North Wales Mineral Railway

The North Wales Mineral Railway was a British railway company based in Denbighshire , Wales .

history

The North Wales Mineral Railway received on August 6, 1844 the concession to build a railway line from Wrexham via Rossett to a quay on Dee near Saltney and a transition to the Chester and Holyhead Railway . On July 21, 1845, the company also received the concession to build a line from Wrexham south to Ruabon . In the following year a concession was applied for to build a connecting line from Wheatsheaf Junction to Minera (Brymbo and Minera Branch).

The first two concessions set the equity at £ 270,000 and the loan amount at £ 90,000. For the third concession another £ 8,000 was approved, of which £ 2,000 as a loan.

On July 27, 1846, the company merged with the Shrewsbury, Oswestry and Chester Junction Railway ( Ruabon – Shrewsbury railway ) to form the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway . The approved 23.7 kilometer long railway line Ruabon Saltney was opened on November 4, 1846. The route to Minera planned by the North Wales Mineral Railway and licensed as part of the merger was opened in November 1847.

literature

Christopher Awdry: Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies . Patrick Stephens Limited, Wellingborough 1990, ISBN 1-85260-049-7 .

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Individual evidence

↑ 1847 (164) Railway bills. Report of the Commissioners of Railways, on certain railway bills comprised in groups nos. 1 and 3 (in pursuance of resolution of the House of Commons, of 23 February 1847.) *

[1] 1847 (164) Railway bills. Report of the Commissioners of Railways, on certain railway bills comprised in groups nos. 1 and 3 (in pursuance of resolution of the House of Commons, of 23 February 1847.) *