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• Radlett
  ...y" opposite the station was closed leaving only the "Cat and Fiddle", "The Railway Bar" and the "Red Lion Hotel". In 1860 the Midland Railway was extended from [[Bedford]] into London and a station was built at Radlet
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• Rushden
  ...branch line railway opened linking Rushden and [[Higham Ferrers]] with the Midland Main Line. The line was closed in 1959 and dismantled. In 1991 the trackbed ...t path was created joining existing footpaths with a new one along the old railway line through the town. This linked Ferrers School to Rushden town centre an
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• Leyton
  ...eighbours during the repaid suburbanisation of the region from the day the railway came and throughout the twentieth century. There is a London Overground station, Leyton Midland Road, on the Gospel Oak to Barking line.
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• Bewdley
  The Tenbury and Bewdley Railway branched off Severn Valley Railway at Bewdley, and ran through the Wyre Forest to [[Tenbury Wells]]. It crosse The West Midland Safari Park lies just out of the town, on the A456 towards Kidderminster.
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• Arkholme
  ...tunnel took the line from Wennington (where it connected with the Midland Railway) to Melling, the next station being at Arkholme.
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• Stapleford, Leicestershire
  ...ome and park. Within the park itself is the historic Stapleford Miniature Railway runs in the park. ===Miniature railway===
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• Bilston
  ...n 1992, only to be re-opened seven years later as the first phase of the [[Midland Metro]] tram line between Wolverhampton and [[Birmingham]]. There was also a further railway station within the town: Bilston West on the Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton
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• Brierley Hill
  ...und to Dudley has been closed since 1993. Currently, the nearest passenger railway station is [[Cradley Heath]], over a mile south-east of the town. There are current plans to extend to the [[Midland Metro]], reopening the railway line north of Brierley Hill with light rail services providing a link to th
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• River Tame, Staffordshire
  ...n edges of Oldbury town centre, surfacing due south of Sandwell and Dudley railway station, from which point it remains mainly on the surface and is easily tr After Croxall the Tame flows under the railway at Wichnor Viaduct soon to discharge its waters into the [[River Trent]] ne
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• Netherton, Black Country
  ...extensive private railway network, which is usually known as the Pensnett Railway, ran through the Saltwells locality. ...name="court">{{cite book |last=Court |first=W.H.B. |title=The Rise of the Midland Industries 1600-1838 |publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1953}}</ref> I
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• Wednesfield
  The area to the south of the former railway line is characterised by industrial development, mostly with small units al ...www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/Stations/wednesfield.php |title=Wednesfield railway station |publisher=Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands |accessdate
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• Willenhall
  If funding is given the go-ahead to extend the [[Midland Metro]] tram system, one of the possible extensions is the '''5 W's''' Rout ...d railway stations in the town (the other being Willenhall Stafford Street railway station), however recently funding for the line which the station would hav
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• Cleator Moor
  ...second railway to serve Cleator Moor was the Cleator & Workington Junction Railway. This new company had a station on the western edge of the town and its dou ...f Montreal Street on which it stood. The Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway suffered from subsidence and it was forced into building a deviation branch
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• Selly Oak
  ...uth. The [[Worcester and Birmingham Canal]] and the Birmingham Cross-City Railway Line run along the northern boundary of the area. ...ed the tracks south to a junction south with the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway at Kings Norton, and double-tracked the entire line length. The line was sl
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• Toton
  ...he vast area of Toton Sidings, which mark a boundary to the west, and this railway depot, built to move coal, may be the greatest agent for change in the town ...e Depot. The sidings were built as a huge marshalling yard of the Midland Railway, where coal from the Nottinghamshire Coal Field would be sorted before bein
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• Hill of Tarvit
  ...is business interests (he was chairman of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway<ref name=rampant/>). His intention was to construct a new family home with
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• Belper
  ...nd runs parallel to the River Derwent to the west. The town is also on the Midland Main Line with its own station. Regular trains run between Derby and [[Matl The construction of the North Midland Railway in 1840 brought further prosperity. Belper was the first place in the Unite
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• Bakewell
  ==Railway== ...into the stonework. It is said that the inconvenient high contour of the railway, which forced the station to be placed out of town, was due to the Duke ins
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• Bolsover
  ...ated, but services were withdrawn as early as September 1930. The Bolsover railway station on this line was known as "Bolsover Castle" in its latter days. ...ashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway, later part of the Great Central Railway and subsequently the LNER. Only the middle section from [[Chesterfield]] to
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• Clay Cross
  ...ulation by 1840. While driving the Clay Cross Tunnel for the North Midland Railway, George Stephenson discovered both coal and iron, which together with the d ...ugh the company had been formed to mine coal and manufacture coke from the railway, the supplies from [[Durham]] were preferred, and the works turned to iron
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