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Auction: 20128 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 283

Great Britain: St.Helen's and Runcorn Gap Railway, share #839, [1830], simple black printing, shows several installments paid. The company obtained its Act of Parliament in 1830, raising all of the £120,000 capital locally. The 12 mile line was finally opened in 1833 mostly for freight traffic but passenger coaches were added due to public demand. Widnes Dock was built at the end of the line. Merged with the Sankey Canal (Sankey Brook Navigation) as the St.Helen's Canal and Railway Company in 1845. AEF.

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