Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WHITBY, REDCAR, and MIDDLESBOROUGH UNION RAILWAY

WHITBY, REDCAR, and MIDDLESBOROUGH UNION RAILWAY, a railway in N. R. Yorkshire; from the Whitby branch of the Northeastern to the Cleveland. It was authorized in 1866, and is 16 miles long.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Whitby

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