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	London and Birmingham Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The London and Birmingham Railway (LandBR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom from 1833 until 1846, at which date it became a constituent part of the London and North Western Railway.
		The 112 mile (180km) long railway line that the company built between London and Birmingham was, when it opened in 1838, one of the first intercity railway lines in the world, and the first railway line to be built into London.
		The idea of building a railway line from London to Birmingham had been mooted as early as 1823 when a company was formed by John Rennie to build such a line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_and_Birmingham_Railway (731 words)

	London and North Western Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) was a railway company of the United Kingdom which existed between 1846 and 1922.
		It was created by the merger of three railway companies - the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, and is effectively an ancestor of today's West Coast Main Line.
		The LNWR became a constituent of the London, Midland and Scottish (LMS) railway when the railways of Great Britain were merged in the grouping of 1923.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_and_North_Western_Railway (298 words)

	Railways provide easier travel for the working classes
		In fact, the Great Western and London and South Western Railways are the only lines upon which third-class passengers are conveyed exclusively by heavy luggage-trains, and the Directors of the latter Railway have signified their intention of discontinuing the practice immediately and providing accommodation for third-class passengers in the regular passenger trains.
		Upon the London and Birmingham Railway, third-class passengers are conveyed by a special train along with cattle horses and empty return waggons, but not with heavy luggage trains.
		The Manchester and Leeds Railway passes through or near 15 towns, between which there were formerly several carts, waggons and vans passing every hour of the day and night, with manufacturing and market produce, of which the humbler people could avail themselves at a trifling expense of money and a considerable sacrifice of time.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /prod/dialspace/town/terrace/adw03/peel/peel/railways/travel.htm (582 words)

	Learn more about Toll road in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The turnpike trusts were initially set up along the thirteen main roads from London, a process that lasted until 1750.
		The work of Telford on the Holyhead Road in the 1820s reduced the journey time of the London mail coach from 45 hours to just 27 hours, the best mail coach speeds rose from 5-6 mph to 9-10 mph.
		The rise of railway transport largely halted the improving schemes of the turnpike trusts.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /t/to/toll_road.html (1381 words)

	Where The Lines Meet - History of Bletchley Railway Station from 1825 and beyond
		Once formed the London and Birmingham railway was under control of Robert Stephenson and the powerful secretaries, Richard Creed and C.R.Moorsom.
		The railways had changed the face of North Bucks with Bletchley changing from being a miserable dump to a well known railway junction, Wolverton from a village of 400, to a bustling new town of nearly 3000 people all in one generation.
		In 1859 a third line from Bletchley to London was made, and the second bore of the Watford tunnel in 1874 enabled two fast and two slow lines to Willesden by 1876 and to London by 1879.
	www.livingarchive.org.uk /wherelinesmeet/joe.html (751 words)

	The Railways in the West Midlands
		The London and Birmingham Railway, the Grand Junction Railway and the Derby Junction Railway all had their own agenda and interests at heart.
		The London and Birmingham Railway company and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway were followed by the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway making a total of four railway companies now operating into central Birmingham.
		The rivalry was such that competitor railway companies placed obstacles in the way of an integrated network and caused much controversy at the time.
	www.birminghamuk.com /railways.htm (551 words)

	quick and quirky facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Birmingham's first canal was opened in 1769 and linked Birmingham to Wednesbury.
		Curzon Street Station, Digbeth, was the terminus of the London and Birmingham railway, with a station built by Philip Hardwick in 1838, who designed the original Euston Station too.
		Birmingham's basketball team are the "Bullets" and there are three professional soccer teams; the "Blues", the "Villans" and the "Baggies".
	www.birmingham.gov.uk /GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=700&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=181 (512 words)

	The Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway
		According to the librarian at the National Railway Museum in York, no drawings of these locomotives have survived, but it would be fair to assume that they were similar to other Stephenson locomotives of the period.
		The Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway remained independent until the 10th.May,1844, when it combined with the North Midland and the Midland Counties railways to form the Midland Railway.
		In 1921 all the railways in the country were reduced to four groups and the Midland Railway was absorbed into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (L.M.S.).
	www.agecarey.com /Railway/birmingham_and_derby_junction_ra.asp (1002 words)

	BLPES Archives: Information on Railways
		An address to the members of the International Railway Congress, London 1895, together with a reprint of his Railway Reform Leaflets 1-17, in favour of nationalising the railways 1883-1884.
		Printed railway rates book filled in with the rates for coal transport, mainly from the collieries in the Midlands and the North of England, to stations in the South.
		Timetables of the Great Central Railway, London Brighton and South Coast Railway, Midland Railway, North Eastern Railway and the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, issued during the miner's strike, 1912.
	library-2.lse.ac.uk /archives/transport/railway.html (310 words)

	Birmingham’s Railways
		London and Birmingham Railway, Grand Junction Railway and Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway – were racing to establish themselves in Birmingham.
		London and Birmingham Railway was aiming at a terminus in Curzon Street.
		The geography of Birmingham made it less costly to approach the town along the river valleys to the north-east, creating that extraordinary congestion of lines in the area now known as Heartlands.
	www.virtualbrum.co.uk /history/railway1.htm (753 words)

	London & North Western Railway: pre-Ramsbottom
		This great railway is treated in three files: the first herein covers the general history and those great engineers (Bury, McConnell and Francis Trevithick) who came before Ramsbottom and Webb (who demand a separate file for their activities) and finally the period under three lesser mortals: Whale and Bowen Cooke and Beames.
		The North London Railway, which was worked by the LNWR between 1908 and 1923, is introduced as a sub-section.
		London and Birmingham Railway and LNWR Southern Division locomotives from 1837 to the renumbering of April 1856 (Jack 265-70)
	www.steamindex.com /locotype/lnwr.htm (6669 words)

	London railway stations
		London Bridge is the oldest station in London: it was first opened in 1836.
		The remainder of the station is the terminus for routes from Sussex and South London.
		London's Marylebone Terminal, the newest of major London terminals which was opened in 1899 by Great Central Railway (GCR) when its London extension was complete.
	www.2747.com /2747/world/station/london.htm (423 words)

	London and North Western Railway
		The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) was formed in 1846 by the merging of the London and Birmingham Railway, the Grand Junction Railway and the Manchester And Birmingham Railway.
		It was known as the "Premier Line" because it contained the former line of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first passenger railway.
		The LNWR ceased to exist when it was amalgamated with other railway companies in the "groupings" of 1923 to form the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
	www.btinternet.com /~bpsheridan/LondonAndNorthWesternRailway.html (119 words)

	Science Museum \| The life and works of John Cooke Bourne \| The London & Birmingham Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It was the writer John Britton who first persuaded the London and Birmingham Railway Company to publish a set of tinted lithographic prints by Bourne.
		A wash drawing of the building of Euston Arch during the construction of the London and Birmingham Railway.
		Other reprints soon followed and work on the railway began to be accepted by some of those who had previously been wary of any social or technological change.
	www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /on-line/jcook/page2.asp (470 words)

	DigiLondon - London tourist and visitor destinations
		In the context of the South Bank Centre it is the smallest of a set of three venues, the other two being the Royal Festival Hall, a large symphony hall, and the QEH, which is used for orchestral, chamber and contemporary amplified music.
		It was the contribution toward the Festival of Britain by London County Council, and was officially opened on 3 May 1951.
		The Roundhouse is a former shed for the London and Birmingham Railway at Chalk Farm (near Camden Town), in London, England that became a well known arts venue, starting in the 1960s.
	digilondon.com /index.php?catid=31 (925 words)

	Grand Junction Railway
		Railway to use as a basis for a route to Ireland via Holyhead.
		the London and Birmingham Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
		Birmingham Railway due to the latter's reliance on, and distrust of the Grand
	www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk /articles/railways/GJR.htm (898 words)

	Victorian Railways
		The Liverpool and Manchester railway was opened on 15th September 1830, and it was 31 miles long.
		The London and Birmingham Railway Company took Stephenson's advice and in 1833 Robert Stephenson was appointed chief engineer.
		It was in 1846 that the following companies, London and Birmingham, Grand Junction Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway companies amalgamated, and formed the London and North Western Railway.
	www.ourwardfamily.com /victorian_railways.htm (1322 words)

	London and Birmingham
		Birmingham had seen rapid economic growth in the 1820s and by 1830 was sending one thousand tons of goods every week by canal to London.
		It was decided to approach George Stephenson, the chief engineer of the Liverpool and Manchester line, about the possibility of building a railway between Birmingham and London.
		As the Grand Junction Railway had been finished in July 1837, the four major cities in England, London, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool were now linked together.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RAbirmingham.htm (334 words)

	Greenleas Rail History
		The Dowager Queen Adelaide first used the Railway in 1842 and the London and Birmingham railway built a four wheeled carriage for her.
		On one of her earlier trips on the London and Birmingham line the company provided a four wheeled carriage which was centrally heated.
		The London and Birmingham Railway merged on the 1st January 1846 with the Grand Junction Railway and the Birmingham and Manchester to become the London and North Western Railway (LNWR), creating 247 miles of railway.
	clutch.open.ac.uk /schools/greenleas-rail01/LondonBirm4.html (373 words)

	Birmingham
		Birmingham was a small town specializing in metal work during the Middle Ages.
		In 1833 the London and Birmingham Railway Company appointed Robert Stephenson as chief engineer of the project that would dramatically reduce the cost of transporting these goods.
		As the Grand Junction Railway had been finished in July 1837, the four major cities in England, London, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool were now linked together by rail.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /ITbirmingham.htm (476 words)

	Making the Modern World - Constructing the railway system
		The London terminus of the London and Southampton Railway at Nine Elms, 1838.
		The railway was built to connect coal mines in a mountainous area with the canal, which was about 16 miles away.
		The need for railways for transporting goods in India was recognised in the early 1840s, but a decade was to pass before India's first railway opened.
	www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk /stories/the_age_of_the_engineer/01.ST.04/?scene=7&tv=true (1326 words)

	Old Maps and Prints of London reproduced by the Village Atlas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The original is undated, but as the London and Birmingham Railway, opened to traffic in 1839, is the only line shown, we can date this map very closely.
		It covers an area from Edgware in the north to Wimbledon in the south, and from Brentford in the west to Barking in the east—i.e., approximately equivalent to modern Greater London, and rather smaller than the are covered by the Village London Atlas, to which it provides a useful adjunct.
		This and LON8-12 are from Shepherd’s mammoth London an its Environs in the Nineteenth Century.
	www.village-atlas.com /engwales/london_1.html (825 words)

	Philip Hardwick (1792-1870)
		Between 1834-39 he worked for the London and Birmingham Railway Company for whom he built the terminus stations and the Euston and Victoria hotels.
		The two families had often lived closely together in nearby streets in the area of Holborn, and marrying into another family of architects was one of the traditions of the London architectural profession.
		In 1822 their son Philip Charles Hardwick was born in London.
	www.victorianweb.org /art/architecture/hardwick/bioph.html (679 words)

	Local Heritage Initiative - Bletchley's Railway Heritage
		The town is situated at a railway junction between the London and Birmingham line and the Oxford to Cambridge line.
		For more than 150 years many of the town's inhabitants have owed their livelihood to the railway, many of them as railway engineers, drivers or firemen, and there are many retired and working people and their families with stories to tell.
		It will also involve the restoration of a now overgrown and dilapidated plaque attached to the Denbigh Hall Railway Bridge that commemorates the time when the London to Birmingham railway terminated at Denbigh Hall and passengers had to be transported by stage-coach to destinations further north.
	www.lhi.org.uk /projects_directory/projects_by_region/south_east/buckinghamshire/bletchleys_railway_heritage (202 words)

	The Life and Works of John Cooke Bourne - Imag
		A drawing of the construction of the London & Birmingham Railway at Park Street, London.
		This is an example of one of Bourne’s first sketches depicting navvies working on the railways, such as putting up scaffolding and bricklaying.
		A wash drawing of the building of Euston Arch during the construction of the London & Birmingham Railway.
	www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /collections/exhiblets/bourne/gallery.asp (233 words)

	London And Birmingham Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The London And Birmingham Railway existed from 1833 to 1846.
		On 20th July 1837 the first stage of the railway was opened.
		The London And Birmingham Railway ceased to exist in 1846 when it merged with the Grand Junction Railway and the Manchester And Birmingham Railway to form the London And North Western Railway.
	www.btinternet.com /~bpsheridan/LondonAndBirminghamRailway1.html (170 words)

	Railway catalogue \| Sanders of Oxford
		Crossing the perceived obstacle to a railway from Liverpool to Manchester.
		Companion, “the contrast between old and new times is no where more evident between London and Birmingham.” In December 1843, the two days of the Smithfield Show brought 1085 Oxen and 1420 sheep over this viaduct.
		Railway, London, Bourne and D. Bogue, 1846 (Abbey Life 399) A pastoral scene of haymaking.
	www.sandersofoxford.com /gallery/railway/railway2.htm (6314 words)

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