Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NORTHWESTERN and CHARING-CROSS RAILWAY

NORTHWESTERN and CHARING-CROSS RAILWAY, a railway in Middlesex; from the Hampstead-Road to the Charing-Cross, with a branch to the London and Northwestern. It was authorized in 1864, in an act which gave power also to construct, in connexion withit, several new streets from Tottenham-Court-Road to the Strand; and the capital for it was £990,000 in shares and £330,000 in loans. The length of the railway, inclusive of the branch, was to be 4½ miles. Arrangements were originally made with the Northwestern and the Southeastern; and these were afterwards shaped into an agreement for working and maintaining it on certain fixed terms. But the entire scheme, as to both railway and new streets, was abandoned in 1867.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Middlesex AncC

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