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  • Bedfordshire
    *{{i-HR}} [[Leighton Buzzard Light Railway]] * The [[Midland Main Line]] serves Luton and Bedford with trains to many destinations betwe
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  • Derbyshire
    **{{i-HR}} [[Midland Railway - Butterley]] **{{i-HR}} Peak Rail steam railway
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  • Hampshire
    ...reen belt]] area of restricted development around [[London]], but has good railway and motorway links to the capital, and in common with the rest of the south ...lieved to have stopped further Anglo-Saxon encroachments in south-west and midland Britain for at least a generation.
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  • Blakesley
    ===Blakesley railway station=== ...e from 1873 to 1962. It was linked to nearby Blakesley Hall by a miniature railway which ran from a terminal adjacent to the station. Nothing remains of the b
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  • Lancaster Canal
    ...them to continue paying dividends and to make investments. Eventually, the railway company offered to buy the canal, and this was formalised by an Act of Parl ...imestone fissures in the bed, and in 1939 the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, who were by now owners of the canal, obtained an Act to close the first ha
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  • Yorkshire
    [[File:Overview of Leeds City railway station 04.jpg|thumb|250px|Leeds railway station is the busiest in the county.]] ...nd York. The [[East Coast Main Line]] passes through Leeds and York. The [[Midland Main Line]] finishes at Sheffield, with a less regular service to Leeds. Ea
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  • County Cavan
    ...19th century such as Kingscourt railway station and the Cavan and Leitrim Railway. The railways were an important part of the economic development of Cavan a ...e Great Northern Railway (G.N.R.) continued to serve the Cavan and Leitrim Railway. However, in 1959 all services along the remaining rail lines were terminat
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  • County Laois
    ...receives EU funding as it is part of the cluster of three regions (Border, Midland and West), colloquially known as "BMW", that qualifies for special funding ...etween Heuston station and Cork, Limerick, travel through the county, with railway stations at Portarlington, Portlaoise and Ballybrophy. From Portarlington t
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  • County Offaly
    ...st of the county. Portarlington railway station is on the main Dublin-Cork railway line with regular commuter services to Heuston Station, Dublin and intercit ...Birr connected to the line at Roscrea until it was closed in the 1960s. A railway line also connected Birr to [[Portumna]].
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  • Westmeath
    ...nd Mullingar expanded further with the coming of the Midland Great Western Railway network in the nineteenth century. ...rt/Ballina inter-city services stopping at Athlone, while the Dublin-Sligo railway line service stops at Mullingar. The line from Athlone via Moate to Mullin
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  • Luton
    ...ilway was extended from Bedford to St Pancras, London through Leagrave and Midland Road station and opened on 9 September 1867.<ref>Dyer, ''ibid'', p 142</ref
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  • Brecon
    ...minating at '''Free Street.''' By this point, Brecon already had two other railway stations: *'''Watton''' - from 1 May 1863 when the Brecon and Merthyr Railway to [[Merthyr Tydfil]] was opened for traffic
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  • Wembley
    The town is at the meeting of railway lines, which have contributed to its growth, and four stations bear its nam In 1837, the London and Birmingham Railway (now part of the West Coast Main Line) was opened from Euston Station in [[
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  • West Drayton
    West Drayton railway station provides rail links from [[Paddington]] station in London to [[Read [[File:BmiTraining.jpg|thumb|250px|The British Midland International training centre at Stockley Close Industrial Estate]]
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  • Wolverhampton
    ...ch fed the town's industrial development.<ref>{{cite book |author=The West Midland Group |title=Conurbation: A Survey of Birmingham and the Black Country |pag ...nd Birmingham Railway, the Northern Division workshop of the Great Western Railway from 1854.<ref name="manufacturing">{{cite web |url=http://johnwoodfield.co
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  • Peterborough
    ...d the railway station is an important stop on the [[East Coast Main Line]] railway. ...gh from a market town to an industrial centre. Lord Exeter had opposed the railway's passing through [[Stamford]], so Peterborough, situated between two main
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  • Wellingborough
    ...year=1983 |title=Midland Line Memories: a Pictorial History of the Midland Railway Main Line Between London (St Pancras) & Derby |location=London |publisher=B The railway station is a Grade II Listed building, and among the many unusual and o
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  • Kettering
    ...ton, the Newton Rebellion broke out, causing a brief uprising known as the Midland Revolt, which involved several nearby villages. Protesting at land enclosur ...r several false starts Kettering station was opened in 1857 by the Midland Railway Company, providing a welcome economic stimulus to an ailing local economy,
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  • Derby
    ...Railway and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway, to form the Midland Railway, Derby became its headquarters. ...Railway systems engineering firm Bombardier Transportation who manufacture railway rolling stock at the Derby Carriage and Wagon Works, and Alstom who manufac
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  • Chesterfield
    ...part of the [[Derby City, England|Derby]] to [[Leeds]] [[railway]] (North Midland Line), which was begun in 1837 by [[George Stephenson]]. During its constru ...urch]]. In 2006, a statue of Stephenson was erected outside [[Chesterfield railway station]].
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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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  • Boxmoor
    ...man villa have been found in the grounds of Boxmoor House School near the railway station dating from around the 1st or early 2nd century AD.<ref name=romanp ...f Hemel Hempstead. In 1846, it became part of the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR).
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  • Bricket Wood
    Bricket Wood railway station is on the London Midland line between St Albans Abbey and Watford Junction stations.
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  • Ashby-de-la-Zouch
    ...Canal from 1804 and the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line of the Midland Railway from 1845. ...ervice and closed Ashby de la Zouch railway station in September 1964. The railway remains open for freight.
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  • Penrhyndeudraeth
    ...shire). Penrhyndeudraeth is also one of the early halts on the Ffestiniog Railway, from Porthmadog up to [[Blaenau Ffestiniog]], the station named "Penrhyn". ...hmadog, built the Cob, drained the Glaslyn Estuary and built the Festiniog Railway in 19th century. Before then, Penrhydeudraeth was a small farming village
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  • Sutton Coldfield
    ...hfield]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Butt |first=R.V.J. |title=The Directory of Railway Stations |year=1995 |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |location=Yeovil |isbn= *Midgley, W.: 'A Short History of the Town and Chase of Sutton Coldfield'' (Midland Counties Herald, 1904)
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  • Dewsbury
    ...station was built in the early 20th century at Savile Town by the Midland Railway. In 1985 a bypass road was built on the site of Central Station and its adj ...e recently been restored by sandblasting. Notable structures include the railway viaduct, and Machell's Shoddy and Mungo Mill, converted into apartments but
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  • Altrincham
    ...of the [[Bridgewater Canal]] to Altrincham in 1765 and the arrival of the railway in 1849, stimulating industrial activity in the town. Outlying villages wer ...further connection was created on 12&nbsp;May 1862 by the Cheshire Midland Railway (later the Cheshire Lines Committee), who opened their line from Altrincham
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  • Napsbury Park
    ...y to the north and the [[M25 motorway]] to the south, the London-St Albans railway scraping by its western edge and the B5378 which separates Napsbury Park fr ...prehistoric or Roman activity is indicated by cropmarks to the east of the railway in Napsbury hospital grounds; and again on the north side of the hospital.
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  • Kirkby-in-Ashfield
    ...Railway Leen Valley Extension line to Langwith Junction and the Mansfield Railway ...ithout a fast link to central [[Nottingham]] and nearby [[Mansfield]]. The Railway re-opened in the 1990s as part of the 'Robin Hood' line.
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  • Park Street, Hertfordshire
    ...or so residents it has two public houses. The village has the penultimate railway station on the Abbey Line from Watford Junction, which opened in 1858. [[File:Park Street Railway Station.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Park Street station]]
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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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  • New Mills
    ...and calico printing. New Mills was served by the Peak Forest Canal, three railway lines and the A6 trunk road. Redundant mills were bought up in the mid-twen The sides of the Goyt valley have been used to carry two railway lines, the Peak Forest Canal and the A6 trunk road between [[London]] and [
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  • Sandiacre
    ...currently no railway station, the town was once a terminus on the Midland Railway and passenger trains travelling on the St Pancras - Manchester Piccadilly
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  • Shirebrook
    ...to the A632 road, between [[Mansfield]] and [[Bolsover]], and on the main railway line. ==Railway==
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  • Hendon
    The Midland Railway and the Great Northern Railways were built through Hendon in the 1860s, a w ...vide liquid refreshment for navvies working on the building of the Midland Railway, and many were Irish. The Irish connection with Hendon goes back at least t
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  • Kennet and Avon Canal
    ...he canal gradually fell into disuse after the opening of the Great Western Railway. In the latter half of the 20th century the canal was restored in stages, l The Bristol and Bath Railway Path shadows and crosses the navigation several times before reaching the s
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  • Dún Laoghaire
    ...subsequently extended to the ferryport of [[Rosslare]]. The opening of the railway from Dublin saw Kingstown become a Victorian era seaside resort. The 59th (2nd North Midland) Division disembarked at Kingstown in April 1916 and marched up the road to
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  • Wixams
    ...y station to be built in Wixams, which will be an intermediate stop on the Midland Main Line between Bedford and [[Flitwick]]. The station is due to be built
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  • Cinderford
    ...r run by the Great Western Railway and Midland Railway as Cinderford Joint railway station, but this was axed as part of the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.<ref>{
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  • Dursley
    ...unction station was also closed at about this time. However, in 1994 a new railway station called Cam and Dursley was opened on the main line near the site of
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  • Stonehouse, Gloucestershire
    ...es west of [[Stroud]] and twelve miles south of [[Gloucester]]. Stonehouse railway station has a regular train service to [[London]]. ...Great Western Railway Station a year later. The Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway opened a branch to [[Nailsworth]] in 1867 and [[Stroud]] in 1885.
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  • Grosmont Tunnel
    |carries=North York Moors Railway ...35 and has now become a pedestrian route through to the [[North York Moors Railway]] engine sheds on the south side of the hill.
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  • Thornbury, Gloucestershire
    ...erve quarries at [[Tytherington, Gloucestershire|Tytherington]]. Thornbury railway station and line have been redeveloped into a supermarket, a housing estate ===Old railway line===
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  • Pontardawe
    ===Railway history=== ...nch from Ynysygeinon, near Ystalyfera, to Coelbren on the Neath and Brecon Railway, thereby connecting Pontardawe for the first time to the national rail netw
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  • Llangollen Canal
    ...t. The flow of hundreds of tons of water washed away the embankment of the railway further down the hill, tearing a 40 yd crater 50&nbsp;ft deep.<ref>The Shel
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  • Horwich
    ...le industry became a major employer and after 1884 the construction of the railway works caused the population of the town to increase dramatically. The old i ...ase in population over the next ten years was caused by the arrival of the railway works and W.T. Taylor's cotton mill. In the late 19th century, brick terrac
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  • Morecambe
    ...t started to be referred to as "Morecambe", possibly after the harbour and railway. In 1889 the new name was officially adopted. ...ire mill towns, Morecambe had more visitors from [[Yorkshire]] (due to its railway connection) and [[Glasgow]]. Between 1956 and 1989 it was the home of the
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  • Syston
    The Midland Main Line runs through the town. Syston railway station currently has one platform on what remains of the former goods line ...vsner|1984|p=223}} He died as a result of an accident near the old Syston Railway Station in September 1885.
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  • Market Harborough
    The Midland Main Line railway connects to London St Pancras International. A branch of the [[Grand Union ...closed the town's coaching trade, butMarket Harborough was cut off from te railway until a station opened in 1850 on a line from Rugby. Industry followed.
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  • River Welland
    ...the Welland in the centre of Market Harborough, flowing northwards to the railway station. ...ok, approaching from the south. The river remains on the south side of the railway, while the county border follows a meandering course to the north of it, bu
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  • Holbeach
    ...Beeching Axe) and the line closed entirely in 1965.<ref>{{pastscape|507021|Railway station}}</ref>
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  • Long Sutton, Lincolnshire
    ...n previously had a railway station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway. However, it was closed in 1959 when passenger services were withdrawn from ...now bypassed, with [[Sutton Bridge]], by the A17 which follows the former railway.
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  • Sutton Bridge
    ===Railway=== [[File:Sutton Bridge Station.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Sutton Bridge railway station ca. early 1900's]]
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  • Spalding
    ...three Banks, two newspapers. Market-day, Tuesday. Spalding is an important railway centre, while the river has been made navigable to the town for vessels of A nature reserve is situated on part of the old Boston railway line at Vernatts Drain.
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  • Fakenham
    ...has been preserved. Fakenham East railway station was on the Great Eastern Railway and closed in the 1960s although goods trains carried on until the 1980s. T ...en protected from development that would be prejudicial to the creation of railway transport links by the council.
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  • Sheringham
    ...throughout the year there is a popular market in the car park next to the railway station which attracts large crowds even out of the holiday season. The tow ...that was developed with the coming of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway line in the late 19th century. Most of Sheringham's range of buildings and
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  • Fulham
    ...udio and the former Zest gallery in Rickett Street. Lillie Bridge Depot, a railway engineering depot opened in 1872, is associated with the building and exten ...dge) at West Brompton with North End Lane and the eventual creation of two railway lines, the West London Line and the District line connecting South London w
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  • Desborough
    ...d operated by the Midland Railway, (later the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and, after Nationalisation, British Rail), as part of the extension of a li ...former RS Lawrence's shoe factory site on the High Street was sold by the Midland Co-operative Society to the council.
    7 KB (1,094 words) - 12:29, 8 July 2013
  • Higham Ferrers
    ...in 1969 with the end of goods services. Nowadays, the nearest operational railway station is at Wellingborough about four miles away but there is no bus rout ...the old station site and eventually to Wellingborough (making the heritage railway, one of only a few heritage lines around the United Kingdom to operate a wh
    8 KB (1,242 words) - 12:07, 24 August 2014
  • Thrapston
    ...d North Western Railway [[Northampton]] to [[Peterborough]] line. The old Midland station and viaduct can be seen from the adjacent A14 road.
    2 KB (292 words) - 14:13, 14 January 2016
  • Towcester
    ...axing in February 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe. The site of Towcester railway station is now a Tesco supermarket. ...r might have gained a second station on a branch line of the Great Central Railway from its main line at Brackley to Northampton, but this branch was never bu
    11 KB (1,758 words) - 22:59, 31 January 2018

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