Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LIVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY

LIVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY, a railway in Lancashire; from Liverpool, east-north-eastward, past Upholland, Wigan, and Bolton, to Bury. It was authorized in 1845; was amalgamated with the Manchester and Leeds in 1846; went, with that railway, into the system of the Lancashire and Yorkshire in 1847; and was opened in 1848. It is 28¾ miles long; and it joins, at its ends and in its progress, with varions other lines.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC
Place: Liverpool

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