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The Manchester Road Race is a 4.737 mile (7.623 km) footrace held annually on Thanksgiving Day in Manchester, Connecticut. Race proceeds are donated each year to Muscular Dystrophy research and about 18 other local charities.
After two years of proposals and counter-proposals, what emerged was a scheme to run from a junction from the GJR at Chebsey, with branches to Macclesfield and Crewe, into Manchester Store Street, which received an act of Parliament, the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Act 1837 (7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. lxix) authorising it in 1837. There were ...
Birmingham New Street is Birmingham's principal railway station and one of the principal stations of the UK rail network. [1] The station is managed by Network Rail [2] and its main entrance is located on Stephenson Street. New Street is the main gateway for most people arriving in the city and serves most of the city rail services, providing ...
London and Birmingham Railway; Manchester and Birmingham Railway; Birmingham and Gloucester Railway; Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway; Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway; Birmingham West Suburban Railway; Atlantic and Birmingham Railway; Birmingham and Bristol Railway; Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway; Birmingham and Oxford Junction ...
Station Year opened Metropolitan borough [7] Zone [8] Served by [9] Station users 2019-20 [6] Station users 2021-22 [6] Station users 2022-23 [6] Acocks Green: 1852 [10] Birmingham: 3 West Midlands Trains: 0.551 million 0.272 million 0.305 million Adderley Park: 1860 [11] Birmingham 2 West Midlands Trains 0.114 million 74,256 0.120 million ...
Site clearance underway in January 2020. Construction is due to be completed in 2028 [11]. At the start of 2019, the site was cleared. As at all HS2 sites, site clearance was followed by an extensive archaeological programme, in this case involving 70 archaeologists, which unearthed what is thought to be the world's oldest railway roundhouse adjacent to the old Curzon Street station.
Birmingham Curzon Street railway station (formerly Birmingham station) was a railway station in central Birmingham, England. Initially used as a major early passenger terminus before being eclipsed by newer facilities and converted into a goods depot, it was a continuously active railway facility up until 1966.
In 1846, the LNWR had obtained an act of Parliament, the London and Birmingham Railway (New Street Station) Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. ccclix), to extend their line into the centre of Birmingham, which involved the acquisition of some 1.2 hectares (3 acres) of land and the demolition of around 70 houses in Peck Lane, The Froggery, Queen Street ...