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YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY, a railway system in Yorkshire; comprising a main line from York to Normanton and Knottingley, branches to Scarborongh and Whitby, a line from Hull to Leeds, and several short branches. It is aggregately 263 miles long; and it was amalgamated with other systems, in 1854, to constitute the Northeastern.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a railway system" (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features") |
Administrative units: | Yorkshire AncC |
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