Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway
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wilts-somerset-and-weymouth-railway-172-1502986
title:
Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway
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The Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway (WS&WR) was an early railway company in south-western England. It obtained Parliamentary powers in 1845 to build a railway from near Chippenham in Wiltshire, southward to Salisbury and Weymouth in Dorset. It opened the first part of the network but found it impossible to raise further money and sold its line to the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1850. The GWR took over the construction and undertook to build an adjacent connecting line; the network was co
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Former railway company in England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilts,_Somerset_and_Weymouth_Railway
date created:
2007-01-29T13:24:49Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T17:47:03Z
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