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    Runcorn Docks, originally the Bridgewater Docks, is an inland port on the Manchester Ship Canal in the town of Runcorn, Cheshire, England. It is operated...
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    which would link Weston Point Docks on the Weston Canal with Runcorn Docks on the Bridgewater Canal. Two further docks, the Delamere (1865-1870) and the...
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    Bridgewater Canal to Runcorn in 1776 established it as a port that would link Liverpool with inland Manchester and Staffordshire. The docks enabled the growth...
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    The Runcorn and Weston Canal was built in 1858–59, providing a connection between Runcorn Docks and the Weaver Navigation. A new half tide dock, the...
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    the Bridgewater Canal and Runcorn Docks. It was completed in 1859, but was little used. Around half of it became the Arnold Dock in 1876, when it was made...
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    River Mersey (redirect from Runcorn Gap)
    interconnected dock system in the world. American author Herman Melville compared Liverpool Docks to the pyramids of Egypt and the Great Lakes. The docks were built...
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    Manchester Dry Docks Company. The graving docks were constructed adjacent to the south bank of the canal, and a floating pontoon dock was built nearby...
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    curve from Allerton on the former St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway opened on 1 January 1873 and the dock was completed in June 1875. v t e Railway Magazine...
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    The St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway was an early railway line owned by a company of the same name in Lancashire, England, which opened in 1833. It was...
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    the Runcorn and Weston Canal, which was completed in 1859. The canal left the Weston Canal at Weston Point, and provided a link to Runcorn Docks, near...
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    Widnes Dock was the first rail-to-ship facility in the world. It was built in 1833 between the end of the Sankey Canal and the St Helens and Runcorn Gap...
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    Garston Dock was originally set up by the St. Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway Company in June 1853. It contains Old Dock, North Dock and Stalbridge Dock. By...
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    Tanganyika  United Kingdom : Runcorn Docks, England, United Kingdom, on the Manchester Ship Canal  United Kingdom : Weston Point Docks, England, United Kingdom...
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    Hall Caine (category People from Runcorn)
    shipsmith. At the time of Caine's birth, he was working temporarily in Runcorn docks. Within a few months the family were back in Liverpool, where Caine...
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    Runcorn is an industrial town in Halton, Cheshire, England, on the south bank of the River Mersey where it narrows at Runcorn Gap. In the town are the...
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    of its route. Much of the western end of the canal, including the docks at Runcorn, disappeared when the much larger ship canal was built. The eastern...
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  • Garston Dock railway station served Garston, Liverpool, Merseyside, England and Garston Docks. It was situated on the east side of Dock Road. The station...
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    Bootle, Birkenhead and Wallasey. Further areas, including Widnes and Runcorn, were added to the Special Review Area by Order in 1965. Draft proposals...
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    Welsh immigrants who arrived via the Liverpool docks, as well as Scandinavian sailors who also used the docks. People from Liverpool are known as Liverpudlians...
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    where the estuary narrows to form the Runcorn Gap. Directly to the south across the Mersey is the town of Runcorn. Upstream 8 miles (13 km) to the east...
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    a short stretch of canal linking the river near Frodsham to docks at Weston Point, Runcorn. On 1 September 1872, he joined the Bridgewater Navigation Company...
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    progress at Bramley-Moore Dock stadium site". The Business Desk. 25 April 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2023. "Runcorn Station: Runcorn Station Quarter development...
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    Irwell section of the navigation and the long cut between Latchford and Runcorn. The idea that the Rivers Mersey and Irwell should be made navigable from...
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    weir. In 1804, an eight-mile long canal was built between Latchford and Runcorn. It was named the Old Quay Canal. Once the Manchester Ship Canal was dug...
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  • Halt railway station was on the southern section of the St Helens and Runcorn Gap line of the London and North Western Railway. On 1 October 1911 the...
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    Football Club, Burscough Football Club and Runcorn Linnets Football Club (formerly known as 'Runcorn F.C.' and Runcorn F.C. Halton). Barry Town F.C., the South...
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    Liverpool–Wigan line, with services continuing to Warrington, Chester via Runcorn and Blackpool and Preston via Wigan. It is mainly operated by Northern...
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    neighbouring River Mersey. The first of the Liverpool docks was constructed in 1715, and the system of docks gradually grew into a large interconnected system...
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  • Brunswick Dock railway station was on the Liverpool Overhead Railway, adjacent to Brunswick Dock and in close proximity to the Cheshire Lines Committee's...
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  • Dock was a railway station on the Liverpool Overhead Railway, adjacent to the dock of the same name. It became particularly busy after Langton Dock station...
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