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The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume Four Manchester to Leeds
Stanley C. Jenkins
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Description for The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume Four Manchester to Leeds
Paperback. This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the LMS line between Manchester and Leeds has changed and developed over the last century. Series: The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Series. Num Pages: 128 pages, 200. BIC Classification: 1DBK; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 246 x 13. Weight in Grams: 426.
The Manchester & Leeds Railway was sanctioned by Parliament in 1836 as a railway commencing at Manchester and terminating at Normanton, from where trains would reach Leeds via the North Midland Railway. Although Leeds is only 35 miles from Manchester, the hilly nature of the surrounding terrain meant that the company engineers adopted a circuitous route through Rochdale, Todmorden, Hebden Bridge and the sinuous and steep-sided Calder Valley. The `Calder Valley' line was opened between Manchester and Littleborough on 3 July 1839, and further sections were brought into use on 5 October 1840 and 3 January 1841. The railway was ... Read more
The Manchester & Leeds Railway was sanctioned by Parliament in 1836 as a railway commencing at Manchester and terminating at Normanton, from where trains would reach Leeds via the North Midland Railway. Although Leeds is only 35 miles from Manchester, the hilly nature of the surrounding terrain meant that the company engineers adopted a circuitous route through Rochdale, Todmorden, Hebden Bridge and the sinuous and steep-sided Calder Valley. The `Calder Valley' line was opened between Manchester and Littleborough on 3 July 1839, and further sections were brought into use on 5 October 1840 and 3 January 1841. The railway was ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445643885
SKU
V9781445643885
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Ref
99-99
About Stanley C. Jenkins
Stanley C. Jenkins, who was educated at Witney Grammar School, the University of Lancaster and the University of Leicester, has written over 20 books and some 750 articles on local, transport and regional history. Having worked as an English Language teacher at Oxford Air Training School for several years, he returned to Leicester University to retrain as a museum curator ... Read more
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