The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume One Chester to Holyhead

by Stanley C. Jenkins and Martin Loader

The Chester & Holyhead Railway was incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1844, and the promoters were thereby empowered to build an 85-mile line along the North Wales coast, the engineer for the line being Robert Stephenson. The C&HR was, from its inception, intended to form part of a rail link between London and Dublin - the assumption being that such a line would improve the economic position of Ireland, while at the same time binding it ever...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445643898
• ISBN13: 9781445643892
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages