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 244,499 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Blackburn Railway

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In March 1847, the Blackburn, Darwen and Bolton Railway and the Blackburn, Clitheroe and North Western Junction Railway agreed to amalgamate, becoming the Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe and West Yorkshire Railway; the necessary Act received Royal Assent on 9 July 1847. The name was shortened to the Blackburn Railway by a further Act of 24 July 1851.


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