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  Liverpool and Manchester Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (LandMR) was the world's first intercity passenger railway in which all the trains were timetabled and operated for most of the distance solely by steam locomotives.
Horse-drawn traffic could use the railway upon payment of a toll.) The LMR was primarily built to provide faster transport of raw materials and finished goods between the port of Liverpool and mills in Manchester in north-west England.
The experience on the Stockton and Darlington Railway was well-publicised, and a section of the Hetton colliery railway had been converted to cable haulage.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway   (2250 words)

  
 A. C. Greene Library: B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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BOLTON, H. Bolton and the Spanish Borderlands, Edited and with an Introduction by John Francis Bannon.
The TandP Railway was crossed on a fragile-appearing white frame bridge with a fl streak where the locomotive stack had belched out smoke for lo, those many years.
www.dsloan.com /catalogues/Greene/b.htm   (6077 words)

  
 The Dreaming: The Neil Gaiman Page - Academia
Cult hero alert: Neil Gaiman, creator of the Sandman comic book series who's now a novelist and screenwriter, comes to town Oct. 16 for a free afternoon Q and A session at San Jose State University and a paid-admission reading/book signing on campus that night.
The author's adult novel American Gods, the tale of a young drifter who becomes involved with what appears to be a magical war, was a critical and popular success that helped to bring Gaiman to a mainstream audience.
As a prose stylist, Gaiman is known for writing clearly and strongly, using memorable characters and striking images to build his dreamlike worlds.
www.holycow.com /dreaming/academia   (11395 words)

  
 Hedgerow Books - Specialists in Boxing and Football books
A History of the Isle of Man Railway and the Former Manx Northern Railway, Together with Notes on Other Steam Railways in the Island.
ESSERY R.J. The London and North Eastern Railway.
WILLIAMSON, K. Illustrated in woodcut by C. The Slough Swilly Railway.
www.hedgerowbooks.com /onlinebookshop/user/html/titles/t.html   (2035 words)

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