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  • Thumbnail for London and North Western Railway
    The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. In the late 19th century, the LNWR was the largest...
    41 KB (4,202 words) - 13:27, 1 May 2024
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    Wortley (/ˈwɜːtli/ WURT-lee) is an inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It begins one mile to the west of the city centre. The appropriate...
    11 KB (1,165 words) - 20:47, 3 June 2024
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    and Leeds Railway and the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). The railway station became owned jointly by the LNWR and the North Eastern Railway...
    39 KB (3,719 words) - 03:51, 26 April 2024
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    Street, near Leeds railway station, has been measured as the most polluted street outside London. A Clean Air Zone, throughout north Leeds and the city centre...
    194 KB (18,058 words) - 16:16, 10 June 2024
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    Lodge and Wortley Railway was constructed by the London and North Western Railway, to provide a duplicate route between Huddersfield and Leeds, leaving...
    6 KB (518 words) - 09:18, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Farnley and Wortley railway station
    Farnley and Wortley railway station served the districts of Farnley and Wortley in Leeds, England from 1848 to 1952 on the Huddersfield line. The station...
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    Leeds city centre and 165 miles (266 km) north north-west of London. It sits in the Middleton Park ward of Leeds City Council and Leeds Central parliamentary...
    44 KB (4,864 words) - 14:18, 28 May 2024
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    station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, via Ardsley, to Wortley Junction on the LB&HJR, near Leeds. Wortley Junction was to be formed as a triangular...
    17 KB (2,516 words) - 16:57, 6 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
    controlled the line from London to Doncaster and allied itself with the North Eastern Railway and the North British Railway so as to offer seamless travel...
    48 KB (6,949 words) - 00:29, 3 January 2024
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    Act 1878 c. c London and North-western Railway (Wortley to Leeds, &c.) Act 1878 c. ci Fraserburgh Harbour Act 1878 c. cii General Police and Improvement...
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    cum Burley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Leeds, Potternewton and Wortley. The borough was located in the West Riding of Yorkshire and gained city status in 1893. When...
    42 KB (2,570 words) - 01:10, 10 May 2024
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    The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool. Over a distance of 127 miles (204 km), crossing...
    24 KB (2,449 words) - 00:53, 18 April 2024
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    Farnley, Armley, Wortley, and Farsley, which is derived from the Anglo-Saxon leah, an open place in the wood. Leeds parish is thought to have developed...
    49 KB (6,077 words) - 17:13, 4 June 2024
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    of north-east Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Leeds City Council Ward of Chapel Allerton. It is approximately one mile north of Leeds...
    36 KB (3,841 words) - 12:42, 19 May 2024
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    has a main-line railway line running along its western edge along which all services between Leeds and London King's Cross and London St Pancras run;...
    37 KB (4,339 words) - 15:27, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Heckmondwike Spen railway station
    Leeds New Line which ran from Farnley & Wortley to Bradley. The station opened to traffic in October 1900 after the London and North Western Railway (LNWR)...
    9 KB (892 words) - 21:22, 29 August 2023
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    City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. It is situated between Leeds and Wakefield. It is in the Rothwell ward of Leeds City Council...
    22 KB (2,178 words) - 02:45, 5 May 2024
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    opening in 1899 of its London Extension. On 1 January 1923, the company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway. On assuming its new title...
    44 KB (3,383 words) - 21:28, 6 May 2024
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    Armley (category Places in Leeds)
    by West Yorkshire Police revealed Armley and New Wortley had the second highest crime rate in Leeds after Leeds city centre. First attested in the Domesday...
    18 KB (1,844 words) - 13:08, 26 May 2024
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    Stock". The London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) Encyclopedia. 2007. Retrieved 17 January 2007. "Woodhead Railway and its Electrification". Wortley Top Forge...
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