The closest airports are Manchester Airport at, Blackpool Airport at and Leeds Bradford Airport at.

In more recent times the memorable 1970 final replay between Leeds and Chelsea was held at Old Trafford in Manchester.

He worked on the North Midland line from Derby to Leeds, the York and North Midland line from Normanton to York, the Manchester and Leeds, the Birmingham and Derby, the Sheffield and Rotherham among many others.

SuperJanet3 created new 155 Mbit / s ATM nodes to fully connect all of the major sites at London, Bristol, Manchester and Leeds, with 34 Mbit / s links to smaller sites around the country.

Manchester United has rivalries with Arsenal, Leeds United, Liverpool, and Manchester City, against whom they contest the Manchester derby.

The " Roses Rivalry " with Leeds stems from the Wars of the Roses, fought between the House of Lancaster and the House of York, with Manchester United representing Lancashire and Leeds representing Yorkshire.

However, the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, authorised on 12 July 1837, was ; the Eastern Counties Railway, authorised on 4 July 1836, was ; London and Blackwall Railway, authorised on 28 July 1836, was ; the London and Brighton Railway, authorised on 15 July 1837, was ; the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, authorised on 30 June 1837, was ; the Manchester and Leeds Railway, authorised on 4 July 1836, was and the Northern and Eastern Railway, authorised on 4 July 1836, was.

Urban rail networks exist in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, Belfast, Leeds and Liverpool.

He did nonetheless agree to some electoral reform ; he disfranchised several small boroughs, granted representation to large towns such as Manchester and Leeds, and increased the number of members elected by populous counties.

In 1830, Russell proposed another, similar scheme: the enfranchisement of Leeds, Manchester, and Birmingham, and the disfranchisement of the next three boroughs found guilty of corruption ; again, the proposal was rejected.

In response, disenchanted Tories who perceived a danger to the established religion came to favour parliamentary reform, in particular the enfranchisement of Manchester, Leeds, and other heavily Noncomformist cities in northern England.

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Of the total, nearly half were built at Avro's Woodford and Chadderton ( Manchester ) sites, with some 700 Lancasters built at the Avro " shadow " factory next to Leeds Bradford Airport ( formerly Yeadon Aerodrome ), northwest Leeds.

A memorable incident happened when Manchester United faced Leeds United in March 2001.

Integrated ticketing was introduced which makes it possible to travel to Dewsbury, Leeds or Manchester with a single ticket bought on board the bus.

After a gap of around 30 years, new high-rise flats are once again being built in Belfast, Birmingham ( some are for wealthy people, e. g. The Mailbox, others are student accommodation ), Cardiff, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, and Newcastle upon Tyne ; but this time sometimes for wealthy professionals, rather than the ` lower classes `.

Tonight with Trevor McDonald highlighted that in Leeds and Manchester ( perhaps the cities that had seen most development ) only approximately half were occupied and with owner occupation often being as low as 10 %.

Newcastle Airport is the nearest, however for alternative flights, Edinburgh Airport, Manchester Airport and Leeds Bradford Airport are all within.

The factory grounds were bordered by the Bridgewater Canal and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

He used this knowledge while working on the Bolton and Leigh Railway, and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway ( L & MR ), executing a series of difficult cuts, embankments and stone viaducts to smooth the route the railways took.

1830 also saw the grand opening of the skew bridge in Rainhill as part of the grand opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

George Stephenson, with his work on the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, paved the way for the railway engineers who were to follow, such as his son Robert, his assistant Joseph Locke who went on to carry out much work on his own account and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Painting depicting the Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway | opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830, the first inter-city railway in the world and which spawned Railway Mania due to its success.

On 15 September 1830, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was opened, the first inter-city railway in the world and was attended by Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington.

First passenger railway, Liverpool and Manchester Railway | L & MR

The first inter city passenger railway, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, opened in 1830, making exclusive use of steam power for both passenger and freight trains.

Palin's first travel documentary was part of the 1980 BBC Television series Great Railway Journeys of the World, in which, humorously reminiscing about his childhood hobby of train spotting, he travelled throughout the UK by train, from London to the Kyle of Lochalsh, via Manchester, York, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh and Inverness.

Manchester United was formed in 1878 as Newton Heath LYR Football Club by the Carriage and Wagon department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ( LYR ) depot at Newton Heath.

These include the London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, Blackpool Tramway, London Tramlink, Glasgow Subway, Tyne and Wear Metro, Manchester Metrolink, Sheffield Supertram, Midland Metro and Nottingham Express Transit.

The Rainhill Trials were an important competition in the early days of steam locomotive railways, run in October 1829 in Rainhill, Lancashire ( now Merseyside ) for the nearly completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

When the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was approaching completion, the directors of the railway ran a competition to decide whether stationary steam engines or locomotives would be used to pull the trains.

Despite the failure it was purchased by the Liverpool & Manchester, where it served for two years before being leased to the Bolton and Leigh Railway.

The Stephensons were accordingly given the contract to produce locomotives for the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.

George Stephenson used the 4 ft 8½ in gauge ( with a belated extra of free movement to reduce binding on curves ) for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, authorised in 1826 and opened 30 September 1830.

The Manchester Depot Sewer Company issued 214 shares of stock at $10 each for construction of a sewer in that locality, and assessments were made for its maintenance.

The first known telephone line in Manchester was established in July 1883 between Burr and Manley's store at Manchester Depot and the Kent and Root Marble Company in South Dorset.

In 1918 the New England Telephone Company began erecting a building to house its operations on the corner of U. S. Rte. 7 and what is now Memorial Avenue at Manchester Center.

Service running through Barnumville and to Bennington County towns east of the mountains was in the hands of the `` Gleason Telephone Company '' in 1925, but major supervision of telephone lines in Manchester was with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, which eventually gained all control.

The next step was construction by the Manchester Light and Power Company of a plant on the west bank of the Battenkill south of Union Street bridge.

The first directors of the Manchester Light and Power Company were John Marsden, M. L. Manley, William F. Orvis, George Smith, and John Blackmer.

Manchester then had two competing power companies until 1904, when the Manchester Light and Power Company purchased the transmission system of the Vail Company.

For a time following the abandonment of the local plant, electric current for Manchester was brought in from the south with an emergency tie-in with the Vermont Marble Company system to the north.

Levi Strauss & Co. began manufacturing the famous Levi's brand of jeans, using fabric from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, New Hampshire.

The United Kingdom premiere took place at the Theatre Royal in Manchester, on 22 April 1897, in a presentation by the Carl Rosa Opera Company supervised by Puccini.

Roe and Company was established at Brownsfield Mill, Great Ancoats Street, Manchester, by Alliott Verdon Roe and his brother Humphrey Verdon Roe on 1 January 1910.

In 1924, the Company left Alexandra Park Aerodrome in south Manchester where test flying had taken place during the period since 1918 and the site was taken over by a mixture of recreation and housing development.

Barker failed to get into the Young Vic School, but joined the Manchester Repertory Company, which was based in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, often taking comic roles in their weekly shows.

The Manchester Repertory Company closed, as did the Rhyl company shortly after.

Manchester added the Hickerson and Wooten Paper Company in 1879.

“ B ” Company was mostly Clay County men and those along the river toward Manchester, KY. “ C ” Company in ­ cluded volunteers from the southern part of Jackson with McKee men serving as officers.

Following Blodgett's suggestion, Derryfield was renamed Manchester in 1810, the year the mill was incorporated as the Amoskeag Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company.

In 1884 with £ 20 of savings he entered a partnership with Ernest Claremont, a friend who contributed £ 50, and they started a business making domestic electric fittings in a workshop in Cooke Street, Hulme, Manchester called F H Royce and Company.

In 1824, Hackworth occupied a temporary position as a " borrowed man " or relief manager at the Forth Street factory of Robert Stephenson and Company, whilst Robert was away in South America and George was occupied with the surveying of new railways, notably the Liverpool and Manchester.