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England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west. The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germani...
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  • 2. The East Lancashire Railway Bury
    Lancashire is a ceremonial county in north west England. The administrative centre is Preston. The county has a population of 1,449,300 and an area of 1,189 square miles . People from Lancashire are known as Lancastrians. The history of Lancashire begins with its founding in the 12th century. In the Domesday Book of 1086, some of its lands were treated as part of Yorkshire. The land that lay between the Ribble and Mersey, Inter Ripam et Mersam, was included in the returns for Cheshire. When its boundaries were established, it bordered Cumberland, Westmorland, Yorkshire, and Cheshire. Lancashire emerged as a major commercial and industrial region during the Industrial Revolution. Liverpool and Manchester grew into its largest cities, dominating global trade and the birth of modern industria...
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  • 3. Littlehampton Miniature Railway Littlehampton
    Littlehampton is a seaside resort and pleasure harbour, and the most populous civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the English Channel on the eastern bank of the mouth of the River Arun. It is 51.5 miles south south-west of London, 19 miles west of Brighton and 10 miles east of the county town of Chichester. The parish covers an area of 11.35 km2 . The suburban area of the town has a population of approximately 55,000. The conurbation includes other settlements: Wick in the north west; Lyminster to the north; and Rustington to the east. Wick and Toddington, which has a large business park, became part of the town in 1901. Nearby towns include Bognor Regis and Worthing to the east. The town is also the westernmost settlement of the 12th largest urban area in...
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  • 4. Aln Valley Railway Alnwick
    The River Aln runs through the county of Northumberland in England. It rises in Alnham in the Cheviot Hills and discharges into the North Sea at Alnmouth on the east coast of England. The river gives its name to the town of Alnwick and the villages of Alnmouth and Alnham. For part of its route, directly upstream of Alnwick, the river flows through Hulne Park.
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  • 5. Midland Metro Birmingham
    West Midlands Metro is a light-rail/tram line in the county of West Midlands, England, operating between the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton via the towns of West Bromwich and Wednesbury. The line operates on streets in urban areas, and reopened conventional rail tracks that link the towns and cities. It is operated and owned by Transport for West Midlands. The Midland Metro Alliance brings together TfWM as well as various engineering and consultancy firms in a long term framework agreement to design and construct future expansions. The system was known as Midland Metro prior to June 2018. The line opened on 30 May 1999, mostly using the former disused Birmingham Snow Hill to Wolverhampton Low Level Line. The line originally terminated at Birmingham Snow Hill station at the edge of ...
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  • 6. Stansted Express Stansted Mountfitchet
    The Stansted Express is a direct train service linking London Liverpool Street to London Stansted Airport. It is a sub-brand of Greater Anglia, the current franchise operator of the East Anglia franchise.
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  • 7. Gatwick Express Crawley
    Gatwick Airport , also known as London Gatwick is a major international airport near Crawley in West Sussex, southeast England, 29.5 miles south of Central London. It is the second-busiest airport by total passenger traffic in the United Kingdom, after London Heathrow. Gatwick is the eighth-busiest airport in Europe. Until 2017, it was the busiest single-use runway airport in the world covering a total area of 674 Hectares.Gatwick opened as an aerodrome in the late 1920s, it has been in use for commercial flights since 1933. The airport has two terminals, the North Terminal and the South Terminal, which cover areas of 98,000 m2 and 160,000 m2 respectively. It operates as a single-runway airport, using a main runway with a length of 3,316 m . A secondary runway is available but, due to its ...
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  • 8. Wolverhampton Railway Station Wolverhampton
    Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 249,470. The demonym for people from the city is 'Wulfrunian'. Historically part of Staffordshire, the city is named after Wulfrun, who founded the town in 985, from the Anglo-Saxon Wulfrūnehēantūn . Prior to the Norman Conquest, the area's name appears only as variants of Heantune or Hamtun, the prefix Wulfrun or similar appearing in 1070 and thereafter. Alternatively, the city may have earned its original name from Wulfereēantūn after the Mercian King, who tradition tells us established an abbey in 659, though no evidence of an abbey has been found. The variation Wolveren Hampton is seen in medieval records, e.g. in 1381.The city grew initially as a market town ...
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  • 9. Staines Railway Station Staines
    Staines-upon-Thames is a town on the River Thames in Surrey, England. Historically part of Middlesex, it was known to the Romans as Pontes or Ad Pontes, then as Stanes and subsequently Staines. The town is within the western bounds of the M25 motorway, 17 miles south-west of Charing Cross. It is within the London Commuter Belt, Greater London Urban Area and adjoins part of the Green Belt. Passing along the edge of the town and crossing Staines Bridge is the Thames Path National Trail. Parts of the large Staines-upon-Thames post town are whole villages: Laleham, Stanwell and Wraysbury. The post town includes, due to the long association of Staines Bridge with a medieval causeway on the opposite bank of the river, half of a large part of a neighbouring town, Egham, namely Egham Hythe, which ...
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  • 12. Heathrow Express London
    Heathrow Express is an airport rail link between London Heathrow Airport and Paddington. It opened in 1998 and was an open access operator until November 2018, so it was not subject to franchising. From June 1998 to August 2018, the service was operated by the Heathrow Express Operating Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Heathrow Airport Holdings, but is now operated by Great Western Railway.
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  • 13. Surbiton Railway Station Surbiton
    Surbiton railway station is a National Rail station in Surbiton, south-west London, in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. The station is managed and served by South Western Railway, and is in Travelcard Zone 6. It is 12 miles 3 chains from London Waterloo and is situated between Berrylands and Esher on the main line. It has been considered as one of the finest modernist stations in Great Britain and is a Grade II listed building.
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  • 14. Elsecar Heritage Railway Elsecar
    Elsecar is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. Like many villages in the area, it was for many years a colliery village until the widespread pit closures during the 1980s. Elsecar is near the town of Hoyland and the villages of Jump and Wentworth. Elsecar is 1.5 miles south of Hoyland, 6 miles south of Barnsley and 8 miles north-east of Sheffield. The village falls within the Barnsley MBC Ward of Hoyland Milton. Elsecar is unique as a name. It is thought to derive from the Old English personal name of Aelfsige and the Old Norse word kjarr, used to denote a marsh or brushwood.
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  • 15. Docklands Light Railway London
    The Docklands Light Railway is an automated light metro system in the United Kingdom that serves the London Docklands area of east and south-east London, owned by Transport for London and currently operated under contract by Keolis Amey Docklands Ltd. Construction of the DLR was a key component in the regeneration of large parts of the London Docklands from disused industrial land into valuable commercial and residential districts. The first part opened in 1987 serving 15 stations, using redundant railway infrastructure and new construction. The network has been extended and the capacity of its trains expanded so that now nearly 70 million journeys made every year. Stations are in the City of London and the boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Greenwich and Lewisham with the majority of the ...
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