Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,367 pages of information and 244,505 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.
Frederick Swanwick (1810-1885)
Took part in the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Also surveyed the route of the North Midland Railway
1886 Obituary [1]
. . . the great engineering work of his life - the North Midland Railway, from Derby to Leeds, for which he obtained the Act in 1836, and which was opened on the 30th of June, 1840. . . . [more]
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