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    The Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company was a Company in England, formed in 1846, which managed several canals and railways. It intended to convert...
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    The Shropshire Union Canal, sometimes nicknamed the "Shroppie", is a navigable canal in England. The Llangollen and Montgomery canals are the modern names...
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    the canal was taken over again by the formation of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company. By 1917 the Weston Branch had closed following a breach...
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    Ellesmere and Chester Canal. The following year, the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company was formed from the Ellesmere and Chester company, which...
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    The Shropshire Canal was a tub boat canal built to supply coal, ore and limestone to the industrial region of east Shropshire, England, that adjoined...
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    Montgomery Canal (Welsh: Camlas Trefaldwyn), known colloquially as "The Monty", is a partially restored canal in eastern Powys and northwest Shropshire. The...
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    The Shrewsbury Canal (or Shrewsbury and Newport Canal) was a canal in Shropshire, England. Authorised in 1793, the main line from Trench to Shrewsbury...
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    Montgomeryshire Canal, the Shrewsbury Canal and the Shropshire Canal. The name was changed to the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company in 1846, with...
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    opened in 1835, and merged with the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company in 1845, which became the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company in the following...
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  • Ruabon Brook Tramway (category Industrial railways in Wales)
    referred to as the Shropshire Union Railway, and it appears that ownership remained with the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company, with the LNWR as...
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  • Stafford–Shrewsbury line (category Rail transport in Shropshire)
    The Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company (SUR&CC) constructed and ran one of the few railways in England ever built by a canal company. The line...
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    the London and North Western Railway leased the line between Stafford and Wellington from the Shropshire Union Canal and Railway Company, however the...
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    National Waterways Museum (category Canal museums in England)
    northern end of the Shropshire Union Canal where it meets the Manchester Ship Canal (grid reference SJ406771). The NWM's collections and archives focus on...
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    the Dearne Valley Railway) and at the same time absorbed the North London Railway and the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company, both of which were...
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  • (24 km) Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company 29+1⁄4 miles (47 km) [part of this system was jointly leased with the Great Western Railway (GWR)]...
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    Gnosall's railway station opened on 1 June 1849 and closed on 6 August 1966. The line was built by the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company, which...
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    Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (category Llangollen Canal)
    Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company was formed. In 1846, the canal and the aqueduct became part of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company. But the...
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    section of the MSC Railway, at Trafford Park, closed on 30 April 2009. At Ellesmere Port the canal is joined by the Shropshire Union Canal, at a site now...
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    Manchester Dock, Liverpool (category Canals in England)
    of coal and manufactured goods, and for the import of corn and cotton. With the formation of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company in 1845,...
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  • Thumbnail for Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
    Main Line and the Stourbridge Canal to the Black Country and Birmingham, via the Shropshire Union Canal to Chester and north Wales. The canal essentially...
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    junction of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway with the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company's line from Stafford via Newport. It was opened on 1 June...
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  • George Robert Jebb (category English canal engineers)
    the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company (for whom he designed many of the docks and warehouses of Ellesmere Port) and of the Birmingham Canal Navigations...
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    on the Shropshire Union Canal and other canals in the region. The natural beauty of the county draws people to all areas. In 2024, Shropshire was listed...
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  • George Thorneycroft (category Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress)
    British trade union leader. Born in West Bromwich, Thorneycroft worked on the railways for the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company in his youth...
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    Shropshire Union Canal is located in Cheshire, in the north west of England, and runs between Middlewich, where it joins the Trent and Mersey Canal,...
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    Frankton Junction (category Canals in Shropshire)
    this company was renamed to become the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company, which became part of the London and North Western Railway a few months...
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    Wardle Canal leads to the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal which gives access to Chester, Llangollen and ( heading south on the Shropshire Union)...
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    Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Shropshire)
    of canal building in Shropshire and into Montgomeryshire, he was at the time of his death Chairman of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company. On...
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    Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis (category Shropshire Yeomanry officers)
    1871, aged 63. Powis was chairman of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company and of Welshpool Gas Company, who provided gas-lighting in Welshpool...
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  • 10 mph in a year. Services were established on the Forth and Clyde and on the Shropshire Union Canal flyboats with single horse-pulled, 22-ton loads at 10 mph...
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