Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHREWSBURY AND POTTERIES JUNCTION RAILWAY

SHREWSBURY AND POTTERIES JUNCTION RAILWAY, an assemblage of railway lines in Salop; from Market-Drayton on the Wellington and Drayton, and connecting with the Shrewsbury and Crewe, the Welshpool, the Severn Valley, and the Shrewsbury and Hereford. It is aggregately 23½ miles long; and was authorized in 1865.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "an assemblage of railway lines"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Shropshire AncC
Place: Shrewsbury

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