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English: Manchester
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Image extracted from page 176 of The Book of The Grand Junction Railway, being a history and description of the line from Birmingham to Liverpool and Manchester, by Thomas Roscoe, assisted by the resident engineers of the line. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.

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 Geotemporal data
Map location Manchester 
wikidata:Q18125
OpenStreetMap zoom level 14
Bounding box
N: 53.487522°N
W: 2.261261°W E: 2.235743°W
S: 53.473865°N
Georeferencing View georeferenced map in external georeferencer
 Bibliographic data
Publication
The Book of the Grand Junction Railway 
wikidata:Q63315003
Author
Thomas Roscoe 
wikidata:Q16065601
Page(s) 176
Language English
Place of publication London
 Archival data
institution QS:P195,Q23308
Accession number
British Library HMNTS 796.f.3.
Dimensions height: 11.3 in (28.8 cm); width: 7.2 in (18.3 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,11.34U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,7.225U218593
Notes Open this page in the British Library's item viewer (page 176)
Download the PDF for this book (volume: 0)
Scan resolution 200 dpi





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