Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Wigan Branch Railway

From Graces Guide

A 7-mile line that ran from Parkside, just east of Newton on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to Wigan via Golborne. It also had a three mile branch to several local collieries.

It was sanctioned in 1830.[1]

It opened in 1832 and in 1834 it merged with the Preston and Wigan Railway to form the Northern Union Railway


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1924/09/12
  • Encyclopedia of British Railway Companies by Christopher Awdry. Published 1990