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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Bridgewater Canal to Runcorn in 1776 established it as a port which would link Liverpool with inland Manchester and Staffordshire. The docks enabled the growth...
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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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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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Manchester Ship Canal (section Docks and wharfs)
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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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)
in the vast scale of their construction. The docks were built out into the river bed. The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board used granite from a quarry it...
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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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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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