A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
NORTHEASTERN railway, an extensive railway system in the counties of York, Durham, Northumberland, and Cumberland. It was constituted in 1854, by amalgamation of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick, the York and North Midland, the Leeds Northern, and the Malton and Driffield; it includes, by amalgamations, since 1854, the Hartlepool railway and docks, the West Hartlepool, the North Yorkshire and Cleveland, the Bedale and Leyburn, the Dearness Valley, the Newcastle and Carlisle, the Stockton and Darlington, and the Cleveland; and it comprehends, in works constructed by its own company, under numerous acts from 1857 till1864, the Lanchester Valley, the Nidd Valley, the Harrogate branches, the Castleton and Grosmont, the Otley and Ilkley, the Market-Weighton and Beverley, the Blaydon and Conside, the Team Valley, the Newcastle Quay branch, the Hull and Doncaster, the Tynedock, the Church-Fenton and Micklefield, the Methley, the York and Doncaster, the Leeds Extension, several short branches in Durhamshire, eight short lines in the neighbourhood of Pelaw, six short lines in connexion with the Cleveland, and a half-share in the Leeds newcentral station. The aggregate productive mileage in Dec. 1867 was 1, 242; and the total share capital at 30 June 1867 was £27, 841, 607.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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