Lines
Created from:
- Stockport and Woodley Junction Railway
- Cheshire Midland Railway
- Stockport, Timperley and Altrincham Junction Railway
- West Cheshire Railway
Absorbed:
- Garston and Liverpool Railway
Built:
- Liverpool to Manchester line.
- Glazebrook East Junction to Skelton Junction Line
- North Liverpool Extension Line
- Southport & Cheshire Lines Extension Railway
Read more about this topic: Cheshire Lines Committee
Famous quotes containing the word lines:
“The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
—Anonymous.
A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)
“When the rose reigns, and locks with ointments shine,
Let rigid Cato read these lines of mine.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“I need not tell you of the inadequacy of the American shipping marine on the Pacific Coast.... For this reason it seems to me that there is no subject to which Congress can better devote its attention in the coming session than the passage of a bill which shall encourage our merchant marine in such a way as to establish American lines directly between New York and the eastern ports and South American ports, and both our Pacific Coast ports and the Orient and the Philippines.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)