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    Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. The population was 48,604 at the 2021 census. Historically in Lancashire,...
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  • The Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway was an early British railway company which opened in stages between 1841 and 1845 between Sheffield...
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    The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) was formed in 1847 when the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway joined with...
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    The station was shared from the beginning with the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway (SA&MR) following an agreement made by the promoters...
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    Engineered by Joseph Locke, the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway linking Manchester and Sheffield opened in 1845. Originally, this...
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  • Ashton, Stalybridge and Liverpool Junction Railway was opened in 1846 to connect the industrial town of Ashton-under-Lyne to the developing railway network...
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    Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1845. The station only serves the Penistone Line currently. The line connects Huddersfield with Sheffield, via Barnsley...
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    of Manchester Piccadilly on both the Rose Hill Marple and Glossop Lines. It was built by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway on its...
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    the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway. Work on the tunnel commenced in 1837. It was designed by the railway engineer Charles Vignoles...
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  • over the River Mersey at Stockport. In 1841 the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, which was to share Store Street, also began running...
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    10 miles (16 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly. It was opened by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1842. It was renamed Mottram...
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    on 30 June 1845 to connect Huddersfield with the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway near Penistone. There was to be a branch to Holmfirth...
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    opened by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1842 and became part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway following...
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    The Ashton Canal is a canal in Greater Manchester, England, linking Manchester with Ashton-under-Lyne. The Ashton leaves the Rochdale Canal at Ducie St...
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    Woodhead line (category Closed railway lines in Greater Manchester)
    Deepcar to Sheffield is currently used for goods. The line opened in 1845. It was built by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway with Joseph...
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    the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway and the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway, the three being renamed the Manchester, Sheffield...
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    Gorton Locomotive Works (category Demolished buildings and structures in Manchester)
    in Manchester, England and was completed in 1848 by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway. The original workshops of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne...
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    served the town of Ashton-under-Lyne, now served only by Ashton Charlestown, north of this former station. The down platform of Ashton Park Parade station...
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    Derbyshire end of the Manchester-Glossop Line, the other being Glossop. It was opened by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1844. The line...
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  • Thumbnail for Oughty Bridge railway station
    Oughty Bridge railway station was a railway station on the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway built to serve the village of Oughtibridge...
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    Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway (SAMR) and opened as the terminus of its Stalybridge branch on 23 December 1845. There was an Ashton, Stalybridge...
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  • and Perth and Aberdeen Junction Railway, one to the Maryport and Carlisle Railway and two for the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway...
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  • Thumbnail for Dinting railway station
    between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield Victoria. An earlier station had been opened as Glossop by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway...
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    Guide Bridge (category Areas of Greater Manchester)
    the Ashton Canal, and later on the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway. These were used for the transportation of raw materials and the...
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    Penistone Line (category Railway lines in Yorkshire and the Humber)
    station was opened with the line; in 1874, a joint L&YR/Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (GCR from 1899) station was built to replace the original...
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    and the A57 road between Manchester and Sheffield. First opened in 1844 as part of the original Woodhead Line by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and...
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  • and Manchester Railway, Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway & Manchester, Sheffield and...
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    Bridgehouses railway station was the terminal station of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway from its opening in 1845 until the opening...
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  • Holland and Gainsborough in the county of Lincolnshire. It amalgamated with the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway and the Sheffield and Lincolnshire...
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    GWR) Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway, 1849 (jointly with Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway) Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny...
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