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The title "Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway" was adopted by the Manchester & Leeds Railway
in July, 1847 following its absorption of a number of earlier local
railways.
Serving the industrial heart of the North
West of England and forming the critical link to the mineral wealth
of Yorkshire, the L & Y rapidly grew into a complex and progressive
railway system, with considerable shipping interests on the north-west
coast and North Sea.
This was coupled with an immense freight
business, an extensive commuter network, a heavy traffic in tourists
to Blackpool and other holiday destinations around Morecambe Bay
and of course the famous trans-pennine
expresses linking Manchester, Liverpool with Leeds, Bradford and
York.
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