Border Counties Railway
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border-counties-railway-164-472854
title:
Border Counties Railway
text:
The Border Counties Railway was a railway line connecting Hexham in Northumberland, with Riccarton Junction on the Waverley Route in Roxburghshire. Its promoter had hopes of exploiting mineral resources in the area, and it was taken up by the North British Railway, which hoped to develop it as a through main line between Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne. The railway opened in stages between 1858 and 1862, but the anticipated level of commercial traffic did not materialise, and the sparse popula
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Former railway line serving England and Scotland
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Counties_Railway
date created:
2008-02-01T14:39:39Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T20:02:52Z
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