The history of the North British Railway until 1855 traces the founding and construction of the railway company. It built and opened its line between...

The North British Railway was a British railway company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was established in 1844, with the intention of linking with English...

The Siege of Sevastopol (at the time called in English the Siege of Sebastopol) lasted from October 1854 until September 1855, during the Crimean War...

This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor...

Primrose Hill was a railway station in Chalk Farm, in the London Borough of Camden, opened by the North London Railway as Hampstead Road in 1855. It was named...

Railway Idea in British North America (1997) Den Otten (1997); Bill Waiser, Saskatchewan: A New History (2005) p. 63 M. L. Bladen, "Construction of Railways...

related to 1855. 1855 (MDCCCLV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar...

In 1855, Alexander II began his reign as Tsar of Russia and presided over a period of political and social reform, notably the emancipation of serfs in...

a federation of former British colonies. The human history of Australia, however, commences with the arrival of the first ancestors of Aboriginal Australians...

stations. By 1855 time signals from Greenwich could be sent through wires alongside the railway lines across the length and breadth of Britain. This technology...

constituent parts of the emerging main-line railway companies, often immediately after being built. Some continued as independent companies until the 1923 Grouping;...

Liverpool in 1850. The company was acquired by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1855. The line is still open. Liverpool was thriving in the 1840's and...

4 July 1855 by the Peebles Railway. The station was situated on the north side of March Street. A goods shed was adjacent to the station. The goods yard...

section of the West Coast Main Line railway. The general history of the company is described in the article Caledonian Railway and detail of the development...

Southern Railways and later British Rail, was named "Westward Ho!" after the town. It is also known for the Royal North Devon Golf Club, the oldest golf...

railway, a concept that, according to Lewis, did not recur until around 1800.: 15  The Diolkos was reportedly used until at least the middle of the 1st...

Picton and Welbury in the North Eastern Region British Railways". The Railways Archive. Retrieved 22 December 2013. "Report on the Collision that occurred...

Pakistan began in 1855 during the British Raj, when several railway companies began laying track and operating in present-day Pakistan. The country's rail...

in 1855 by the North British Railway. It was known as Glenesk Junction in some timetables. It was located as a junction on the Waverley Line with the Dalkeith...

The North Eastern Railway (NER) was an English railway company. It was incorporated in 1854 by the combination of several existing railway companies. Later...

to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria (who, in 1876, was proclaimed Empress of India). It lasted until 1947, when the British Raj was partitioned...

in 1855. In 1852, the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTS) was authorised to operate a ferry but only for its own passengers. In 1862, the northbound...

British Empire's Crimean War continues, British troops being withdrawn. Albert Salter surveys the North Shore of Lake Huron, following the signing of...

The Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) was one of the two smallest of the five major Scottish railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping, operating...

on 1 June 1855 as a 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge line, it was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway in 1862. In 1869 the railway was converted...

used until 1927 but remained monarch until his death in 1936) Historiography of the British Empire Historiography of the United Kingdom History of Ireland...

The Londonderry & Coleraine Railway is a railway line between the cities of Derry and Coleraine in County Londonderry, built by the Londonderry & Coleraine...

Sierra Leone - Railway Wonders of the World". railwaywondersoftheworld.com. Retrieved 2023-10-16. Churchill's Greatest Gamble - How Britain Went All or Nothing...

The economic history of the United Kingdom relates the economic development in the British state from the absorption of Wales into the Kingdom of England...

time was inducted into the North America Railway Hall of Fame in the category "National: Technical Innovations." The Dominion of Newfoundland, whose capital...