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• Long Melford
  ...finds were made in the same year, and again were found within the largely central area of the current village. The great size and fine architecture of Holy Trinity Church make it unusual for a vil
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• Severn Valley Railway
  |name=Severn Valley Railway |operator=Severn Valley Railway Company
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• Mallerstang
  [[File:Steamtrain at Aisgill.jpg|right|thumb|350px|A steam train at Aisgill on the Settle–Carlisle line]] ...ets, with no village. The largest of the hamlets, [[Outhgill]], provides a central point for the community—but after the closure of the village hall (the Tr
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• Woodhead Tunnels
  ...y tunnels three miles long in beneath the [[Pennines]], built to carry the railway across the barrier of the Pennine Hills on what became known as the Woodhea Woodhead 1 was one of the world's longest railway tunnels when it opened in 1845. Woodhead 2 was completed in 1853 and Woodhe
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• Neath and Tennant Canal
  ...e just north of Glynneath, which was powered by a high-pressure Trevithick steam engine.<ref name=nicholson/> The Tappenden brothers had bought into the iro The canals faced competition from the [[Vale of Neath Railway]] after 1851, but remained profitable until the early 1880s, in the case of
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• Glasgow Subway
  ...as the '''Glasgow District Subway''', but was later renamed Glasgow Subway Railway. It was so called when taken over by the Glasgow Corporation who renamed it ...ble system, with one cable for each direction. The cable was driven from a steam-powered plant between West Street and Shields Road stations. There was no a
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• Great Western Main Line
  [[File:Railway bridge Maidenhead.jpeg|thumb|300px|Maidenhead Railway Bridge carrying the line over the River Thames]] ...rom the core line west of [[Swindon]] and terminates in Swansea. The term "Great Western" is also used to denote a wider group of associated routes.
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• Blackpool tramway
  ...along Church Street, Devonshire Square, Whitegate Drive, Waterloo Road and Central Drive. A new depot was built on Whitegate Drive in Marton. A line was added ...of the fleet into the 21st century. In 1936 route closures began with the Central Drive and Layton routes. Lytham Road closed in 1961, Marton in 1962, and th
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• Wednesbury Oak Loop
  ...ined an Act of Parliament in 1768. A line from coal mines at Wednesbury to central Birmingham was opened in 1769, with both ends built on the 453-ft contour, ...y wharves for the Great Western Railway (GWR) and London and North Western Railway (LNWR).<ref name=pearson/> Telford's improvements reduced the length of the
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• Montgomeryshire Canal
  ...al & River Trust network; separately, a short stretch at Llanymynech and a central section of the canal around Welshpool are also navigable, though 'isolated' ...tle = Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain
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• Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation
  ...higher than on the railways, and the canals were failing to modernise, as steam boats were banned, despite them having been in use for 50 years on the neig ...from Tinsley to Sheffield, but did not include buying the canals from the railway company, was put at £1&nbsp;million. The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Can
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• Stainforth and Keadby Canal
  ...and South Yorkshire Navigation]], an attempt to remove several canals from railway control, in 1895. There were plans to upgrade it to take larger barges and ...outh. Until its demise in 1966, the canal was crossed by the Axholme Joint Railway at Ealand. The swing bridge was retained for several years after closure, s
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• Somersetshire Coal Canal
  ...461-6 }}</ref> and later incorporated into the [[Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway]]. The Paulton route flourished for nearly 100 years and was very profitabl ...and bordering the canal route was then used for a few years to construct a railway. In October 2006 a grant was obtained from the Heritage Lottery Fund to car
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• Standedge Tunnels
  ...s beneath the [[Pennines]] in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. Three are railway tunnels and the other is a canal tunnel. They are located at the [[Standedg ...linked by cross-tunnels or adits at strategic intervals, which allowed the railway tunnels to be built quickly, reducing the need for construction shafts, as
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• East Coast Main Line
  The '''East Coast Main Line''' ('''ECML''') is a 393-mile-long railway link between [[London]] and [[Edinburgh]] via [[Peterborough]], [[Doncaster The route forms a key artery on the eastern side of Great Britain and is broadly paralleled by the A1 trunk road. It links London, th
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• West Coast Main Line
  The '''West Coast Main Line (WCML)''' is a major inter-city railway route in the [[United Kingdom]]. It is Britain's most important rail backbo ...eople. In addition, several sections of the WCML form part of the suburban railway systems in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow, with many more small
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• Metro-Land
  ...lf, or by private developers exploiting the new access to London which the railway provided. ...m of a modern home in beautiful countryside with a fast railway service to central London, until the Metropolitan line was absorbed into the London Passenger
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• High Speed 1
  '''High Speed 1''' is a 68-mile high-speed railway in [[Middlesex]], [[Essex]] and [[Kent]] between [[London]] and the [[Chann ...b |url=http://www.railway-technology.com/projects/highspeedone/| publisher=railway-technology.com| date=23 December 2008 |title=High Speed 1 |accessdate=23 De
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• Glenfinnan Viaduct
  |type=Railway viaduct The '''Glenfinnan Viaduct''' is a remarkable, curved railway viaduct on the West Highland Line in [[Glenfinnan]], [[Inverness-shire]]. L
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• Listowel
  ...y Area | work = Central Statistics Office Census 2006 Reports | publisher =Central Statistics Office Ireland |date=April 2007 | url = http://www.cso.ie/census :''The heartbreak and the moods, great and small,''
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