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In 1813, the Ellesmere Canal company merged with the Chester Canal to form the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company under the Ellesmere and Chester Canals Unification Act 1813 (53 Geo. 3. c. lxxx). This business was then merged with the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. ii).
Between 1903 and 1915 it towed barges, and carried passengers, along the Mersey, thereafter it only towed freight. The boat was bought by the Manchester Ship Canal Company in 1921 and used as a tug, however it was also operated as a cruise boat between Manchester and Eastham that included a return train-trip from Ellesmere Port to Manchester. [4]
The National Waterways Museum (NWM) is in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, at the northern end of the Shropshire Union Canal where it meets the Manchester Ship Canal (grid reference). The NWM's collections and archives focus on the Britain's navigable inland waterways, including its rivers and canals , and include canal boats , traditional ...
The Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company was formed in 1846. The Ellesmere and Chester canals had amalgamated in 1813, and the absorption of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal by the Ellesmere and Chester Company was authorised by an Act of Parliament passed in 1845.
Athlone Canal; Ballinasloe Canal; Boyne Navigation; Bridgetown Canal; Broharris Canal; Coalisland Canal (Tyrone Navigation); Cong Canal (Dry Canal); Dukart's Canal; Eglinton Canal; Lacy's Canal
Trevor Basin is a canal basin on the Llangollen Canal, situated near Trevor, Wrexham County Borough, Wales, in between Llangollen and Ruabon. The basin was originally built at the northern end of the central section of the Ellesmere Canal , just 150yds north of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct .
Ellesmere was also the terminus of the Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway branch line to Wrexham (Central), via Overton-on-Dee, Bangor-on-Dee and Marchwiel. This line closed on 10 September 1962. Ellesmere railway station still stands albeit derelict and disused. The nearest active station to Ellesmere is Gobowen for Oswestry which is about 8 miles ...
The Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company was a Company in England, formed in 1846, which managed several canals and railways.It intended to convert a number of canals to railways, but was leased by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) from 1847, and although they built one railway in their own right, the LNWR were keen that they did not build any more.