| Description | Volume of maps and book of references of intended ship canal and railway deviations.
CANAL.
From River Mersey at Runcorn to Salford docks where the River Irwell joins. Also details of training wall between Runcorn and Eastham. Passing through the townships of Norton, Moore, Walton Inferior, Appleton, Latchford, Grappenhall, Thelwall, Lymm, Warburton, Partington, Carrington, Flixton, Barton upon Irwell, and Stretford. Shows the line of the Runcorn to Latchford Canal to be abandoned, sometimes called the Mersey and Irwell Canal.
52 enlarged detail maps of road crossings etc. main scale 6 inch to 1 mile.
RAILWAYS
1" OS composite map of various dates showing the line of mapped deviations to existing railways.
Detail Maps:-
Deviation 1. LNWR, Moore to Warrington Bank Quay station, through townships of Acton Grange, Walton Inferior, Warrington.
Deviation 2. BL & CJ R. Moore to Arpley Station through same townships as Dev 1.
Deviation 3. LNWR Arpley station to a point 1 mile east of Latchford Station., townships of Warrington, Latchford and Grappenhall.
Deviation 4 Glazebrook on the CLR and Carrington Moss (Cadishead Station and Partington Station)
Deviation 5. CLR. between its junction with Stockport and Glazebrook Railway and Flixton Station
Branch Railways.
No 1. From LNWR across Arpley Meadows.
Branch 2 & 3 From CLR between Cadishead and Partington Stations to both sides of the proposed ship canal.
Railway Company abreviations used above.
BL & CJ R - Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Joint Railway.
CLR - Cheshire Lines Railway.
LNWR - Lancashire North Western Railway
Engineers James Abernethy and E. Leader Williams.
Deposited:- 30 November 1882 |