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Widnes Dock Junction and the flat crossing were causing problems of congestion and the LNWR dealt with this by building a deviation line of just under 1.5 miles (2 km) to the north of the original west–east line, crossing the line leading north to St Helens by a bridge.
Widnes Dock with filled-in lock chamber (2007) Map of Spike Island (1875) showing the location of Widnes Dock. Widnes Dock was the first rail-to-ship facility in the world. [1] It was built in 1833 between the end of the Sankey Canal and the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway in Widnes. [2]
Remnants of the old downtown of Edgerton, including the ca. 1860 Bentley Dry Goods store, [117] the 1885 Commercial Hotel, [118] the mid-1880s Red Front Grocery Store, [119] the late-1880s Strucker and Mays Grocery store, [120] the 1890 Tobacco Exchange Bank, [121] the 1916 Spike Brothers Livery, and the ca. 1916 Joe Leary Cigar Store-Badger ...
This article is a list of important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are cultural terms generally meaning the same thing no matter which part of the world's railway traditions originated the term of art.
Pixton, Bob (1996), The Archive Photographs Series Widnes and St Helens Railways, The Chalford Publishing Company, ISBN 978-0-7524-0751-7; Smith, Paul; Turner, Keith (2012), Railway Atlas Then and Now, Ian Allan Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7110-3695-6; Suggitt, Gordon (2004). Lost Railways of Merseyside and Greater Manchester. Newbury: Countryside ...
Its eastern terminus is in Downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [1] US 18, however, runs concurrent with other U.S. Highways from its western terminus to Mule Creek Junction, Wyoming. US 18 is one of the original U.S. Highways of 1926. The US 18 designation was originally proposed for a road in Michigan from Grand Haven east to Detroit.
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[6]: 18 In 1874 the Wisconsin Valley Railroad built a rail line north from Centralia (Wisconsin Rapids) to Wausau, crossing the Wisconsin Central. [7]: 78–79 At the intersection of the two lines, cars could be switched and a community began to grow. In 1874 a post office was established there, with the name Junction. [7]: 312