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The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (LMR) 57 Lion is an early 0-4-2 steam locomotive, which had a top speed of 40 mph (64 km/h) and could pull up to 200 tons (203 tonnes). [2] One of a pair designed for hauling freight (the other, number 58, was called Tiger ), Lion was built by Todd, Kitson & Laird of Leeds in 1838.
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway [1] [2] [3] (L&MR) was the first inter-city railway in the world. [4] [i] It opened on 15 September 1830 between the Lancashire towns of Liverpool and Manchester in England. [4]
Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST on the Longmoor Military Railway in 1968 LMR 600 Gordon at Longmoor in 1949. The Longmoor Military Railway (LMR) was a British military railway in Hampshire that was built by the Royal Engineers from 1903 to train soldiers on railway construction and operations. The railway ceased operation on 31 October 1969.
The earliest recorded 0-4-2 locomotives were three goods engines built by Robert Stephenson and Company for the Stanhope and Tyne Railway in 1834. [1]LMR 57 Lion. The first locomotive built in Germany in 1838, the Saxonia, was also an 0-4-2.
Station totem design prior to 1965. The London Midland Region (LMR) was one of the six regions created on the formation of the nationalised British Railways (BR), and initially consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) lines in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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A map of England, Wales and Scotland showing the approximate boundaries of each NLC "zone", as described in the accompanying table.. The National Location Code (NLC) is a four-digit number allocated to every railway station and ticket issuing point in Great Britain for use with the ticketing system on the British railway network.
The LNWR was formed in 1846 with the merger of the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway (M&BR). The GJR and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (LMR) initially had their workshops at Edge Hill. The London and Birmingham workshops were at Wolverton.