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    from Shrewsbury and formed part of a main line trunk route, under the title the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway. It opened in 1846 from Chester to Ruabon...
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    The ShrewsburyChester line (Welsh: Llinell Amwythig-Caer) is a railway line between Chester and Shrewsbury in England, with the line passing through...
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  • Thumbnail for Shrewsbury railway station
    closed. Shrewsbury railway station was originally built in October 1848 for the county's first railway, the Shrewsbury to Chester Line. The architect...
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    August 1848, Chester was a joint station used by the Chester and Holyhead, Grand Junction, the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway and the Chester and Birkenhead...
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  • The Chester and Holyhead Railway was an early railway company conceived to improve transmission of Government dispatches between London and Ireland, as...
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  • Thumbnail for Wrexham General railway station
    There have been two railway station buildings on the site. The first was the original was built by the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway in Jacobean style...
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    Shrewsbury and Chester Railway (S&CR), and Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway. The Shrewsbury and Chester Railway had emerged from...
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  • The Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway was a railway company which was previously owned by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR), built to connect Crewe...
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  • Thumbnail for Gobowen railway station
    Gobowen railway station is a railway station on the Shrewsbury to Chester Line of the former Great Western Railway's London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside...
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  • List of works by Thomas Mainwaring Penson (category Lists of buildings and structures by architect)
    including stations for the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway. He was appointed as county surveyor of Cheshire and moved to Chester, Cheshire. Here he laid out...
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    Chirk railway station (Welsh: Y Waun) serves the town of Chirk, Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The station is on the Shrewsbury to Chester Line 21 miles...
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  • The Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway was an English railway company that built a standard gauge line between those places. It opened its main line in 1853...
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  • the canal. When the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway was opened in 1846 – 1848 the transport opportunities were transformed, and railway branch lines were...
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  • Rhos railway station was a station in Rhosllannerchrugog, Wrexham, Wales on the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway. It was located in a remote spot almost...
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    Cefn Viaduct, built by Thomas Brassey in 1848 to carry the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway across the valley of the River Dee. The village has two primary...
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  • Thumbnail for Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway
    The Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway was authorised in 1846. It agreed to joint construction with others of the costly Wolverhampton to Birmingham section...
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  • Thumbnail for North Wales Main Line
    North Western Railway. Between Chester and Saltney Junction, the line was, from the start, used by trains of the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway, later to...
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  • Thumbnail for Wellington railway station (Shropshire)
    London and North Western Railway – it was not until both they and the neighbouring Shrewsbury and Chester Railway became part the Great Western Railway in...
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    between the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway (later the GWR Birkenhead-Paddington line) and the old main road between Wrexham and Chester. The first coal...
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  • Thumbnail for List of constituents of the Great Western Railway
    Birmingham Railway (1 September 1854) Shrewsbury and Chester Railway (1 September 1854) Shrewsbury, Oswestry and Chester Junction Railway (1846) North...
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  • Thumbnail for Henry Robertson
    Mineral Railway Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Bala and Festiniog Railway Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Vale of Llangollen...
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  • for the Chester and Holyhead Railway, collapses under a Shrewsbury and Chester Railway train with five fatalities. May 31 – The first railway connection...
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  • Thumbnail for Wolverhampton–Shrewsbury line
    Wolverhampton–Shrewsbury line is the railway line from Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury via Wellington; it was originally built by the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway...
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  • Thumbnail for Welsh Marches line
    Welsh Marches line (category Railway lines in Wales)
    known historically as the North and West Route, is the railway line running from Newport in south-east Wales to Shrewsbury in the West Midlands region of...
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  • Dee at Chester, England, designed by Robert Stephenson for the Chester and Holyhead Railway, collapses under a Shrewsbury and Chester Railway train with...
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    on which the town originally developed. The castle, directly above Shrewsbury railway station, is a Grade I listed building. A castle was ordered on the...
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    of the Montgomery Canal, the Shrewsbury Canal and leased the Shropshire Canal. Although plans to convert them to railways had been dropped by 1849, the...
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  • Thumbnail for Great Western Railway
    the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway and the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway both amalgamated with the GWR, but these lines were standard gauge, and the...
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  • Thumbnail for Ellesmere Canal
    Cheshire, and Shrewsbury. However, only certain sections were completed; these were eventually incorporated into the Chester Canal, Montgomery Canal and Shropshire...
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  • GWR Swindon Class (category Bristol and Exeter Railway locomotives)
    absorbed the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway. Gloucester (1866–1873) Gloucester was reached over the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway from Swindon...
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