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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… The Upwell steam tramway from Wisbech, a light railway of 4 ft. 8 in. gauge, was opened by the G.E.R. in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… All these places have modern chapels and schools. 14 The railway from Peterborough to Sutton Bridge, opened in 1866, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… branch of the former Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (1866), which has a station (Tydd) about 3 miles east …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Sutton Bridge branch of the former M. & G.N. Joint Railway, opened in 1866, 3 has stations in the parish at … G. Woodgate. V.C.H. Cambs. ii, 132-3. The only example of railway crossing railway on the level in the Eastern Counties, where it might …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Lynn through Wisbech and Spalding to Boston. 14 The first railway line to reach Wisbech, that from St. Ives and March, … year the line was prolonged to join the East Anglian Railway at Watlington (now Magdalen Road) and a new station … however, was not actually built until August 1866. 18 Each railway laid down branches to the quays for goods traffic, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… fairly steadily to a maximum of 167,442 in 1847. 28 Railway competition caused a rapid decline to 88,082 in 1854. … was achieved in 1845, and though the opening of the railway shortly afterwards was a severe blow to this trade, …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… 300 ft. within Newton Harcourt and has three locks. The railway from Leicester to Market Harborough runs to the north of the canal. Canal and railway divide the church and manor-house on the south from … village street and around a 'square' between it and the railway. There are few isolated buildings but one large farm …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from wells. Here is a station of the Eastern Counties railway, 12 miles from that of Colchester. In 1846 an act was passed for a railway from Maldon, by Witham, to Braintree; it was opened …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… consists of loam. The Oxford canal and the Trent-Valley railway pass through. The living is a discharged vicarage, … in length, from the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton railway. The market is on Thursday. A market lately …
A History of the County of Oxford
… e.g. Thos. Spring of Lavenham (Suff.), Wm. Stumpe of Malmesbury (Wilts.), and John Winchcombe of Newbury (Berks.); …