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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Source Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway (Wikipedia)
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1. Wikidata: Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway
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transport company
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inception: 1860
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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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