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moor, Birkhamslead, Tring, Leighton Buzzard, Roade, Ellsworth, 

 Weedon, Crick, Rugby, Brandon, Coventry, Hampton to Birmingham, 

 at all of which places are principal stations, to receive passengers and 

 merchandise. 



THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY 



Continues the line of the London and Birmingham, by Wolverhampton, 

 Stafford, Whitmore, Crave, Hartford, and Warrington, where, at the 

 Newton bridge station, it unites itself with the Manchester and 

 Liverpool lines of railway. The Grand Junction obtained their Act of 

 Parliament in May, 1833, and in the following year they had an 

 amended Act, which enabled them to purchase the Warrington and 

 Newton railroad, and thus complete their original intention. The plan, 

 estimates, &cc., were laid down by Mr. Stephenson, but the railway was 

 finished under the superintendence of Mr. Locke s and it was opened 

 without any display (with well directed taste, as the recollection of the 

 fatal accident to Mr. Huskisson on the same line of road, was yet green 

 in the memory), on the 4th of July, 1837. The total expense being 

 1 512,150.0: 4d. "On this railway," says Mr. Freeling, "thereare 100 

 excavations and embankments. In the formation of which, 5,500,000 

 cubic yards of earth and stone have been cut and removed, three 

 millions of which have been employed in the embankments; the 

 remainder has been for the most part laid out for spoil. In the line 

 there are about 109,000 distinct rails, which rest upon 436,000 chains, 

 which are supported by four hundred and thirty-six thousand blocks of 

 stone. The railway passes under 100 bridges, two aqueducts, and 

 through two tunnels; it passes over 50 bridges and 5 viaducts; the 

 latter are stupendous erections. In the formation of the line, upwards 

 of 41,440,0001bs. of iron have been used for rails and chains, and 

 upwards of 656,940 cubic yards of stone for blocks to support them." 

 This account (immense as it is) is said to be rather under than over 

 stated. 



The next railway, which is calculated to be of the most beneficial 

 advantage to the commerce of this country, is 



THE GREAT WESTERN. 

 The London Terminus of this great and important undertaking is 



