MAKE A MEME View Large Image Beeston Railway Station in 1840.jpg Beeston's First Railway Station - 1840 The first station at Beeston was built by the Midland Counties Railway Company to serve its newly constructed line between Nottingham and Derby Physical work on the ...
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Keywords: Beeston Railway Station in 1840.jpg Beeston's First Railway Station - 1840 The first station at Beeston was built by the Midland Counties Railway Company to serve its newly constructed line between Nottingham and Derby Physical work on the railway was in progress as early as September 1837 and the completed line was officially opened on Thursday May 29th May 1839 In length the line was 19 miles 3 chains and 17 yards - which being more familiarly put is nineteen miles and eighty-three yards A very authoritative account of the The Midland Counties Railway is contained in a 1989 book titled The Midland Counties Railway by the Derby Railway History Research Group ISBN 0 901461 11 3 Persons more interested in a photographic record might wish to study the informative compilation by Mark Higginson of the Midland Railway Trust titled The Midland Counties Railway 1839 - 1989 A Pictorial Survey ISBN 1 872194 00 1 The above picture is from The Midland Counties Railway Companion of 1840 - a book that is now in the public domain and on-line on Google MCR 007 http //www flickr com/people/13938105 N07 LENTON Otherwise David SANDS from Nr Nottingham England UK England PD-old Beeston railway station 1840 in rail transport in the United Kingdom 1840 in Nottinghamshire
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