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Description: | "The London-road Station forms the termini, and was erected for the joint use of the Manchester and Birmingham (now absorbed in the London and North-Western system) and the Manchester, Aston-under-Lyne, and Sheffield (now the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railways), and was opened on the 4th of June, 1840, the first-named line being then complete as far as Stockport. The accomodation thus provided having become inadequate to the growing requirements of the public, a new station, on a much more extensive scale, was erected, which forms the subject of our illustration, and is now used jointly by the London and North-Western, the Great Western, the Cheshire Lines, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, the Midland, and the Great Northern Companies."
Text by James Croston. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Publisher: | J. E. Cornish | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Brothers, Alfred | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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