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A History of the County of Shropshire
… tow path, made c. 1800. 97 River use declined after the railway came in 1862, though lime was still carried by barge … 19th century. 1 The Severn Valley line of the West Midland Railway (later G.W.R.), which ran along the base of the Edge, … Co. used it, as an alternative to the Tarbatch Dingle railway, to carry iron to a Severn wharf. At that time, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… road from Ipswich to Colchester, and has a station on the railway between those towns, nearly equidistant from the … from east to west by the North Shields and Newcastle railway, and turnpike-road; it extends eight miles and a half … celebrated Dr. Charles Hutton, and George Stephenson, the railway engineer, the former of whom, when a boy, worked in …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… it is separated by the River Wey. It is served by Bentley railway station on the Alton branch of the London & South Western Railway. The ground slopes from the north of the parish, …
Survey of London
… 18823. Albert Brassey, M.P., son of Thomas Brassey, the railway contractor, 18831918: his wid., 191840. No. 30 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from the Basingstoke canal. The Great Western railway enters the county a little to the east of Maidenhead, … taken place by the formation of the London and Greenwich railway, which commences near the foot of London bridge, and … the line. The Bricklayers' Arms branch of the Croydon railway is almost exclusively within the parish; it was …
A History of the County of Hertford
… 1,109 16 s. 11 d. consols, 1,300 London and South-Western Railway 3 per cent. preference stock, 141 East Indian Railway Annuity Class B and 2,167 Great Eastern Railway 4 per cent. debenture stock, producing an annual …
A History of the County of Hertford
… accounts and surveys of the castle and manor. 4 There is a railway station at Berkhampstead on the main line of the London and North Western Railway, opened 1 January, 1838. A new station was built in … the principal gate of the castle, but now the way to the railway station, is Castle Street, formerly Castle Lane. …
Old and New London
… and Castle"Cherry GardenSt. James's ChurchTraffic on the Railway near BermondseyMessrs. Peek, Frean, and Co.'s Biscuit … the principal luggage and goods dept of the South-Eastern Railway. In the station itself, from an architectural point … notice. The site was purchased by the South-Eastern Railway Company in 1843, and the lines of railway laid across …
Old and New London
… Street"The "Isle of Ducks"Tunnels under London Bridge Railway StationSnow's FieldsA Colony of … and there bestride the streets of Bermondsey, bearing up a railway, with its engines puffing like so many overworked … Street, which bounds the north side of the approach to the railway station, we find ourselves in Tooley Street, whose …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and the town will soon have the further advantage of a railway to Edinburgh, in continuation of the projected railway along the east coast hence to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. …