) was general manager of the London and North Western Railway in nineteenth century England.

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George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton

George Carr Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton (27 March 1797 – 24 July 1873) was a banker with interests in the railways, a partner in the family firm of Glyn, Mills & Co., which was reputed to be the largest private bank in London.

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George Hughes (engineer)

George Hughes (9 October 1865 – 27 October 1945) was an English locomotive engineer, and chief mechanical engineer of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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George Whale

George Whale (7 December 1842 – 7 March 1910) was a British locomotive engineer who was born in Bocking, Essex, and educated in Lewisham.

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Gilbert Claughton

Sir Gilbert Henry Claughton, 1st Baronet (21 February 1856 – 27 June 1921), was an English businessman and politician.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Glasgow and South Western Railway

The Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR) was a railway company in Scotland.

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Grand Junction Railway

The Grand Junction Railway (GJR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed between 1833 and 1846 when it was amalgamated with other railways to form the London and North Western Railway.

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Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway

The Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway was a joint railway owned by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) and the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) in east Leicestershire.

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Great Northern Railway (Ireland)

The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (GNR(I) or GNRI) was an Irish gauge railway company in Ireland.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.

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Greenore

Greenore is a small town, townland and deep water port on Carlingford Lough in County Louth, Ireland.

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Guy Calthrop

Sir Calthrop Guy Spencer Calthrop, 1st Baronet (26 March 1870 – 23 February 1919) was a British railway manager.

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H. P. M. Beames

Hewitt Pearson Montague Beames, (9 May 1875 – 5 March 1948) was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway from 1920 to 1922.

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Hampstead Junction Railway

The Hampstead Junction Railway was a railway line in north-west London, England, opened in 1860.

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Harrow & Wealdstone station

Harrow & Wealdstone is a interchange station in Wealdstone in the London Borough of Harrow.

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Heart of Wales line

The Heart of Wales line (Rheilffordd Calon Cymru) is a railway line running from Craven Arms in Shropshire to Llanelli in southwest Wales.

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Holyhead

Holyhead (Caergybi, "Cybi's fort") is a town in Wales and a major Irish Sea port serving Ireland.

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Howth

Howth is a village and outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland.

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Huddersfield line

The Huddersfield line is one of the busiest rail lines on the West Yorkshire MetroTrain network in Northern England.

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InterCity (British Rail)

InterCity (or, in the earliest days, the hyphenated Inter-City) was introduced by British Rail in 1966 as a brand-name for its long-haul express passenger services (see British Rail brand names for a full history).

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Interlocking

In railway signalling, an interlocking is an arrangement of signal apparatus that prevents conflicting movements through an arrangement of tracks such as junctions or crossings.

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Irish Sea

The Irish Sea (Muir Éireann / An Mhuir Mheann, Y Keayn Yernagh, Erse Sea, Muir Èireann, Ulster-Scots: Airish Sea, Môr Iwerddon) separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain; linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the Straits of Moyle.

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J. Bruce Ismay

Joseph Bruce Ismay (12 December 1862 – 17 October 1937) was an English businessman who served as chairman and managing director of the White Star Line.

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James McConnell

James Edward McConnell (1815–1883) was one of the first locomotive engineers of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR).

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John Albert Bright

John Albert Bright (1848 – 11 November 1924) was an English industrialist and Liberal Unionist and Liberal politician.

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John Hick (politician)

John Hick (2 July 1815 – 2 February 1894) was a wealthy English industrialist, art collector and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880.

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John Murray (publisher)

John Murray is a British publisher, known for the authors it has published in its history, including Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, and Charles Darwin.

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John Ramsbottom (engineer)

John Ramsbottom (11 September 1814 – 20 May 1897) was an English mechanical engineer.

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Joint-stock company

A joint-stock company is a business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders.

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Kerosene

Kerosene, also known as paraffin, lamp oil, and coal oil (an obsolete term), is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping.

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Lancashire Union Railway

| The Lancashire Union Railway ran between Blackburn and St Helens in Lancashire, England.

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Lancaster and Carlisle Railway

The Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (L&CR) was a British railway company authorised on 6 June 1844 to build a line between Lancaster and Carlisle in North West England.

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Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway

The Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway was an early British railway company, in Lancashire, England.

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Leamington–Rugby line

The Leamington–Rugby line was a railway running from Leamington Spa to Rugby.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Leek Wootton

Leek Wootton is a village in Warwickshire, England, roughly one mile from Kenilworth and two miles from Warwick.

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Lewis Vivian Loyd

Colonel Lewis Vivian Loyd DL (14 November 1852 – 21 September 1908) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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Llanelly Railway

The Llanelly Railway and Dock Company was an early Welsh railway system.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London and Birmingham Railway

The London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, existing from 1833 to 1846, when it became part of the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR).

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London and South Western Railway

The London and South Western Railway (LSWR) was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922.

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London Midland Region of British Railways

The London Midland Region (LMR) was one of the six regions created on the formation of the nationalised British Railways (BR) and initially consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) lines in England and Wales.

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London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR; known also as "the Brighton line", "the Brighton Railway" or the Brighton) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1922.

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London, Midland and Scottish Railway

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS)It has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR.

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Longsight

Longsight is an inner city area of Manchester, England, about south of the city centre.

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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 and Birmingham Railway

The Manchester and Birmingham Railway was built between Manchester and Crewe and opened in stages from 1840.

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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, South Junction and Altrincham Railway

The Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway (MSJ&AR) was a suburban railway which operated a 13.7 km (8½ mile) route between Altrincham in Cheshire and London Road Station (now Piccadilly) in Manchester.

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Mark Huish

Captain Mark Huish (9 March 1808 – 18 January 1867) was an English railway manager.

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Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway

The Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway, also known as the Heads of the Valleys line, was a railway line which operated between 1860 and 1958 between the Monmouthshire town of Abergavenny and the Glamorgan town of Merthyr Tydfil in South East Wales.

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Michael Linning Melville

Michael Linning Melville, born 1805 in Ireland died 22 June 1878 in Kensington, Middlesex, was a Scots Barrister, Judge and Lieutenant Governor of Sierra Leone.

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Middlesex

Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is an historic county in south-east England.

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Midland Railway

The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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Miles MacInnes

Miles MacInnes (21 February 1830 – 28 September 1909) was a British landowner, railway director and Liberal Party politician.

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Nationalization

Nationalization (or nationalisation) is the process of transforming private assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.

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Nene Valley Railway

The Nene Valley Railway (NVR) is a preserved railway in Cambridgeshire, England, running between Peterborough Nene Valley and Yarwell Junction.

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Nickey line

The Nickey line (also known as the Harpenden to Hemel Hempstead branch railway) is a disused railway that once linked the towns of Hemel Hempstead and, initially, Luton but later Harpenden via Redbourn, in Hertfordshire, England.

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North and South Western Junction Railway

The North and South Western Junction Railway (NSWJR) was a short railway in west London, England.

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North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom)

The North Eastern Railway (NER) was an English railway company.

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North London Railway

The North London Railway (NLR) company had lines connecting the north of London to the East and West India Docks in the east of the city.

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North Union Railway

The North Union Railway was an early British railway company, operating in Lancashire and formed in 1834 by an Act of Parliament which authorised its founding as the first-ever railway amalgamation.

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North Wales Coast Line

The North Wales Coast Line (Rheilffordd Arfordir Gogledd Cymru), also known as the North Wales Main Line, is the railway line from Crewe to Holyhead.

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Northampton and Lamport Railway

The Northampton & Lamport Railway is a standard gauge heritage railway in Northamptonshire, England.

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Northampton and Peterborough Railway

The Northampton and Peterborough Railway was an early railway promoted by the London and Birmingham Railway to run from a junction at Blisworth to Northampton and Peterborough.

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Northampton Bridge Street railway station

Northampton Bridge Street is a former railway station in Northampton the main town of Northamptonshire on the Northampton and Peterborough Railway which connected Peterborough and Northampton.

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Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Oxford Rewley Road railway station

Oxford Rewley Road railway station was a railway station serving the city of Oxford, England, located immediately to the north of what is now Frideswide Square on the site of the Saïd Business School, to the west of Rewley Road.

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Penmaenmawr

Penmaenmawr is a town and community in Conwy County Borough, Wales, which was formerly in the parish of Dwygyfylchi.

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Peterborough

Peterborough is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 183,631 in 2011.

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Peterborough East railway station

Peterborough East was a railway station in Peterborough, England.

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Philip Charles Hardwick

Philip Charles Hardwick (London 1822–1892) was an English architect.

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Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway

The Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint RailwaysThe final word is in the plural.

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Preston and Longridge Railway

The Preston and Longridge Railway (P&LR) was a branch line in Lancashire, England.

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Preston and Wyre Joint Railway

The Preston and Wyre Joint Railway (PWJR) – in full, the Preston & Wyre Railway and Dock Company – was the result of a merger in 1839 between the Preston & Wyre Railway and Harbour Company, formed in 1835 and the Preston & Wyre Dock Company, formed in 1837.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Rail transport in Great Britain

The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world.

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Railway electrification system

A railway electrification system supplies electric power to railway trains and trams without an on-board prime mover or local fuel supply.

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Railways Act 1921

The Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government and intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition and retain some of the benefits which the country had derived from a government-controlled railway during and after the Great War of 1914–1918.

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Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge

Richard de Aquila Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge, (28 January 1837 – 18 May 1912), styled Lord Richard Grosvenor between 1845 and 1886, was a British politician and businessman.

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Richard Moon (1814–1899)

Sir Richard Moon (1814–1899) was a railway engineer.

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Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, (10 September 1823 – 26 March 1889), styled Earl Temple until 1839 and Marquess of Chandos from 1839 to 1861, was a British soldier, politician and administrator of the 19th century.

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River Anker

The River Anker is a river in England that flows through the centre of Nuneaton.

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Robert Turnbull (railway manager)

Sir Robert Turnbull MVO (21 February 1852 22 February 1925) was a British railway manager.

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Rugby and Stamford Railway

The Rugby and Stamford Railway was an early railway in England built in 1850.

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Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh

Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh (29 March 1874 – 14 September 1967) was an Anglo-Irish businessman, politician, oarsman and philanthropist.

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Safety valve

A safety valve is a valve that acts as a fail-safe.

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Samuel Carter (Coventry MP)

Samuel Carter (15 May 1805 – 31 January 1878) was a Member of Parliament for his native city of Coventry, and solicitor to two major railway companies (the London and North Western Railway and Midland Railway) for nearly four decades during the development of Britain’s rail network.

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Samuel Robert Graves

Samuel Robert Graves (7 June 1818 – 18 January 1873) was an Irish-born businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1865 to 1873.

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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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Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway

The Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway was an independently developed English railway, the first to run train services in Herefordshire.

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Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway

|The Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway (S&WR) was a standard gauge railway which connected the towns of Shrewsbury and Welshpool.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (alternatively Salop; abbreviated, in print only, Shrops; demonym Salopian) is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, and Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south.

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Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company

The Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company was a Company in England, formed in 1846, which managed several canals and railways.

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Sir Thomas Brooke, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Brooke, 1st Baronet, JP, DL, FSA (31 May 1830 in Honley – 16 July 1908 in Huddersfield) was a British baronet.

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Sirhowy Railway

The Sirhowy Tramroad was a plateway built to convey the products of ironworks at Tredegar to Newport, South Wales.

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South Leicestershire Railway

The South Leicestershire Railway was founded in 1850 as the Nuneaton and Hinckley Railway, with Parliamentary powers to build a railway from on the London and North Western Railway to in Leicestershire.

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South Staffordshire Railway

The South Staffordshire Railway was the railway company responsible for building several lines in and around the area of Staffordshire, England.

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South Wales

South Wales (De Cymru) is the region of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west.

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St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway

St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway, later known as St Helens Railway, was an early railway company in Lancashire, England, which opened in 1833.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

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Stanmore branch line

The Stanmore branch line was a railway line in Harrow, Middlesex (now Greater London), in the United Kingdom.

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Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway

The Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway was an early railway company in England which was opened in 1857 between Stockport Edgeley and Whaley Bridge.

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Stour Valley Line

The Stour Valley Line is the historic and colloquial name for the line of the Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Stour Valley Railway Company between Birmingham and Bushbury, just north of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, England.

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Tenbury Railway

The Tenbury Railway was a railway that ran between Woofferton and Tenbury station in Shropshire, England.

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Trent Valley line

The Trent Valley line is a railway line between Rugby and Stafford in England, forming part of the West Coast Main Line.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Vale of Clwyd Railway

The Vale of Clwyd Railway was a (standard-gauge) line which connected the towns of Rhyl and Denbigh via St Asaph.

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Vale of Towy Railway

The Vale of Towy Railway (VoTR) was a Welsh railway that provided an 11.25 mile-long extension of the Llanelly Railway from Llandeilo to Llandovery.

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Varsity Line

The Varsity Line (or Oxford to Cambridge line) is the railway route that used to link the English university cities of Oxford and Cambridge, operated successively by the London and North Western Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and British Railways.

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Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway

The Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway was a railway line that was in operation from 1 November 1853 to 7 July 1985.

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Warrington rail crash

The Warrington rail crash occurred at Walton Junction just south of the town of Warrington in Lancashire on 29 June 1867.

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Warwickshire

Warwickshire (abbreviated Warks) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

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Watford and Rickmansworth Railway

The Watford and Rickmansworth Railway (W&RR) ran services between Watford and Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, England.

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Weedon rail crashes

Weedon, Northamptonshire on the West Coast Main Line has been the site of two serious derailments in 1915 and 1951, killing 10 and 15 people respectively.

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West Coast Main Line

The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important railway corridors in the United Kingdom, connecting the major cities of London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow.

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West London Railway

The West London Railway was conceived to link the London and Birmingham Railway and the Great Western Railway with the Kensington Basin of the Kensington Canal, enabling access to and from London docks for the carriage of goods.

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West Midland Railway

The West Midland Railway was an early British railway company.

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West Midlands Trains

West Midlands Trains (WMT) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom that operates passenger trains on the West Midlands franchise between London and stations in the English Midlands.

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Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway

The Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway was an English railway company which built and operated a standard gauge railway in Cumberland, England intended to open up the hematite orefield to the south-east of Whitehaven.

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Wigan rail crash

The Wigan rail crash was a railway accident which occurred at Wigan North Western station, England, to a northbound excursion train in the very early morning of 3 August 1873.

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William E. Dorrington

William E Dorrington (1852–1926) was Chairman and Treasurer of the Manchester Royal Exchange Limited, a director of the London and North Western Railway Company (succeeded by the LMS), a Merchant and Shipper and formerly a major of the 3rd battalion Cheshire Regiment of Volunteers.

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William Houldsworth

Sir William Henry Houldsworth, 1st Baronet (20 August 1834 in Ardwick, Manchester – 18 April 1917 in Kilmarnock) was a mill-owner in Reddish, Lancashire.

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William Lowther (diplomat)

William Lowther (14 December 1821 – 23 January 1912) was a British diplomat and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1892.

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Wolverton

Wolverton is a constituent town of Milton Keynes in north Buckinghamshire, England.

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Wolverton railway works

Wolverton railway works, known locally as Wolverton Works or just The Works, was established in Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, by the London and Birmingham Railway Company in 1838 at the midpoint of the -long route from London to Birmingham.

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Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line

The Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line was a railway branch line in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom running from Wolverton on the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) (today's West Coast Main Line) to Newport Pagnell.

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Wootton bridge collapse

The Wootton bridge collapse occurred on 11 June 1861, when the rail bridge over the road between Leek Wootton and Hill Wootton in Warwickshire collapsed under the weight of a passing goods train on the line between Leamington Spa and Kenilworth owned by the London and North Western Railway Company.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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1846 in rail transport

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1922 in rail transport

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_and_North_Western_Railway

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