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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
    20 KB (3,101 words) - 23:18, 16 November 2018
  • 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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