A standard gauge railway line company that operated from the 1860s until the 1960s, nicknamed the Gingerbread Line after Market Drayton's gingerbread production.
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Proposals were for the railway to be worked by the LNWR, but instead the Great Western Railway took on this role and worked the nominally independent line until it was taken over by the GWR under the Great Western Railway (Additional Powers) Act 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. ccxlviii).
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The Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway was a standard gauge railway line which began as a single line branch in the early 1860s and rapidly became part of the Great Western Railway's (GWR) double track Wellington to Nantwich Railway, which had through trains to Crewe.
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transport company
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inception: 1860
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