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• Ilkeston
  ==Railway== ...rmerly part of the Midland Railway, later the London, Midland and Scottish Railway) skirts the eastern edge of the town.
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• Rugby
  In the 19th century, Rugby became famous for its once hugely important railway junction which was the setting for Charles Dickens's story Mugby Junction. ...unction with the London and Birmingham at Rugby. Rugby became an important railway junction, and the proliferation of rail yards and workshops attracted worke
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• Hemel Hempstead
  ...ne|Bulbourne]]. It is a natural transport corridor, as roads and latterly railway lines follow the gap carved by the rivers through the [[Chiltern Hills]] fr ...between London and the Midlands passes through Apsley and Hemel Hempstead railway stations a mile south of the town centre, as does the Grand Union Canal, ea
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• Gloucester
  ...ral station, replacing Gloucester Eastgate railway station (former Midland Railway) which had stood on another site further east along the same road. Opposite ...and Gloucestershire Canal; and subsequently by the Ledbury and Gloucester Railway, which used the southern section of the former canal, until it also closed
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• Harpenden
  The [[River Lea]] flows through the Batford neighbourhood. The Nicky Line railway used to link Harpenden, [[Redbourn]] and [[Hemel Hempstead]], long since lc ...their own and to make travelling in a first-class carriage on the Midland Railway a danger to men and an impossibility to ladies." Golf has been played on th
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• Cirencester
  ...ice areas with adequate parking. Access to the railway system is at Kemble railway station on the main line to London Paddington station, about four miles fro ...opened a station at Watermoor in 1883. Cirencester thus was served by two railway lines until the 1960s.
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• Cookstown
  ...tered as a Chinese restaurant on Molesworth Street) and the Great Northern Railway in their brick station next door (now Cookstown High School's Hockey Club). ...Church (Church Street); the Hibernian Bank on James Street and the pair of railway termini on Molesworth Street.
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• Leicester
  ...ained a direct rail link to London (St Pancras) with the completion of the Midland Main Line. ...of Braunstone. In 1900 an important new transport link, the Great Central Railway provided a new goods and passenger route to London.
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• Lutterworth
  ...The third (the only one actually in Lutterworth) was on the Great Central Railway (later part of the LNER), opened on 15 March 1899. Detractors of the Great
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• Tydd St Mary
  ...erborough and Sutton Bridge Branch of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, which opened in 1866 and closed in 1959.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tydd Station
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• Belfast International Airport
  ...service started in 1933. The flight was to [[Glasgow]] and was operated by Midland and Scottish Air Ferries. This was subsequently augmented by flights to the ...the airport could one day be constructed on the mothballed Lisburn-Antrim railway line as set out in the airport master plan. This line remains in serviceabl
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• Swindon
  ...eached Swindon in 1842, bringing factories in its wake, led by the Swindon railway works. Swindon New Town was a nineteenth century creation, which the twenti ...he station on the line from London Paddington to Bristol. It is home to a railway heritage museum and to the Bodleian Library's book depository too, which co
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• Halesowen
  ...ked mostly by the latter), linking the town with Northfield on the Midland Railway's [[Birmingham]] to [[Bristol]] main line, with intermediate stations at Ru
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• Bardon Hill
  ...line from the quarry allowed the granite to be easily transported over the railway network. In 1877 the quarry was described as "great", and in 1890 as "much
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• Ripley, Derbyshire
  ...eserving locomotives, rolling stock and other items related to the Midland Railway. Ripley was once served by Ripley railway station on the Midland Railway Ripley Branch. It was also the northern terminus of the Nottinghamshire an
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• Bradford
  ...s into the city centre, back the Victorian age. The Victoria Hotel and the Midland Hotel were built to accommodate business travellers to the city during the ...was the location for the films ''Yanks'', starring Richard Gere, and ''The Railway Children'', a 1970s classic about Victorian children whose father goes miss
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• Hackenthorpe
  ...railway station was in use by people entering and exiting the area on the Midland line from [[Rotherham]] to [[Derby]]. 1855 saw the opening of the National
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• River Rother, Yorkshire
  ...grade II listed two-arched bridge built around 1840 by the [[North Midland Railway]], which carries a minor road to the golf course.<ref>{{NHLE|1109621 |Road The river was diverted to run close to the railway to the west while 1.7 million tons of coal from the reserves under the park
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• River Teme
  ...101; P. King, 'The River Teme and Other Midlands Navigations' ''Journal of Railway and Canal Historical Society'' 35(5) (July 2006), 350-1.</ref> ...ref>Peter King 'The River Teme and Other Midland Navigations' ''Journal of Railway and Canal Historical Society'' 35(5) (July 2006), 348-55. Correspondence ab
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• Adeyfield
  ...dland'' (on the location of the old Hemel Hempstead Railway Station on the Midland line.
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