Great Central Railway

The MS&LR company was formed in 1847 by a merger of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway; the Sheffield & Lincolnshire Junction Railway: the Great Grimsby & Sheffield Junction Railway: and the Grimsby Docks Company. This grouping gave the Railway an East-West main line linking Manchester and giving it access to Lincolnshire and the North Sea. Its initial route ran from Manchester London Road, across the Pennines via the Woodhead Pass to Sheffield Victoria station, Doncaster and onwards to L ...

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Great Central Railway, Great Central Railway - History, Great Central Railway - The London extension, Great Central Railway - Traffic on the London extension, Great Central Railway - Rundown and closure, Great Central Railway - What still remains, Great Central Railway - Geography

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This list of British heritage and private railways is intended as a list of railways (railroads) in Britain. For rail museums, see List of British railway museums. More links at foot of page. Many of the standard gauge railways were originally lines closed by British Railways under the Beeching cuts in the 1960s, and reopened as private and / or heritage lines. List of British heritage and private railways - England. List of British heritage and private railways - Standard Gauge ...

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• List of British heritage and private railways - England
• List of British heritage and private railways - Standard Gauge
• List of British heritage and private railways - Narrow Gauge Railways
• List of British heritage and private railways - Miniature railways in England
• List of British heritage and private railways - Tramways
• List of British heritage and private railways - Scotland
• List of British heritage and private railways - Standard Gauge
• List of British heritage and private railways - Narrow Gauge
• List of British heritage and private railways - Wales
• List of British heritage and private railways - Standard Gauge
• List of British heritage and private railways - Narrow Gauge
• List of British heritage and private railways - Miniature Railways
• List of British heritage and private railways - Northern Ireland
• List of British heritage and private railways - Narrow Gauge Railway
• List of British heritage and private railways - Isle of Man
• List of British heritage and private railways - Channel Islands
• List of British heritage and private railways - Alderney
• List of British heritage and private railways - Jersey

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The Beeching Axe was an informal name for the British government's attempt in the 1960s to control the spiralling cost of running the British railway system by closing what it considered to be "little-used" and unprofitable railway lines. Beeching Axe - Background. The Beeching Axe was a reaction to the failed railway modernisation plan of the 1950s, which spent huge amounts of money on buying new equipment such as new diesel and electric locomotives without first examining the railways' role, what was actu ...

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• Beeching Axe - Background
• Beeching Axe - Rail closures by year
• Beeching Axe - Beeching II
• Beeching Axe - Changing attitudes and policies
• Beeching Axe - Overview
• Beeching Axe - Re-openings

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1909 in rail transport - January events. January 26 - The Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield Railroad, a predecessor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, is formed from the merger of four smaller railroads in Pennsylvania.[1] January 29 - The final spike is driven in the construction of the Virginian Railway at Glen Lyn, Virginia. 1909 in rail transport - March events. March 7 The Winona Interurban ...

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in order from north to south Note: Between Watford Junction and Queen's Park, the Bakerloo line used surface lines and stations belonging to the London and North Western Railway (subsequently British Rail and now Silverlink). These stations were and mostly still are jointly operated by the Underground and the mainline rail company. Bakerloo Line - Surface section. Watford Junction – First Served: April 16, 1917. Last Served: September 24, 1982. Watford High Street – ...

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Bakerloo Line, Bakerloo Line - History, Bakerloo Line - Trains, Bakerloo Line - Map, Bakerloo Line - Stations, Bakerloo Line - Surface section, Bakerloo Line - Tunnelled section, Bakerloo Line - Stanmore Branch

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The Beeching Axe was a reaction to the failed railway modernisation plan of the 1950s, which spent huge amounts of money on buying new equipment such as new diesel and electric locomotives without first examining the railways' role, what was actually going to be needed, or the implications of changing old-fashioned working practices and tackling the problem of chronic overmanning. The result was the railway s ...

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Beeching Axe, Beeching Axe - Background, Beeching Axe - Rail closures by year, Beeching Axe - Beeching II, Beeching Axe - Changing attitudes and policies, Beeching Axe - Overview, Beeching Axe - Re-openings

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By the standards of the English Midlands, Northamptonshire is an upland county. It includes the watershed between the Severn and The Wash. Several important rivers have their sources in the north west of the county, these include the River Nene (to The Wash) and the "Warwickshire Avon" (to the Severn). In the 1820s it was boasted that "not a single brook, however insignificant, flows into it from any other district". The highest point in the county is neverthe ...

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Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire - Geography, Northamptonshire - Places, Northamptonshire - Peterborough, Northamptonshire - History, Northamptonshire - Politics, Northamptonshire - National representation, Northamptonshire - Local government, Northamptonshire - Transport, Northamptonshire - Roads, Northamptonshire - Rivers and Canals, Northamptonshire - Railways, Northamptonshire - Media, Northamptonshire - Sport, Northamptonshire - Places of interest, Northamptonshire - Annual events, Northamptonshire - Colleges

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List of early British railway companies - Cambrian - Isle of Wight. Cambrian Railways incorporated between 1864 and 1904 Oswestry and Newtown Railway 30 miles: incorporated 6 June 1855; opened 1860-1 Llanidloes and Newtown Railway 12.25 miles: 4 August 1853; 1859. Until 1861 this section of the line was completely isolated Newtown and Machynlleth Railway 23 miles: 27 July 1857; 1863 Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway 18 miles: 1 August 1861; 1863-4

The A6 Trunk Road passes through the town on its way along the Soar Valley, south to Leicester or north to Kegworth and Derby. Junction 23 of the M1 lies to the West of the town and forms the clearest division between Loughborough and Shepshed. The A60 leaves the town to the west before turning north towards Nottingham. The Midland Main Line runs frequent rail services through the town from London St Pancras to Sheffield and Nottingham. The Great Central Railway also once ran through the to ...

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Loughborough, Loughborough - Transport and Connections, Loughborough - Education, Loughborough - Employers, Loughborough - Shopping, Loughborough - Recreation, Loughborough - Twin towns

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British Rail Class 37 - Direct Rail Services. British Rail Class 37 - English Welsh and Scottish Railway. EWS currently operates a small fleet of nine Class 37/4 locomotives. These are hired to Arriva Trains Wales for use on the Rhymney Line (3 locomotives Monday-Saturday) or to First ScotRail for use on the Caledonian Sleeper over the West Highland Line (1 locomotive per day). 37408 was written of in Wales while working a Arriva Trains Wales service. 37411 has been repainted in BR green.37425 was repainted in BR large logo blue. This locomoti ...

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British Rail Class 37, British Rail Class 37 - Description, British Rail Class 37 - Current Operations, British Rail Class 37 - Direct Rail Services, British Rail Class 37 - English Welsh and Scottish Railway, British Rail Class 37 - Arriva Trains Wales, British Rail Class 37 - Spot-Hire Companies, British Rail Class 37 - Preservation, British Rail Class 37 - Fleet Details

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The original line from Birmingham to London was built by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in the 1850s, to connect Oxford to Birmingham and Wolverhampton. For many years, trains from Birmingham to London went the long way round via Oxford and then along the Great Western Main Line to London Paddington. In an attempt to compete with the LNWR's London-Birmingham route, a shortcut to London was constructed in the 1900s from Aynho Junction just south of Banbury to Princes Risborough via Bicester. This new line was constructed jointly b ...

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Chiltern Main Line, Chiltern Main Line - Passenger Services, Chiltern Main Line - History, Chiltern Main Line - Future

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The second station lasted until the 1880s, when a new line from Rugby to Northampton was built, and it was replaced by the current structure which opened in 1885. Today's station consists of one large island platform with tracks on both sides and bay platforms at each end (only one of these bay platforms, at the London end, remaining in regular passenger use). The platform is accessed fro ...

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Rugby railway station, Rugby railway station - History, Rugby railway station - The present station, Rugby railway station - Rugby Central Station, Rugby railway station - Services, Rugby railway station - Reference

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South West Trains - Desiro fleet. The introduction of Desiro rolling stock built by Siemens was to replace the old slam-door trains which were coming to the end of their useful lives, and had been posing health and safety problems. The introduction was delayed because of the additional power needs of this type of stock: Network Rail spent £1 billion upgrading the power supply to take account of this. The new trains are generally proving popular with passengers, with on-board information systems and full a ...

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South West Trains, South West Trains - SWT since privatisation, South West Trains - Train services, South West Trains - Main lines, South West Trains - Suburban services, South West Trains - Other services, South West Trains - Megatrain, South West Trains - Rolling stock notes, South West Trains - Desiro fleet, South West Trains - Juniper Fleet, South West Trains - Other notes, South West Trains - Rolling stock details, South West Trains - Current fleet, South West Trains - Past fleet, South West Trains - Preserved SWT trains, South West Trains - External link

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The mainline station has only four platforms (although this is due to be increased to six) making it one of the smallest of the railway terminals in London, and apart from Waterloo International it is the newest. Train services into the station are run by Chiltern Railways which serves routes to Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Bicester, Banbury, Leamington Spa, Stratford-upon-Avon, Birmingham (Snow Hill), and Kidderminster Marylebone station - History. The station was opened in 1899 and was the terminus of the Great Central Railway's new London extension main line, which was ...

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Marylebone station, Marylebone station - National Rail, Marylebone station - History, Marylebone station - Trivia, Marylebone station - London Underground, Marylebone station - History

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History of rail transport in Great Britain - Early rails. As early as 1676 railed roads were in use in Northumberland to ease the conveyance of coal from the mines to the banks of the river at Newcastle-on-Tyne. These were simply straight and parallel rails of timber on which carts with rollers drawn by horses enabled several wagons to be moved simultaneously. Called tramroads (the early coal wagons were called drams), these primitive rails were superseded in 1793 when the then superintendent of the ...

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History of rail transport in Great Britain, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Railed roads and tramways 1676 to 1825, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Early rails, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Early public railways, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Stockton and Darlington Railway, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The development of the railways 1825 to 1923, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Liverpool and Manchester Railway, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Further Progress, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Railway Mania, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Government involvement, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The Battle of the Gauges, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Early successes, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Major railway companies in Great Britain, History of rail transport in Great Britain - English railways, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Scottish railways, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The Grouping, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Following the grouping: 1923-1947, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The grouping period, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Nationalisation, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The railways in the post-war world, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The modernisation plan, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The Beeching era, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The 1970s, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The 1980s, History of rail transport in Great Britain - The 1990s, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Privatisation, History of rail transport in Great Britain - Contemporary developments

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The services of the region had been part of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) until the railways were nationalised in 1948. Of all the "Big Four" pre-nationalisation railway companies, the LNER was most in need of significant investment. In the immediate post-war period there was a need to rebuild the destroyed stations in London and along the busy East Coast Mainline and former Great Central Railway. Additionally, the LNER had begun a suburban electrification programme w ...

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Eastern Region of British Railways, Eastern Region of British Railways - History, Eastern Region of British Railways - Network, Eastern Region of British Railways - Electrification

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The London Underground service at Harrow-on-the-Hill is provided by the Metropolitan line and it is the last station before the line divides into a branch to Uxbridge and a branch which further splits to serve Amersham and Watford. The next adjacent station south east (and towords London) is Northwick Park, north west (and towards Amersham) is North Harrow and to the west (and towards Uxbridge) is West Harrow. However, the Metropolitan line operates a complex pattern of trains and not all trains stop at all stations. Many "fast" and "semi-fast" ser ...

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Harrow-on-the-Hill station, Harrow-on-the-Hill station - London Underground, Harrow-on-the-Hill station - National Rail, Harrow-on-the-Hill station - Station Buildings

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List of constituents of the London and North Eastern Railway - Independently operated lines. Colne Valley and Halstead Railway 19 miles (30km) East and West Yorkshire Union Railway 9.5 miles (15km) Mid-Suffolk Light Railway 19.5 miles (31km) List of constituents of the London and North Eastern Railway - Leased or worked railways. Many of these "railways" existed only in name; there were included on the list at the time of the Railways Act in order ...

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List of constituents of the London and North Eastern Railway, List of constituents of the London and North Eastern Railway - Main companies, List of constituents of the London and North Eastern Railway - Subsidiary companies, List of constituents of the London and North Eastern Railway - Independently operated lines, List of constituents of the London and North Eastern Railway - Leased or worked railways, List of constituents of the London and North Eastern Railway - Independently Operated Joint Companies, List of constituents of the London and North Eastern Railway - Joint railways, List of constituents of the London and North Eastern Railway - Now totally LNER, List of constituents of the London and North Eastern Railway - Joint with LMSR, List of constituents of the London and North Eastern Railway - Joint with GWR

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1899 in rail transport - February events. February 9 - Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway purchases the Minneapolis, New Ulm and Southern. 1899 in rail transport - March events. March 15 - Marylebone Station, the new London terminus, of the Great Central Railway is opened. 1899 in rail transport - June events. June 18 - Canadian Pacific Railway inaugurates the Imperial Limited passenger train etween Montreal ...

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1899 in rail transport, 1899 in rail transport - Events, 1899 in rail transport - February events, 1899 in rail transport - March events, 1899 in rail transport - June events, 1899 in rail transport - July events, 1899 in rail transport - August events, 1899 in rail transport - November events, 1899 in rail transport - Unknown date events, 1899 in rail transport - Births, 1899 in rail transport - Unknown date births, 1899 in rail transport - Deaths, 1899 in rail transport - September deaths

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List of British heritage and private railways - Standard Gauge. Appleby Frodingham Railway Astley Green Colliery Museum, Lancashire Avon Valley Railway Barrow Hill Engine Shed - preserved Roundhouse Museum in Derbyshire. Battlefield Line, Shackerstone, Leicestershire Bideford & Instow Railway Birmingham Railway Museum, Tyseley Bluebell Railway East Sussex and West Sussex Bodmin & Wenford Railway, Cornwall Bowes Railway< ...

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List of British heritage and private railways, List of British heritage and private railways - England, List of British heritage and private railways - Standard Gauge, List of British heritage and private railways - Narrow Gauge Railways, List of British heritage and private railways - Miniature railways in England, List of British heritage and private railways - Tramways, List of British heritage and private railways - Scotland, List of British heritage and private railways - Standard Gauge, List of British heritage and private railways - Narrow Gauge, List of British heritage and private railways - Wales, List of British heritage and private railways - Standard Gauge, List of British heritage and private railways - Narrow Gauge, List of British heritage and private railways - Miniature Railways, List of British heritage and private railways - Northern Ireland, List of British heritage and private railways - Narrow Gauge Railway, List of British heritage and private railways - Isle of Man, List of British heritage and private railways - Channel Islands, List of British heritage and private railways - Alderney, List of British heritage and private railways - Jersey

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