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LIVERPOOL, CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT RAILWAY, a railway in Lancashire; from a junction with the Liverpool and Bury, 1¾ mile N of Tithebarn-street station in Liverpool, over the Lancashire and Yorkshire and the East Lancashire to Crosby, and thence along the coast to Southport. It was authorized in 1847; and was purchased by the Lancashire and Yorkshire in 1855. It is 18½ miles long; but 1¾ mile of its length, to the Kirkdale junction, belonged originally to the Lancashire and Yorkshire and the East Lancashire.
(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: | Lancashire Ancient County |
| Place: | Liverpool |
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