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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.
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• 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
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• Thrapston
  ...d North Western Railway [[Northampton]] to [[Peterborough]] line. The old Midland station and viaduct can be seen from the adjacent A14 road.
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• 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
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• Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
  ...Book]]. It expanded rapidly during the Industrial Revolution. The Midland Railway was formed here, and it is the birthplace of D H Lawrence. ...way station in Eastwood, with services to Nottingham on the Great Northern Railway.<ref name=moorgreen>{{Cite journal
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• Crossings of the River Thames
  ...e|Maidenhead]], [[Gatehampton Railway Bridge|Gatehampton]] and [[Moulsford Railway Bridge|Moulsford]]. ...and now used to carry the East London Line. The Tower Subway was the first railway under the Thames, which was followed by all the deep-level [[London Undergr
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• Upminster
  ...d a tannery, gravel extraction and a brick works that was connected to the railway station by a tramway in 1895. ..."Wolmar">{{cite book |author = Wolmar, Christian |title = The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever
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• Church Stretton
  ...centuries called Lake Lane and became Station Road with the arrival of the railway in the town, before becoming Sandford Avenue in 1884.<ref name=Crowe>Crowe ...bject to flooding after heavy rain and in 2000 serious flooding closed the railway line through the town.
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• Cheadle
  ...and later owned by the North Staffordshire Railway, with the building of a railway station at Majors Barn, this giving access to further industries and moveme ...and Scottish Railway Railway, which had taken over the North Staffordshire Railway, built a diversion line around Huntley tunnel and abandoned it.
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• Tamworth
  ...ham]] arriving in Tamworth in 1847, and later the London and North Western Railway, which provided direct trains to the capital. A split-level station exists [[File:Tamworth railway station MMB 14 390XXX.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Tamworth railway station]]
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• River Wreake
  ...ate 18th century, though after the building of the Syston and Peterborough railway in the mid 19th Century, the canal was disused and fell into ruin. Many of ...e canal company as part of the agreement to build the railway. The Midland Railway allowed the canal to fall into disrepair because it was the major competit
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• Ludgershall, Wiltshire
  ...railway station, with the stores were rebuilt in 1971 and 1982. In 1943 a railway line from the army depot south of Tidworth Road was built to join the Ludge ...along with the northern section of the Midland and South Western Junction Railway to [[Swindon]], the southern section to [[Andover]] remains open to allow t
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• Bentham
  ==Railway== ...by the "Little" North Western Railway, it was later bought by the Midland Railway and is now operated by Northern Rail.It has recently undergone improvements
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• Ilkley
  ...tion offering frequent trains to each destination from Ilkley station. The railway, before the Beeching Axe, also connected to Addingham, Bolton Abbey, and Sk ...Eastern Railway. A further connection was made in May 1888, by the Midland Railway, to [[Skipton]] via Bolton Abbey.
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• Normanton, Yorkshire
  ...es stretch across the [[Pennines]] and at the time had the world's longest railway station platform at Normanton - a quarter of a mile long. The station was, ...rchange were lifted the year after. Very little now remains of Normanton's railway and mining heritage.
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• Tadcaster
  ...n from Copmanthorpe to Cross Gates, joining the Church Fenton to Harrogate railway line between Tadcaster and Stutton. The collapse of railway investment in 1849 led to the line's being abandoned after the viaduct had
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• Cavan
  ...r the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) and those of the Great Northern Railway (GNR). The Town Hall was built in just over a year, 1908-1909.
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• Edenderry
  === Railway === A single railway track connected Edenderry to nearby [[Enfield, Meath|Enfield]] until 1963.
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• Maguiresbridge
  ...ack-bone rail infrastructure was administered by the Midland Great Western Railway which also linked to other major towns: namely, [[Sligo]], [[Tullamore]], v ...station serving as the western terminus of the narrow gauge Clogher Valley Railway opened on 2 May 1887 and was shut on 1 January 1942.<ref>{{cite web | title
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• Castle Bromwich
  The Midland Railway arrived in 1842 and Castle Bromwich Station was rebuilt in 1901. Boy Scouts
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• Baginton
  ...k" tree are within the village, whilst the Midland Air Museum and Electric Railway Museum, Warwickshire are just outside Baginton. The Midland Air Museum on Rowley Road is adjacent to the northern boundary of Coventry
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• Mercia
  ...Dow">Dow (1973)</ref><ref>Clement Edwin Stretton, ''History of The Midland Railway'', 1901</ref> However, in 1897 the ''Railway Magazine'' noted that there appeared ''"to be no foundation that the wyvern
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• Queensbury, Yorkshire
  ...ayout in Britain (the only other example was [[Ambergate]], on the Midland Railway in [[Derbyshire]]). * [http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Queensbury.htm Queensbury railway station]
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• Swindon and Cricklade Railway
  |name=Swindon and Cricklade Railway |picture=Hayes Knoll railway station by Brian Robert Marshall.jpg
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• River Derwent, Derbyshire
  ...book | last=Rimmer | first=A. | year=1998 | title=The Cromford & High Peak Railway | edition=New | work=Locomotion Papers No. 10 | publisher=Oakwood Press | i
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• River Derwent, Yorkshire
  ...ition they charged high tolls on barge freight.More cargo was moved to the railway and by the 1890s the only regular trade on the Derwent was on its lower rea
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• Barnack
  ...gton station. The Syston – Peterborough line was absorbed by the Midland Railway, which in 1858 renamed the station ''Uffington and Barnack''. British Railw ...lway station on the east side of the village. The London and North Eastern Railway absorbed the GNR in 1923 and closed the branch line in 1929.
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• Rushden, Higham and Wellingborough Railway
  |name=Rushden, Higham and Wellingborough Railway |picture=Running line at Rushden, Higham & Wellingborough Railway.jpg
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• Salcey Forest
  ...by its own railway station on the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway until 1908.
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• Leagrave
  ...ceives a tributary called Knapps Brook which joins from culverts under the railway embankment and Toddington Road. Napps Brook is a combination of brooks from ...he Midland Railway company in 1868 on its extension to St Pancras. The old Midland station buildings still exist, having been carefully restored in the 1980s.
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• Murrow
  ...nd Great Northern Joint Railway and Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway respectively.
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• Bridgewater Canal
  ...ia". It later faced intense competition from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the [[Macclesfield Canal]]. Navigable throughout its history, it is on ...motives.{{sfn|Hayes|2004|p=148|ps=}} In 1867 the Fletchers built a private railway line and the Bedford Basin with facilities for loading coal from Howe Bridg
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• Sharpness
  ...irst the only stone quay was on the landward side of the dock, but after a railway swing bridge was built across the dock, the island area between the two doc ...ess branch of the Bristol and Gloucester Railway, by this time part of the Midland, and opened on 2 August 1875.<ref name="Maggs, 33" >{{Cite book
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• Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal
  ...the southern section was used for the course of the Ledbury and Gloucester Railway. It is the subject of an active restoration scheme. ...increase in trade from the longer canal, the company tried to sell it to a railway company almost immediately, but were unsuccessful, and so tried to boost tr
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• Harlington, Bedfordshire
  ...railway station, in the west of the village.. It was built by the Midland Railway in 1868 on its extension to St Pancras. The original intention had been to *1868: Harlington railway station opened.<ref name="Timeline"/>
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• River Sheaf
  ...taries of the Sheaf are the Porter Brook, which joins it beneath Sheffield Midland station, and the Meers Brook. The river has been polluted upstream through ...rossley |Flavell |2006 |p=156}}</ref> The river shares its valley with the railway, and there are a further five crossings before both reach Sheffield Station
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• Southill, Bedfordshire
  ...ll, parish and village with railway station (1½ miles north-west, Midland Railway), east Bedfordshire; parish 5734 acres, population 989, ecclesiastical dist
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• Didcot Railway Centre
  |name=Didcot Railway Centre |picture=Didcot Railway Centre.JPG
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• Brill
  Brill railway station was once a north-western terminus of the [[London Underground]] sys ...e Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway, the Duke of Buckingham built the light railway to provide freight access by rail to his estates at [[Wotton Underwood]]. T
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• North Yorkshire Moors Railway
  |name=North Yorkshire Moors Railway |owned=North York Moors Historical Railway Trust Ltd
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• Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
  |name=Keighley and Worth Valley Railway ...andard gauge railway and connects to the national rail network at Keighley railway station.
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• Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway
  |name=Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway |operator=Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway
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• Pontrilas
  ...re was also a chemical factory owned by Wrekin Chemical Co beside the main railway line to the north of the village. Pontrilas railway station is currently closed but has the potential to be re-opened with serv
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• Hinton-on-the-Green
  ...hnearyou.com/hinton-on-the-green-st-peter/ church] and what used to be the railway station. The [[River Isbourne]] valley divides Hinton into the "East Villa ...ged to the Midland Railway (later part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway), and was situated on a lengthy loop line, branching off the [[Bristol]] to
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• Ashton under Hill
  ...ing to the Midland Railway (later part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway), and situated on a lengthy loop line, branching off the [[Bristol]] to [[B
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• South Tynedale Railway
  |name=South Tynedale Railway |picture=Narrow gauge Polish engine at new home on South Tyndale Railway.jpg
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• Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway
  | name = Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway | picture = Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway.jpg
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• Giant's Causeway & Bushmills Railway
  |name=Giant's Causeway & Bushmills Railway The '''Giant's Causeway & Bushmills Railway''' is a narrow gauge heritage railway operating on a two-mile track between the [[Giant's Causeway]] and [[Bushmi
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• Auchterhouse
  ...aerial photography, and a stone circle at Templelands was destroyed during railway construction in the 19th century.<ref name="archaeology">{{cite web|title=T ...=railway>[http://www.auchterhouse.com/history/railway.htm Dundee–Newtyle Railway] - Auchterhouse Community Council</ref>
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• New Invention, Staffordshire
  ...... and others ... adopted it also.<ref>Timmins, S., ''Birmingham and the Midland hardware district'', Routledge, 1968, p. 88n.</ref></blockquote> ...ld Road. The nearest railway station is at [[Bloxwich]] and the nearest [[Midland Metro]] tram stop four miles off in Wolverhampton.
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• Llanbedr
  ...rget Rolling: A History of Llanbedr Airfield 1941-2002'', Hinckley, Leics: Midland Publishing ISBN 1-85780-136-9</ref> Opposite the airfield is one of two NAC Llanbedr railway station, formerly known as Talwrn Bach Halt, is a little out of the village
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• Chinley
  ...96 was recorded at the 2011 Census. Historically, before the coming of the railway, the area was economically dominated by agriculture. Nowadays most inhabita ==The railway==
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• M6 motorway
  ...oast Main Line) where the motorway runs in a split-level cutting above the railway in the descent from Shap Fell through the Lune Gorge into southern Westmorl ...w.ciht.org.uk/motorway/m5m6midlink.htm|title=M6|work=The Motorway Archive. Midland Links Motorways|publisher=Self-published|accessdate=9 July 2012}}</ref>
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• Hazel Grove
  ...uxton lines from Stockport. Hazel Grove (Midland) was situated between the railway overbridges at the south end of the town and was open from 1902 until 1917. ...ctory, occupying the entire triangle between Macclesfield Road and the two railway lines. This seemed also to have been extended behind the Norbury Church, in
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• Delamere Forest
  ...d-Cheshire Railway Line runs east–west through Delamere Forest; Delamere railway station is located at {{map|SJ555704}}, around ½&nbsp;mile (800&nbsp;m) fr ...cluding brown earths, podsols, peats and gleys. One valley adjacent to the railway line has eight different soil types within a small area, and hosts a soil t
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• Bredbury
  ...years ago a Roman coin was dug up on the edge of the road between Bredbury railway station and St Mark's Church. The coin long antedates any Roman occupation [[File:Bredbury railway station in 1989.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Bredbury Railway Station]]
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• Draycott, Derbyshire
  ...Trains on the [[Midland Main Line]] pass through the village but Draycott railway station is now closed.
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• Crich
  In 1840 George Stephenson, in building the North Midland Railway, discovered deposits of coal at Clay Cross and formed what later became the
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• Midland Railway steam railway
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• Midland Railway - Butterley
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• Midland Railway – Butterley
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• Castle Donington
  ...rkway opened early in 2008 at [[Ratcliffe-on-Soar]] providing links on the Midland Main Line. ...ington, running past the site of the old goods yard, now a scrap yard. The railway remains open for substantial flows of freight traffic as an alternative to
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• Kibworth
  The Midland Main Line runs through the area. Kibworth railway station, which served both villages, closed in 1968.
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• Kirby Muxloe
  ...idland Railway built a line through Kirby, and on 1 July 1859 Kirby Muxloe railway station opened at Kirby fields. In 1882, the fields known as Far and Near T On 7 September 1964 the Kirby Muxloe railway station closed in the Beeching Axe.
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• Barrow upon Soar
  ...rrow has its own railway station on the Midland Main Line. The Mountsorrel Railway, carrying granite from the [[Mountsorrel]] quarries, used to run here; the
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• Battlefield Line Railway
  |name=Battlefield Line Railway |owned=Shackerstone Railway Society
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• Belgrave Hall
  ...had by then become heavily mortgaged, was sold by Ann's heirs in 1845 to a railway entrepreneur called John Ellis.{{sfn|Statham|2013|p=52}} [[File:John Ellis Leicester Railway.jpg|thumb|John Ellis by John Lucas (1852)]]
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• Great Central Railway
  |name=Great Central Railway |picture=4141 Great Central Railway (1).jpg
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• Forth Bridge
  The '''Forth Bridge''' is a cantilever railway bridge over the [[Firth of Forth]] between [[West Lothian]] and [[Fife]]. I ...has the world's second-longest single span. The bridge and its associated railway infrastructure is owned by Network Rail Infrastructure Limited. It is consi
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• Moira, Leicestershire
  ...pened its Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line through Moira in 1845. Moira railway station served the village until British Railways closed it in 1964. The bu ...g system. Moira Junction Local Nature Reserve occupies 8½ acres of former railway sidings nearby.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Sp
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• Bure Valley Railway
  |name=Bure Valley Railway |picture=Bure Valley Railway DSC00533.jpg
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• Mid-Norfolk Railway
  |name=Mid-Norfolk Railway |operator=Mid-Norfolk Railway Preservation Trust|
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• North Norfolk Railway
  |name=North Norfolk Railway |picture=Weybourne Station, North Norfolk Railway - geograph.org.uk - 246555.jpg
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• West Bridgford
  ...ised bridges link particularly well with cycling routes to Nottingham, the railway station and the university areas, making several rapid, safe, car-free rout ...the line's embankment has been converted into a public footpath. Parts of railway sleepers and stones can still be seen on the path.
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• Hucknall
  ...brought increased wealth to the town along with the construction of three railway lines. ...st was the Midland Railway (later part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway line from [[Nottingham]] to [[Mansfield]] and [[Worksop]], closed to passen
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• Kidlington
  ...nd renamed Woodstock Road "Kidlington". British Railways closed Kidlington railway station in 1964. The station building remained in 1983. Speculation from th ...26. Train operator Chiltern Railways decided to build a new Oxford Parkway railway station close to the site of the former halt as part of its Project Evergre
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• Harborne
  ...end of the short Harborne Branch Line off the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Birmingham-[[Wolverhampton]] line at [[Ladywood]], opened on 10 August 1874
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• Chasewater Railway
  |name=Chasewater Railway ...s of [[Chasewater]] in [[Staffordshire]]. It is now operated as a heritage railway.
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• Manifold Way
  ...Hamps]], following the route of the former Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway, a 2'&nbsp;6" gauge line which closed in 1934 after a short life. ...anifold Way was opened in July 1937 after the London, Midland and Scottish Railway handed over the trackbed to the council. Tarmacked throughout, and with onl
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• Severn Valley Railway
  |name=Severn Valley Railway |operator=Severn Valley Railway Company
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• Manchester Metrolink
  ...|title=RATP buys Manchester Metrolink operator |date=2 August 2011 |work=[[Railway Gazette International]] |location =London}}</ref> In 2014/15, 31.2 million ...alongside the roadway or in the central reservation, and converted former railway lines.<ref name=metuk/> It is operated by a fleet of Bombardier Flexity Swi
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• Carnwath
  ...lly part of the Caledonian Railway, later the London, Midland and Scottish Railway was closed in the Beeching Axe in the 1960s.
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• Langwathby
  The village is by the famous Settle to Carlisle Line, which has a railway station in the village that has become a visitor attraction. [[File:Langwathby railway station 1.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Train at Langwathby]]
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• Cricklewood
  ...am the impetus for the urbanisation of all the villages of Middlesex: the railway came to nearby [[Willesden Green]] in the 1870s. ...ewood has two conservation areas, the Mapesbury Estate and the Cricklewood Railway Terraces.
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• Beech Bottom Dyke
  ...ed by the Thameslink/Midland mainline railway at [[Sandridge]]. Beyond the railway embankment it continues, to finish just short of the St Albans to Sandridge
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• Digbeth
  ...ilt out of Staffordshire blue brick. At the border with [[Bordesley]], the railway viaduct meets another viaduct (Duddeston Viaduct), which is disused. This v ...h Coach Station (now Birmingham Coach Station), which was built in 1929 by Midland Red.
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• Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal
  ...rthern end, to service collieries. The canal was taken over by the Midland Railway in 1846, but remained profitable until the 1890s, after which it steadily d ..., it passes the station that is the headquarters of the [[Battlefield Line Railway]].
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• BCN Main Line
  ...rst=Michael|authorlink=|coauthors=|editor=|others=|title=Canal Companion - Midland Rings |year=1990|publisher=J. M. Pearson & Associates|isbn=0-907864-53-8}}< ...s proposals were swayed by the threat of a new Birmingham to [[Liverpool]] railway.<ref name=p/>
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• Aston, Birmingham
  ...was next door to the Midland Vinegar Brewery. The brewery was owned by the Midland Brewery Company was built around 1877.<ref>{{cite book|author=Douglas Hickm [[File:Aston railway station - 2007-09-25.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Aston railway station]]
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• Moseley
  ...by Moseley railway station from 1867 to 1941. It was opened by the Midland Railway on the Camp Hill line. A previously named Moseley station on the same line
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• Dyce
  [[File:Bmi (British Midland) offices - geograph.org.uk - 971803.jpg|thumb|Head office of BMI Regional, ...]." British Midland International. Retrieved on 28 December 2011. "British Midland Regional Ltd Registered Office Aberdeen Airport East Wellheads Drive Dyce A
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• Riccarton
  ===Riccarton and Craigie railway station=== ...1905.<ref name="Robin">Robin, G. H. (1962), ''The Nith Valley Route.'' The Railway Magazine, January P. 23.</ref>
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• New Ross
  ...hnson's Atlas & Gazetteer of the Railways of Ireland , ( Stephen Johnson ) Midland Publishing Limited</ref> from the Albatros fertilizer factory into the town ...rail option to these areas and solve the local traffic problems. New Ross railway station opened on 19 September 1887, closed for passenger traffic on 30 Mar
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• Beckford
  Beckford once had a railway station, belonging to the Midland Railway](later part of the LMS), and situated on a lengthy loop line, branching off
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• Ashchurch
  ...the [[M5 motorway]], on the east by the [[Birmingham]] to [[Bristol]] main railway line, on the south by the A46 road and on the north by the boundary with [[ ==Railway==
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• Nottingham Express Transit
  ...t 2015 | archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20150805125536/http://www.railway-technology.com/projects/nottingham/ | archivedate = 5 August 2015 | deadurl ...g north from a terminal at Station Street, just to the north of Nottingham railway station] through the city centre, branching to serve twin termini at [[Huck
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• Castle Gresley
  ...ned the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line through the parish and Gresley railway station at Castle Gresley. The station was closed in the 20th century but t
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• Long Eaton
  ...in the growing town, lace-making and railway wagon manufacturing. A large railway yard at [[Toton|Toton Sidings]] grew just north of the town. The Long Eaton railway station is on the Midland Main Line and the [[Erewash Canal]] passes through the town.
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• Swansea Valley
  ...has had no rail connection since passenger services on the former Midland Railway line between Swansea and [[Brynamman]] via Ystalyfera ceased in 1952.
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• Totley Tunnel
  ...Pennines]] in [[Derbyshire]]. It is 6,230 yards long on the former Midland Railway Manchester-Sheffield line. It extends between [[Totley]] on the outskirts ...High Speed 1 tunnels opened in 2007 it became the fourth-longest mainline railway tunnel in the UK.
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• Royal Canal
  ...s of Inland Navigation, the New Royal Canal Company, Midland Great Western Railway Company, Great Southern Railways, CIE, and (from 1986) the Office of Public ...and building a new railway along its bed but decided instead to build the railway beside the canal. The two run side by side from Dublin to Mullingar. Compet
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• Midland Metro
  [[File:MidlandMetroGenericSymbol.svg|thumb|250px|Midland Metro]] [[File:New Midland Metro trams (14960892188).jpg|thumb|Urbos 3 trams at the Midland Metro depot in Wednesbury]]
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• Sheffield Supertram
  ...ef> A study has concluded that it is not worth expanding Rotherham Central railway station because it would cost £161 million to expand the station but only ...erdings Park lines consist of on-street running, with the exception of the railway station and the viaduct at Granville Road.
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• Beeston, Nottinghamshire
  ...edge. There are two main areas of the town; north of the railway line (the Midland Main Line) lies the main part, including the main shopping district, whilst ...for rental. The last serious flood was in 1947 and reached far beyond the railway line, most of Queens Road was flooded as was Nether Street. The constructio
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• Killamarsh
  ...The third was a branch line of the [[Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway]] (later part of the Great Central) from Langwith Junction (later renamed S There are several public houses in the town, including The Midland, The Steelmelters, The Crown, The Nags Head, and the West End Hotel.
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• Eckington, Derbyshire
  ...es containing coal and ironstone. The [[Chesterfield Canal]] and [[Midland Railway]] passed through the parish.<ref name="tde"/> The Moss Brook is a tributary
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• Renishaw
  ...e [[Trans Pennine Trail]] long-distance footpath which runs along a former railway line. Adjacent to this is the route of the [[Chesterfield Canal]] which pas ...he Sheffield Midland station was built. This route was the [[North Midland Railway]] from [[Derby]] to [[Leeds]].
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• Clowne
  ...publisher=ClowneVillage.co.uk |accessdate = 2009-12-07}}</ref> Both of the railway stations in the village spelt their names differently at different times; t ...the [[Midland Railway]] lines which ran through the village each having a railway station. The colliery survived a fire in 1920 but closed in 1929 after the
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• Stourbridge Canal
  ===Railway Age=== ...below 8 per cent for the first time in 1873. For many canal companies, the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, which became law in 1888, had a detrimental effect o
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• Worcester and Birmingham Canal
  ==Birmingham West Suburban Railway== ...he Worcester and Birmingham Canal south to the [[Birmingham and Gloucester Railway]] to allow access to their new station at Kings Norton.
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• Stourbridge Extension Canal
  ...ers of the first mine to open, built a tramway to Brockmoor in 1825, and a railway from the [[Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal]] was constructed by Lord ...e if the railway company did not run the canal in the public interest. The railway company paid £49,000 for the canal, and it provided one of the two sources
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• Tame Valley Canal
  ...aqueduct, near Tame Bridge Parkway railway station (an unusual case of the railway pre-dating a neighbouring canal). {{PoIgb|Midland Metro|52.5429|-2.0188|SO987939|0.7|name=Midland Metro}}
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• Wednesbury Oak Loop
  ...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 ...Deepfields Junction, the canal passes under a London, Midland and Scottish Railway bridge, after which there was a basin to the north, which served Deepfields
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• Caldon Canal
  ...way from Froghall to Cauldon Quarries was replaced by a new cable-operated railway in 1849. It included inclined planes at Froghall, Oldridge and Cotton, and ...c. Responsibility for the canal passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1940, who closed the Leek branch under an Act of Parliament obtained in
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• Montgomeryshire Canal
  ...ays and Canal Company was bought out by the [[London, Midland and Scottish Railway]] in 1922 and the canal became increasingly run-down. ...e a statutory duty to maintain the canal, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway decided to abandon it. In 1944 an Act of Abandonment was passed by Parliame
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• Hurleston Junction
  ...e Union system was closed by the owners, the [[London Midland and Scottish Railway]], in 1944, but the main line was retained, and the line to Llangollen was
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• Huddersfield Broad Canal
  ...assed into railway ownership in 1845, but prospered into the 20th century. Railway ownership ceased in 1945, when it was bought by the Calder and Hebble Navig ===Railway ownership===
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• Cromford Canal
  ...Trent]] and [[Leicester]] and was a terminus of the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway. ...ic, there was a lively freight interchange with the Cromford and High Peak Railway, which traversed the plateau of the Peak District from Whaley Bridge in the
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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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• 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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• Ribblehead Viaduct
  |carries=Settle-Carlisle railway line ...nd 104 feet tall on its brick pillars, which carries the [[Settle-Carlisle Railway]] across Batty Moss in the valley of the [[River Ribble]] at [[Ribblehead]]
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• Gunthorpe, Rutland
  ...lets, with just 10 houses and 19 residents. Despite being dissected by the railway and the main [[Oakham]] to [[Uppingham]] A6003 road, the tiny hamlet of Gun ...art of the railway which became known as the [[London Midland and Scottish Railway]], running between [[Kettering]] and Oakham from the mid-19th Century and t
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• South Luffenham
  ...lway station was opened in 1848 and closed in 1966. In fact there were two railway stations in the parish, since Morcott station lay just within the South Luf ...n and North Western Railway|LNW Railway]] for a pipe to run underneath the railway. The owner of the top well then demanded ten shillings a year. When the Cou
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• Norbury, Derbyshire
  ...5.<ref>Gifford, Alan. 1999. Derbyshire Watermills; Corn Mills. Pp 91–94. Midland Wind and Watermills Group</ref> ...branch line to [[Ashbourne, Derbyshire|Ashbourne]] at Norbury and Ellaston railway station and this continued until 1952 (and 1954 for freight traffic).<ref>B
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• Swansea Canal
  Sold to the Great Western Railway in 1873, it continued to make a profit until 1895. A period of decline foll ...ks contracted or closed. In 1871, the Company approached the Great Western Railway, and negotiated a price of £107,666 for the main Swansea Canal, and £40,0
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• Desford
  ...lway station was built at Newtown Unthank to serve the parish. The Midland Railway took over the line in 1845 and had extended it to [[Burton-on-Trent]] by 18
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• Neidpath Viaduct
  ...gton, Lanarkshire|Symington]] to [[Peebles]] branch line of the Caledonian Railway over the [[River Tweed]] to the south-west of [[Neidpath Castle]]. ...n Railway.<ref name=canmore>{{canmore|131260|Peebles To Symington Junction Railway, Neidpath Viaduct}}</ref>
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• Lyne Viaduct
  ...gton, Lanarkshire|Symington]] to [[Peebles]] branch line of the Caledonian Railway over [[Lyne Water]] to the west of Peebles.<ref name=canmmore>{{canmore|145 ...uch larger Caledonian Railway.<ref>{{canmore|Peebles To Symington Junction Railway, Neidpath Viaduct}}</ref> The bridge is smaller but of similar design to th
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• Cossington, Leicestershire
  ..., passing close to the village. Many years ago there was a Cossington Gate railway station which has long since gone, the only evidence remaining on old maps,
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• Bidford-on-Avon
  ===Railway=== ...952.<ref>Dunn, J.M., (1952) ''The Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway,'' Lingfield: The Oakwood Press</ref>
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• Morton, Derbyshire
  The Midland Railway opened a station at Doe Hill in 1862.
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• Reddish
  ...orth square. It pictures the herons commonly seen in [[Reddish Vale]], the railway viaduct, and the clock monument to Sir William Houldsworth]] The canal was purchased by the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway in 1848.<ref name=Ashmoretransport/> Traffic declined and the canal was des
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• Chorlton-cum-Hardy
  ...ed rural character made it popular among the middle class. The loss of its railway station, the conversion of larger houses into flats or bedsitters, and sign ...Victorian property developers who arrived in the wake of the coming of the railway in 1880, to distinguish this Chorlton from [[Chorlton-upon-Medlock]]. The f
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• Didsbury
  ...ow been converted to nursing homes and offices. The opening of the Midland Railway line in 1880 contributed greatly to the rapid growth in the population of D
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• Heaton Mersey
  ...ess for residential development, runs parallel to the old track bed of the Midland line from Stockport Tiviot Dale. From January 1889 until 4 May 1968, there
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• Piddington, Northamptonshire
  ...triction, at the side of the chicken farm. The track bed is intact but the railway bridge is cracked, possibly caused by a vehicle collision.
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• Stoke Bruerne
  ==Railway== ...h road has a railway bridge still in position near the former station. The railway ran east to join the [[West Coast Main Line]] and then into [[Bedfordshire]
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• Hulme
  ...housing interspersed with the myriad smoking chimneys of the mills and the railway. Added to the lack of sanitation and rampant spread of disease, this gave a ...> Little Ireland was a small slum between Oxford Road, the Medlock and the railway serving Manchester Oxford Road Station,<ref>http://goo.gl/maps/TGFwg</ref>
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• Woodford Halse
  ...nt [[River Cherwell]] and the former course of the Great Central Main Line railway. ...nction Railway (later part of the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway] was opened through the parish. The line passed just over ½ mile south of
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• Withington
  ...lway station to Manchester Central railway station operated until Didsbury railway station closed in 1961. ...essdate=17 March 2008}}</ref> Two special trains were chartered to Burnage railway station to take spectators to the landing. Paulhan's progress was followed
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• Turvey
  ...o Northampton was built through the parish and opened in 1872. There was a railway station in Station Road about a mile east of the centre of the village. Bri
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• Withington, Gloucestershire
  ...Withington had a railway station on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway which ran between [[Cirencester]] and [[Cheltenham]] Spa.
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• Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal
  ...l]]. The canal company later converted into a railway company and built a railway line close to the canal's path, which required modifications to the Salford ===Railway proposal===
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• Mickleover
  == Railway history == ...the Friargate Line was built as a rival to the already established Midland Railway which at the time had a monopoly over Derby, Nottingham and the surrounding
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• Upper Broughton
  Upper Broughton had a railway station on the Midland Railway route between London and Nottingham. The line still exists today as the Old ...h | first=Colin | authorlink=| coauthors=| title=The Nottingham and Melton Railway 1872 - 2012 | year=2012 | publisher=| location=| isbn=| page=}}</ref> It w
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• Broadstone, Dublin
  ...d and now runs almost wholly underground. The Broadstone Station, a former railway terminus, is located opposite the Kings Inns at Constitution Hill. ...one's importance was derived came from its location as one of Dublin's six railway termini.
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• Wotton Underwood
  ...l |first1=Vic |last2=Smith |first2=Keith |title=Aylesbury to Rugby |series=Midland Main Lines |date=November 2006 |publisher=Middleton Press |location=Midhurs The Great Central Railway built a line from Grendon Underwood to Princes Risborough, and upon that op
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• Lazonby
  |picture=Railway Bridge, Lazonby - geograph.org.uk - 993191.jpg |picture caption=The railway bridge,<br />often considered the centre of the village
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• Loughrea
  ...Loughrea removed most of the remains of the original track bed. Loughrea railway station opened on 1 December 1890 and finally closed on 3 November 1975.<re
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• Clifden
  ...fden railway station was the western terminus of the Midland Great Western Railway.<ref name="Railbrit"/> ...ddition, all petrol was confiscated, roads barricaded and made impassable, railway bridges were blown up and telegraph lines cut. Newspapers were forbidden.<r
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• Enfield, Meath
  ...ose to the border with [[County Kildare]]. The town is on the Dublin-Sligo railway line. It is located on the R148 regional road,<ref name="OSI MAP" /> former ...passed through Innfield, and with the arrival of the Midland Great Western Railway the name change to Enfield. The name Innfield became Enfield towards the en
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• New Houghton, Derbyshire
  ...Pleasley were closed in 1930 (Midland Railway) and in 1931 (Great Northern Railway).<ref>{{cite book |last=Anderson |first=P. Howard |title=Forgotten Railways
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• Birr
  Birr railway station opened on 8 March 1858, but finally closed on 1 January 1963.<ref>{ ...ool. Hotels include the County Arms and Dooly's Hotel. The newspaper ''The Midland Tribune'''covering South Offaly and North Tipperary has its office in the t
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• Settle–Carlisle line
  The '''Settle–Carlisle line''' is a 73-mile-long main railway line between [[Settle]] in [[Yorkshire]] and [[Carlisle]] in [[Cumberland]] ...have also been reconnected to the line. It remains one of the most popular railway routes in the UK for charter trains and specials. After damage by a landsli
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