The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) began operating on June 20 1839 with a train service from a temporary terminus at Mile End to Romford, and working to a gauge of five feet. The line was extended the following year to a new terminus at Shoreditch (later renamed Bishopsgate; and the line was subsequently extended to the 51 miles between London and Colchester.
Between September and October 1844 the gauge was converted to standard gauge (4' 8.5"), as was the Northern & Eastern Railway with which it eventually amalgamated with the Great Eastern Railway in 1902.
(Information taken from The Railway Year Book 1912)
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With the expansion of the railways and as telecommunications improved this became increasingly awkward.
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In 1865 (c.13), railways from Truro to New Brunswick (slow to proceed because of the barrier posed by the Cobequid Mountains) and from Windsor to Annapolis (with the province bearing the high cost of the necessary bridge across the Avon River at Windsor) were authorized.
The authorized railway was in the streets of Liverpool and Milton, and the highway between them, "thence by the west side of the Mersey River [referenced to as the Liverpool River in the Milton Tramway charter] to the premises of the Milton Pulp company, limited, and thence across the river to the pulp mill".
Since the railway crossed a good many streets in the then-unincorporated town of Shelburne, some of which were unopened, and had graded the road thought the town, the municipality had to be given authority to close the streets to public use to avoid an excessive number of crossings (c.122).
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