Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY

YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY, a railway system in Yorkshire; comprising a main line from York to Normanton and Knottingley, branches to Scarborongh and Whitby, a line from Hull to Leeds, and several short branches. It is aggregately 263 miles long; and it was amalgamated with other systems, in 1854, to constitute the Northeastern.


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

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Feature Description: "a railway system"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC

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