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 244,498 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.

Northampton and Banbury Junction Railway

From Graces Guide

of Leadenhall Street, London

The company had a station beside the London and North Western Railway at Blisworth and ran west to Cockley Brake and then used the lines of the Buckinghamshire Railway. [1]

1863 The company was incorporated.

For a short time it was known as the Midland Counties and South Wales Railway but reverted to its former name in 1870.

1889 Engineers are Charles Liddell and Edward Richards.[2]

1908 The line is 15 miles in length. [3]

In 1910 it was bought by the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway.


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Sources of Information

  1. Encyclopedia of British Railway Companies by Christopher Awdry. Published 1990
  2. 1889 Bradshaw's Railway Manual
  3. The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908