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    The Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) was formed in the 1860s and became the second-largest joint railway in Great Britain. The committee, which was often...
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    to Liverpool, which it ultimately did through the medium of the Cheshire Lines Committee network in joint partnership with the Great Northern Railway (GNR)...
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  • constructed to link the Cheshire Lines Committee railway at Aintree to Southport. It operated from 1884 to 1952. The Southport & Cheshire Lines Extension Railway...
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    Manchester Central railway station (category Former Cheshire Lines Committee stations)
    March 2021. The station was built between 1875 and 1880 by the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC), and was officially opened on 1 July 1880. The architect...
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    railways in terms of route mileage; the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC), LMS/LNER joint line in Lancashire and Cheshire, largest in terms of both passenger...
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    access to the Cheshire Lines over the MS&LR from Retford. The Midland Railway later joined the partnership, and the Cheshire Lines Committee continued as...
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  • November 2019. "The Cheshire Lines Act 1867: An Act for incorporating the Cheshire Lines Committee, and for authorizing that Committee to make a new Road;...
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  • North Liverpool Extension Line (category Cheshire Lines Committee Lines)
    line circling the city. The line was built by the Cheshire Lines Committee, branching from the Committee's Liverpool to Manchester line at Hunts Cross in...
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  • Stockport and Woodley Junction Railway (category Cheshire Lines Committee Lines)
    November 2019. "The Cheshire Lines Act 1867: An Act for incorporating the Cheshire Lines Committee, and for authorizing that Committee to make a new Road;...
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    Garston and Liverpool Railway (category Cheshire Lines Committee Lines)
    the Mersey downstream to the North West. It was absorbed by the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) on 5 July 1865, whose Liverpool to Manchester line joined...
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  • Junction. On 15 August 1867, the WCR became a constituent of the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC). Construction continued and the line from Northwich to Helsby...
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    taken over as chairman. In May 1908, Archibald Leitch wrote to the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) – who had a rail depot adjacent to the proposed site for...
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    Manchester South District Railway (category Cheshire Lines Committee Lines)
    Railway and opened in 1880. A section of the line became part of the Cheshire Lines Committee and it was later absorbed into British Rail in 1948. The line was...
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    the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC), a joint committee regulated by the Great Northern Railway (GNR), MSLR and the Midland Railway (MR). This committee became...
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  • Australia Centre for Liveable Cities, a think tank in Singapore Cheshire Lines Committee, a railway in Great Britain City of London Corporation, the local...
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    the River Dee and connect to Chester and its own system over the Cheshire Lines Committee tracks. The WM&CQR was dependent on the mineral workings, and when...
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    Warrington Central to Manchester Piccadilly operates on lines formerly owned by the Cheshire Lines Committee. The northern route runs from Liverpool Lime Street...
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    now one of the most deprived parts of Greater Manchester. The Cheshire Lines Committee opened a railway line through the town in 1873, but it closed in...
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  • Liverpool St James railway station (category Former Cheshire Lines Committee stations)
    Liverpool, England, was a railway station situated on the old Cheshire Lines Committee line from Liverpool Central between Central and Brunswick stations...
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    Warrington Central railway station (category Former Cheshire Lines Committee stations)
    Warrington in Cheshire, England. It is located on the southern route of the Liverpool to Manchester Lines, the former Cheshire Lines Committee route between...
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    Chester Northgate railway station (category Former Cheshire Lines Committee stations)
    is a former railway station in Chester, Cheshire, England, that was a terminus for the Cheshire Lines Committee and Great Central Railway. It was the city...
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  • District Railway. Traffic operated by MetR (passenger); LNER (goods) Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC): operated jointly by LNER/London, Midland and Scottish Railway...
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    Hunts Cross railway station (category Former Cheshire Lines Committee stations)
    terminus of Merseyrail's Northern Line. Originally built by the Cheshire Lines Committee and opened in May 1874, Hunts Cross was the only four-platform...
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  • jointly operated lines was greatly reduced by the grouping but a substantial number survived, including the Cheshire Lines Committee, the Forth Bridge...
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    Greenbank railway station (category Former Cheshire Lines Committee stations)
    Chester. The station was built by the West Cheshire Railway, a constituent of the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) and opened to passengers on 22 June 1870...
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    Chorlton tram stop (category Former Cheshire Lines Committee stations)
    expansion, and opened on 7 July 2011 on a section of the former Cheshire Lines Committee railway. Chorlton-cum-Hardy railway station opened on 1 January...
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    Hale Barns is in documentation from 1616. The Cheshire Midland Railway (later the Cheshire Lines Committee) opened from Altrincham to Knutsford on 22 May...
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    line, and operated by the Cheshire Lines Committee. The CLC was granted permission to run two locomotives on the dock lines from 13 March 1884. The engine...
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    Ashley railway station (category Former Cheshire Lines Committee stations)
    Cheshire Midland Railway (CMR) on 12 May 1862 when the railway opened from Altrincham to Knutsford. The CMR was amalgamated into the Cheshire Lines Committee...
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    Liverpool Central High Level railway station (category Former Cheshire Lines Committee stations)
    England. It opened on 1 March 1874, at the western end of the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) line to Manchester Central. It replaced Brunswick as the...
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