WREXHAM, MOLD & CONNAH`S QUAY RAILWAY INCLUDING THE BUCKLEY RAILWAY

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'a lavish provision of maps supplement the text . . .This is a major work showing new light on an interesting railway' RCHS

Contents:

• Abbreviations
• Principal Acts of Parliament
• Buckley Railway
• Wrexham, Mold & Connah's Quay Railway
• Note on Photographs
• Notes on Messrs. Beyer, Peacock & Co. Ltd.
• Notes on Nomenclature
• Index to Tramroad Drawings
• Index to Railway Drawings
• Introducing the Wrexham, Mold & Connah's Quay Railway
• Background to the WMCQR: River-Tramroad-Railway
• THE TRAMROAD ERA
• Introduction
• The Tramroads
• Latchcraft (or Latchcroft)
• Mancot (or Mancott) Old Rail Way
• Sandycroft Wooden Way (or Sandycroft Rail Road I)
• Mancot New Rail Way
• Aston Tramroad
• Wepre Iron Road
• Sandycroft Rail Road (II)
• Soughton Tramroad
• Hancock's Tramway, Buckley
• Before the Wrexham, Mold & Connah's Quay Railway
• The North Wales Mineral Railway
• Wanted - AnotherRailway
• THE BUCKLEY RAILWAY
• In the Beginning
• From Beginning to End
• THE WREXHAM, MOLD & CONNAH'S QUAY RAILWAY
• Historical Chronology, 1861-1905
• The Route
• The Main Line (Wrexham Central-Hawarden Bridge)
• The Brymbo Branch
• Industries served by the Brymbo Branch
• Brymbo Branch and Broughton & Plas Power Colliery Co. Ltd
• Ffrwd Branch
• Vron Branch
• Llay Hall Branch
• TRAIN SERVICES AND TIMETABLES
• LOCOMOTIVES
• Gorton Records: January 1903 (Great Central Railway)
• Locomotive Epilogue
• Other Locomotives
• Takeover by the Great Central Railway (6th January, 1905)
• Livery
• Contractor's Locomotive
• CARRIAGES AND WAGONS
• SIGNALLING
• Signalling 1866
• Doubling of the main line - 1885
• Doubling of the main line - 1888
• Signalling by 1905
• PERMANENT WAY
• STATIONS
• SIR S.M. GLYNNE'S RAILWAY - The Hawarden Castle Colliery Co.
• ASTON HALL COLLIERY RAILWAY
• APPENDIX ONE - Route Distance Between Stations
• APPENDIX TWO - Railway-linked Industries and map references
• APPENDIX THREE - Industrially-owned locomotives in area served by WMCQR up to 1905
• APPENDIX FOUR – Post WMCQR Chronology
• APPENDIX FIVE - WMCQR Employees - 1898
• APPENDIX SIX - Locomotive Water Supplies and Cranes
• APPENDIX SEVEN - John Summers & Sons Ltd.
• APPENDIX EIGHT- Shipbuilders on the South Bank of the Dee
• APPENDIX NINE - Tickets
• Principal documentary sources
• Periodicals sources
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Index

Continent: Europe
Country: UK
Area: UK Cheshire

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