Monument record 2521/1/0 - The Grand Junction Railway

<1> Ashmore, O, 1982, Railways and Waterways to Warrington, /18 (Monograph). SCH2792.

The Grand Junction Railway was authorised on 6th may 1833 as a line from Birmingham to the Warrington & Newton Railway in Warrington. Local names such as Charles Tayleur and Hardman Earle appear among the original directors. The Grand Junction opened on 4th July 1837. On the 1st July 1840 it was aquired by the Crewe and Chester Railway which opened on the 1st October 1840. In July 1845 this line aquired the Liverpool and Manchester, Leigh and Kenyon and the Bolton and Leigh Railways. It then became part of the London and Birmingham and the Manchester and Birmingham Railways. These lines together became known as the London and North Western Railway (LNWR), Grand Junction Railway until 1846 and then became part of the London and North Western Railway.