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1844 Railway Act http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RA1844.htm Required each company to run one passenger train daily at the cheap rate of one penny a mile (1.6 km) and provide carriage seats that offered protection from bad weather. Includes details. Aberdeen http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITaberdeen.htm Seaport on the northeast coast of Scotland. Site of the Aberdeen Railway which opened in April, 1850. Includes brief history and excerpt from a work by Daniel Defoe. Birmingham http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITbirmingham.htm Became one of the most important trade centers in Britain. One of the major cities of the London to Birmingham line completed in 1838. Birmingham & Derby http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAderby.htm Opened in 1839 but it was not a great financial success, Merged with other lines to form the Midland Railway. Birmingham Station http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAbirminghamST.htm Built in 1838 in the classical style with an Ionic portico. Departure point for north as well as the southbound trains. Includes illustration. Blisworth Cutting http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAblisworth.htm Near Northampton. Engineering project involving excavation of rock and clay. Estimated over a million cubic yards of material was dug, quarried or blasted out. Bolton and Leigh http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAbolton.htm Line built by George Stephenson and opened in 1828. Box Tunnel http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAbox.htm Located on the London to Bristol line. Includes details of construction and a lithograph. Bradford http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITbradford.htm Center for woolen and textile trades. Site of Leeds and Bradford Railway, which opened in 1846. Brighton http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITbrighton.htm Popular seaside resort in Britain, served by the London to Brighton Railway. Includes brief history, painting and selections from the works of various writers. Brighton Station http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAbrightonST.htm Part of the London and Brighton Railway. Building was finished in September, 1841. Includes photo. Bristol http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITbristol.htm Was a major wool-exporting port. Station for several railway lines including the Great Western Railway, Bristol and Exeter Railway, and the Bristol and Gloucester Railway. Includes brief history. Bristol and Exeter http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAbristol.htm Completed in 1844. Includes brief history. Caledonian Railway http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAcaledonian.htm Established in 1845 and went to Glasgow via Edinburgh. Includes brief history and illustration. Canterbury and Whitstable http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAcanterbury.htm Railway line opened in 1830. Includes brief history and illustration. Cardiff http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITcardiff.htm Coastal town in Wales and a station on the Taff Vale Railway. Includes brief history. Charles Vignoles http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAvignoles.htm Surveyor and engineer. Worked on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, St Helens and Runcorn Railway, Dublin and Kingstown, and the Midland Counties lines. Includes brief biography. (1793-1875) Chat Moss http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAchat.htm Peat bog which was part of the railway route between Liverpool and Manchester. Includes brief history of engineering project. Chichester http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITchichester.htm In 1844 the London and Brighton Railway Company built a line to Chichester. By 1847 Chichester was also linked by rail to Portsmouth and Southampton. Crewe http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITcrewe.htm Originally, a small hamlet with only a wayside station beside a turnpike road. Became the junction of three lines. Includes brief summary of its railways. Daniel Gooch http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAgooch.htm Superintendent of the Great Western Railway and was responsible for the Severn Tunnel project. Includes brief biography. (1816-1889) David Octavius Hill http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAhill.htm Artist who produced a set of engravings of the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway in 1831 and photographed other railway scenes. Includes brief biography. (1802-1870) Derby http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITderby.htm Located on the River Derwent. Became the headquarters of the Midland Railway in the 19th century. Includes brief details of industries and history. Dundee http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITdundee.htm Seaport in Scotland on the Firth of Tay. Location of he Dundee and Newryle line, the Dundee and Arbroath, and a line to Aberdeen. Includes notes about major industries and population figures. Edinburgh http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITedinburgh.htm Capital city of Scotland. Location of the Edinburgh and Leith, and the Edinburgh and Glasgow lines. Includes history and selections from the works of several writers.
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