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The Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway (N&MDR), which ran southwards to Market Drayton from a junction with the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) at Nantwich, was opened on 20 October 1863. [2] [3] [4] The new line was 10 miles 65 chains (17.4 km) long. [5] Four years later, on 16 October 1867, the Wellington and Drayton Railway (W&DR ...
John Lewis (1855–1926), football referee and a founder of Blackburn Rovers F.C., was born at Market Drayton; Arthur Morris (born Market Drayton 1882–1945), professional footballer, played for Shrewsbury Town and Birmingham City. Harold Emerton Edge (born Market Drayton 1892 – 1944) an English cricketer, a right-handed batsman who bowled ...
June 19, 1985 (420 Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin campus: Madison: Georgian revival-style building designed by Paul Cret and Warren Laird, built in 1912, where Elmer McCollum discovered vitamins A and B, Harry Steenbock found that vitamin D could be concentrated by irradiating food, Conrad Elvehjem isolated niacin, and Karl Link isolated the anticoagulant dicoumarol.
The line was doubled during 1866–67, to match the Wellington and Drayton Railway which opened in October 1867, thus providing a link for the GWR between the Midlands and the Northwest. The North Staffordshire Railway line from Stoke to Market Drayton opened in January 1870, joining the line at Silverdale Junction, just north of Market Drayton.
The station site at Newcastle-Under-Lyme has been landscaped, and Market Drayton's has been demolished and built on by both a Morrisons store and an industrial complex. In 2009 the platforms at Silverdale were cleared of vegetation and the derelict track from the former station site to the tunnel portal was lifted but the track remains intact ...
The line ran from Drayton Junction (52.7031°N 2.5317°W), on the Shrewsbury and Wellington Joint Line just west of Wellington station, to an end-on junction with the Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway at Market Drayton (52.9093°N 2.4895°W), a distance of some 16 miles. Construction started in 1864, and the line was opened in 1867.
The station also served Woore Racecourse which opened at Pipe Gate in 1885. [4] The section between Silverdale and Pipe Gate was reduced to single track in October 1934. [3] Dwindling passenger numbers after World War II meant that there were only two trains daily from Stoke to Market Drayton, and all passenger services ceased on 7 May 1956. [3]
Market Drayton railway station; Market Drayton Town F.C. P. Pell Wall Hall; S. St Mary's Church, Market Drayton This page was last edited on 18 November 2018, at ...