Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LONDON (WEST), RAILWAY

LONDON (WEST), RAILWAY, a railway, in conjunction with the Kensington canal, in the western suburbs of the metropolis. It was authorized in 1836, under the title of the Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction, to unite the Northwestern and the Great Western railways with the western parts of the metropolis, and to communicate with the river Thames through the medium of the Kensington canal purchased for £36,000; it changed its original title for the subsequent one in 1841; it was to have a total length of 9½ miles,- upwards of three of which, from the Northwestern near Kensal-Green cemetery to the Kensington canal, were opened in 1844; it was leased in 1845, for 999 years, at an annual rent of £1,800, to jointly the Northwestern and the Great Western; and it was transferred, together with the canal, in 1859, to the West London Railway Extension Works.


(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: Middlesex AncC

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