Grand Junction Railway
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The Grand Junction Railway was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed between 1833 and 1846. The line built by the company, which opened in 1837, linked the Liverpool and Manche
"Station, Grand Junction Railway, Vauxhall, Birmingham". Engraving by H. Harris, 1841.
Newton Road station on the Grand Junction Railway, one of the original stations of the line, in 1839. The station was relocated twice and is now defunct.
Joseph Franklin's Curzon Street Station for GJR
Columbine in LNWR livery
The Warrington and Newton Railway was a short early railway linking Warrington to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at Newton, and to coal mining pits at Haydock, nearby. It opened in 1831.
Grand Junction Railway
…running for 82 miles (132 km) from Birmingham through Wolverhampton (via Perry Barr and Bescot), Stafford, Crewe, and Warrington, then via the existing Warrington and Newton Railway to join the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at a triangular junction at Newton Junction. The GJR established its chief engineering works at Crewe…
Warrington Dallam Lane station site behind the three pigeons pub.