MINUTES OF EVIDENCE ON THE WELLINGTON, MARKET DRAYTON, AND NEWCASTLE JUNCTION RAILWAY BILL From May 8 to 16, 1862 The Right Hon.Lord Stanley in the Chair 1862 ( A Very Rare Shropshire & Staffordshire Primary Source History Document )

The House of Commons

Verlag: Published for The House of Commons, London, 1861

Beschreibung

Published for the House of Commons in 1862 this is minutes of evidence from the enquiry into the building of The Wellington and Drayton Railway in Shropshire, with the proposed extensions to Newcastle, the report runs to 494 pages and is packed with fascinating interviews with local businesses and land owners to establish the need and costs for the proposed railway This is an extremely rare work, no copies located in any of the main institutional library collections, nor the Shropshire Archives. The book is bound in a recent cloth binding titled in gilt to the spine, 9 inches tall, approx., 494 pages.T binding is in very good condition, internally, title page a little marked with an old ownership name, some underlining to a few pages, occasional mild handling marks, page edges untrimmed else in good general condition The Wellington and Drayton Railway was incorporated on 7 August 1862, and in November of that year deposited plans for a line connecting Wellington to Market Drayton, together with extensions northwards towards Manchester, to join the LNWR near Minshull Vernon, the Cheshire Midland Railway near Knutsford, the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway and the Manchester and Bolton Railway at Salford, to provide the Great Western Railway with access to Manchester. Additionally there were plans for a branch from Market Drayton to Newcastle-under-Lyme, but these were abandoned due to opposition from the LNWR and North Staffordshire Railway. Circumstances changed rapidly, and alliance with the Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway together with running powers from Nantwich to Crewe and onwards to Manchester through amalgamation of the Great Western Railway with the West Midland Railway meant that the northern extensions were no longer needed by the GWR for access to Manchester. The line ran from Drayton Junction on the Shrewsbury and Wellington Joint Railway just west of Wellington station, to an end-on junction with the Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway at Market Drayton, a distance of some 16 miles. Construction started in 1864, and the line was opened in 1867. The Consulting Engineer was John Fowler EXTREMELY SCARCCE, ONE OF THE FEW SURVIVING COPIES OF THIS IMPORTANT PIECE OF LOCAL SHROPSHIRE RAILWAY HISTORY. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002478

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Titel: MINUTES OF EVIDENCE ON THE WELLINGTON, ...

Verlag: Published for The House of Commons, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1861

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition