Former Manchester Sheffield And Lincoln Railway Bridge - Chester, UK
Posted by: dtrebilc
N 53° 12.115 W 002° 53.028
30U E 507762 N 5894738
This brick built single arch bridge used to carry the Manchester Sheffield And Lincoln Railway over Dicksons Drive.
Waymark Code: WMWQ2J
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/30/2017
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"The MS&LR was formed by the amalgamation of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway with two proposed lines – the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway and the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway, with its headquarters at Manchester London Road. The Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway had opened between Manchester and Sheffield in 1845, but as early as 1844 the promoters of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction had approached the SA&MR with a view to the latter leasing it. The Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction had been promoted by the Grimsby Docks Company, actually the oldest company of the three. Until reaching south with its 'Derbyshire Lines', the MS&LR was essentially an east-to-west Trans-Pennine line.
Before the formation of the MS&LR, the SA&MR had already absorbed a number of existing and proposed lines. Another important part of its operation was the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway, promoted as its link to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and which it owned and operated jointly with the Manchester and Birmingham Railway; although both the M&BR and the L&MR subsequently became part of the London and North Western Railway."
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This bridge originally carried the stretch of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway between Mickle Trafford near Chester in England and Dee Marsh in Wales.
This line has now closed to rail traffic and converted to the 'rails-to-trails' route the Chester Millennium Greenway and forms part of the National Cycle Route 5 that connects Holyhead with Reading.