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West Coast Main Line special: the spine of the nation

Avanti West Coast 390130 crosses Docker Viaduct (Cumbria) with the 1040 Glasgow Central-London Euston on June 17 2021

Even before completion of the world’s first inter-city railway between Liverpool and Manchester in 1830, promoters already had their eye on a much bigger prize.

The 112-mile London & Birmingham Railway, finally authorised in 1833 with share capital of £2,500,000, was the world’s biggest and most ambitious civil engineering scheme.




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