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    The North Mersey Branch (NMB) is a railway line that was constructed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to connect its mainline (the former Liverpool...
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    the left-hand branch continuing to descend to ground level and into North Docks Goods station where there were connections onto the Mersey Docks and Harbour...
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  • to Hooton and Chester section and the Ellesmere Port branch). The centre of all these lines, Mersey Railway, opened and ran originally from Liverpool James...
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    The Trent and Mersey Canal is a 93+1⁄2-mile (150 km) canal in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire in north-central England. It is a "narrow canal"...
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  • North Mersey station opened on 27 August 1866 as the terminus of the North Mersey Branch of the L&YR. The station was for goods only and initially there...
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    It closed during the 1960s. Called the Canada Dock Branch, a second route, the North Mersey Branch could still be opened.[citation needed] The bus station...
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    services increased to one hundred and nineteen. On 1 June 1906 the North Mersey Branch was electrified and services began to run from Exchange to Aintree...
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    station was a station located on the North Mersey Branch, north Liverpool, Merseyside, England. The North Mersey Branch line through the station site was...
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    The Queensway Tunnel is a road tunnel under the River Mersey, in the north west of England, between Liverpool and Birkenhead. Locally, it is often referred...
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    between the Mersey and Parr, three branches were built to nearby collieries: the South Branch to Boardman's Stone Bridge, Parr; the Middle Branch to Gerrard's...
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    Liverpool Extension Line, located behind Aintree railway station. The North Mersey Branch also ran through, close to the station, and had Aintree Racecourse...
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  • Lancashire. The Post Office bought land on the site of sidings of the North Mersey Branch railway. It also built a large, purpose built office and data processing...
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  • to a new station beside LOR's Seaforth Sands station and from the North Mersey Branch route to Aintree. From 2 July 1905, LOR trains began to run through...
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    subsequently as far as Ormskirk by 1913. The western end of the North Mersey Branch from Gladstone Dock & Bootle (which had opened in 1866 and joined...
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    Skelmersdale"Railfuture; Retrieved 10 June 2016 "Millions to be spent on Mersey rail network". Liverpool Daily Post. Trinity Mirror. 3 April 2007. Retrieved...
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    The Mersey Railway was the passenger railway connecting the communities of Liverpool, Birkenhead, England. It is currently a part of the Merseyrail network...
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    Caldon Canal is a branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal which opened in 1779. It runs 18 miles (29 km) from Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, to Froghall, Staffordshire...
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    shed. It was the last overhead station before the junction with the North Mersey Branch. The weight gauge meant that while LOR trains could operate on the...
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    1893. The line connected with Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's North Mersey Branch. It was never nationalised, and closed on 30 December 1956 due to...
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    from here to Liverpool Exchange was under joint ownership) North Mersey Branch and the North Liverpool Extension Line at Aintree Manchester and Southport...
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  • of the busy Merseyrail's Northern Line from Southport, Kirkby, Ormskirk branches to Hunts Cross. The station is located in a deep cutting between two tunnels...
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  • via the Breeze Hill tunnel. In later versions of the scheme the North Mersey Branch from Aintree to Bootle was substituted. The latter is still intact...
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    with a spur to North Mersey Goods. A second short spur, the Linacre Gas Works Branch, which was added later, ran from the Langton Branch Junction. Fazakerley...
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  • railway station was a station located on the North Mersey Branch in Litherland, Lancashire. The North Mersey Branch line through the station site was opened...
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  • Lancashire, England, located on the North Mersey Branch. Situated west of Rimrose Road (now the A565) within the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Estate, it...
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    Kingsway Tunnel (or Wallasey Tunnel) is a toll road tunnel under the River Mersey between Liverpool and Wallasey. The 1.5 mi (2.4 km) tunnel carries the A59...
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    Crown Street railway station (category Former London and North Western Railway stations)
    In 1832 Thomas Legh arranged for his own coal-yard to be laid out to the north of Crown Street, the railway allowed access provided it was only used as...
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    Easingwold: Pendragon Publishing. Welbourn, Nigel (2008). Liverpool and the Mersey (Lost Lines). Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN 978-0-7110-3190-6. The station...
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    Junction), the Middlewich Branch (at Barbridge Junction), which itself connects via the Wardle Canal with the Trent and Mersey Canal, and the River Dee...
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    the north-east of the station is Fazakerley Junction, 30 miles 72 chains (49.7 km) from Manchester Victoria, which is where the North Mersey Branch once...
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