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The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS) is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, [1] although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801.
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The site as shown on an old OS Map; the extremes of the map show the original northern wharf, and the southern weigh-house. A diagram of High Peak Junction today. The advertisement placed for the construction of the branch line from the Midland Railway Junction to the canal-side site. A view inside the old workshop, showing the forge.
Around 1840, the North Midland Railway, the Midland Counties Railway and the Birmingham and Derby Railway set up workshops to the rear of Derby station. [2] [page needed] Although the Midland Counties had an engine house at Nottingham, the main facilities for all three lines appear to have been, initially at least, those at Derby.
The original workshops of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway were in Newton near Hyde in Cheshire but were inconveniently situated, cramped and makeshift. In 1845 the railway asked their locomotive superintendent, Richard Peacock , to find a more suitable site for a locomotive and carriage and wagon works.
The Railway Workshops of Britain 1823-1986. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 0-333-39431-3. Larkin, Edgar J. (2009) [1992]. An Illustrated History of British Railways' Workshops : Locomotive, Carriage, and Wagon Building and Maintenance, from 1825 to the Present Day. Heathfield Railway Publications. ISBN 9781906974022. OCLC 59982877.
The main workshops were in Doncaster, with others at Darlington, Inverurie and Stratford, London. [3] [4] The company also owned the most westerly track and stations in Great Britain, in the form of the West Highland Railway to Arisaig and Mallaig, previously owned by the North British Railway.
In January 1910, locomotive building was likewise transferred to the new workshops at Eastleigh from Nine Elms in London. Among the locomotives produced by the LSWR under Drummond at Eastleigh, were the S14 0-4-0 and M7 0-4-4 tank engines, the P14 and T14 4-6-0 , and D15 4-4-0 , classes.