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Carries the main line railway across the Firth of Tay: Tees railway viaduct: Barnard Castle: 223 m (732 ft) 1860: Carried the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway over the River Tees. Demolished 1971: Telescopic Bridge, Bridgwater: Bridgwater, Somerset: Bascule bridge: II* Carried railway over the River Parrett. Now a footbridge. Thornton ...
The Railway Haters: Opposition To Railways, From the 19th to 21st Centuries (Pen and Sword, 2019). Casson, Mark. The world's first railway system: enterprise, competition, and regulation on the railway network in Victorian Britain (Oxford UP, 2009). Clapham, J. H. An economic history of modern Britain; The early railway age, 1820–1850 (1930 ...
The Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway was a railway line that was in operation from 1 November 1853 to 7 July 1985. The railway was created by an act of Parliament, the Warrington and Altrincham Junction Railway Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. lxxi), on 3 July 1851 [1] to build a line between Timperley Junction on the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway (MSJAR), to provide a ...
For rail museums, see List of British railway museums. Many of the standard-gauge railways listed, including former branch lines and ex-mainline routes, were closed by British Railways under the Beeching Axe of the 1960s. Most have been restored and operate as heritage lines. A smaller number of lines were formerly industrial or colliery railways.
The Lincolnshire lines of the Great Northern Railway are the railways, past and present, in the English county built or operated by the Great Northern Railway. The Great Northern Railway was authorised in 1846 and was to build from London to York via Newark and also a "Loop Line" via Lincoln .
By 1923 there were some nine major railways operating in England and five in Scotland. In addition there were smaller companies, such as the Cambrian Railways and the many South Wales lines; the Furness and Hull and Barnsley Railways in England; and many much smaller lines. A brief note about each of the larger companies will illustrate how ...
In 1923, the line became part of the Southern Railway and like many other lines around the country it suffered from competition from bus services. [ citation needed ] Passenger services were withdrawn after 1 January 1931, [ 17 ] due to falling numbers of passengers - from 51,000 in 1925 to 31,000 in 1927 and 23,000 in 1929. [ 22 ]
Grand Junction Railway (1833) – The line built by the company was the first trunk railway to be completed in England, and arguably the world's first long-distance railway with steam traction. London and Greenwich Railway (1836) – First steam railway in the capital, the first to be built specifically for passengers, and the first elevated ...