Information for record number MWA425:
The Birmingham Branch of the Birminghamham & Derby Junction Railway

Summary The Birmingham Branch of the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway which was built during the Imperial period.
What Is It?  
Type: Railway
Period: Imperial - Industrial (1751 AD - 1913 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Kingsbury
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 16 91
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 Formal opening on the 5th of August 1839. Intermediate stations in Warwickshire at Kingsbury, Forge Mills, Coleshill and Water Orton. At this time a junction was brought into operation at Whitacre, north of the present station.
2 The line between Kingsbury and Whitacre is now used for freight only.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Dugdale Society Occasional Papers
Author/originator: Clinker C R
Date: 1956
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: SMR card : text
Author/originator: JMG
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source SMR Card Sites and Monuments Record Card. The Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record began to be developed during the 1970s. The details of individual archaeological sites and findspots were written on record cards. These record cards were used until the 1990s, when their details were entered on to a computerised system. The record cards are still kept at the office of the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
period Imperial 1751 AD to 1914 AD (end of the 18th century AD to the beginning of the 20th century AD)

This period comes after the Post Medieval period and before the modern period and starts with beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 1750. It includes the second part of the Hannoverian period (1714 – 1836) and the Victorian period (1837 – 1901). The Imperial period ends with the start of the First World War in 1914.
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monument MILL * A factory used for processing raw materials. Use more specific mill type where known. See also TEXTILE MILL, for more narrow terms. back
monument INDUSTRIAL * This is the top term for the class. See INDUSTRIAL Class List for narrow terms. back
monument RAILWAY * A line or track consisting of iron or steel rails, on which passenger carriages or goods wagons are moved, usually by a locomotive engine. back
monument FORGE * A building or site where bloom iron or cast iron is forged into wrought iron. back

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