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WELLINGTON AND SEVERN JUNCTION RAILWAY, a railway in Salop; from the Shrewsbury and Birmingham in the E neighbourhood of Wellington, 5½ miles southward to the Severn Valley, with a short branch to Coalbrookdale. It was authorized in 1853, and was leased in 1861, for 999 years, to the Great Western.
(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: | Shropshire AncC |
Place: | Wellington |
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