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Dates
| / /1830 | [Middlesbrough Extension] Opened from Stockton (Bowesfield Junction) to Middlesbrough (Watson's Wharf) |
| / /1837 | [Middlesbrough Extension] Middlesbrough station relocated at further east riverside location |
| / /1842 | [Middlesbrough Extension] Middlesborough Dock branch opened |
| / /1846 | [Middlesbrough Extension] Middlesborough station opened at final location |
| 27/07/1846 | [North Wales Mineral Railway] [Shrewsbury Oswestry and Chester Junction Railway] [Shrewsbury and Chester Railway] North Wales Mineral Railway merges with the Shrewsbury, Oswestry and Chester Junction Railway to form the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway. |
| / /1847 | [Salisbury and Yeovil Railway] Company formed |
| / /1847 | [Leeds Dewsbury and Manchester Railway] Huddersfield to Heaton Lodge (terminus of a short Manchester and Leeds branch) opened |
| / /1848 | [Leeds Dewsbury and Manchester Railway] Ravensthorpe to Leeds Wellington Street opened |
| 22/07/1848 | [Salisbury and Yeovil Railway] Act passed |
| 24/07/1848 | ~Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway Ainsdale opened |
| 01/06/1849 | [Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway] Admaston opened |
| 01/06/1849 | [Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway] Abbey Foregate opened |
| / /1853 | [Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway] Line opened. Locomotive shed at Guisborough thought to open with line. |
| 06/12/1853 | [Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway] Opened to passengers. |
| / /1854 | [Shrewsbury and Chester Railway] [Great Western Railway] Shrewsbury and Chester Railway merged into the Great Western Railway. |
| 07/08/1854 | [Salisbury and Yeovil Railway] Line re-authorised |
| 15/08/1855 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Act receives Royal assent |
| / /1856 | Port Clarence to Middlesbrough Ferry Private Ferry taken over by Middlesbrough Town Council. |
| 28/05/1858 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Helensburgh opened |
| 28/05/1858 | Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway Opened as single track from Cowlairs Junction to Bowling and Dalreoch Junction to Helensburgh. Due to a disagreement over station access charges between the company and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway the first trains ran to Buchanan Street using the Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) and a connection at St Rollox with the Buchanan Street Extension (Glasgow, Garnkirk and Coatbridge Railway) line. The disagreement was resolved a month later. |
| / /1859 | [Wansbeck Railway] Act receives Royal assent |
| 02/05/1859 | [Salisbury and Yeovil Railway] Opened from Salisbury to Gillingham. Salisbury Milford closed and Salisbury Fisherton opened. |
| 07/05/1860 | [Salisbury and Yeovil Railway] Opened from Gillingham to Sherborne. |
| 01/06/1860 | [Salisbury and Yeovil Railway] Opened from Sherborne to Yeovil to meet the #Yeovil Branch# of the [Bristol and Exeter Junction Railway]. |
| / /1862 | [Wansbeck Railway] Line opened from Morpeth (Blyth and Tyne Railroad) to Scot's Gap. The Blyth and Tyne Railroad's Morpeth station was used. This terminus was approached by first crossing over the [Newcastle and Berwick Railway] and then joining the [Morpeth Branch] at an east facing junction, trains then reversed into the terminus. |
| 01/07/1862 | [Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway] Leased by the [London and North Western Railway], [West Midland Railway] and [Great Western Railway]. |
| 14/08/1862 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] [Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway] Absorbed by Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway |
| / /1863 | [Wansbeck Railway] [North British Railway] Wansbeck Railway absorbed by [North British Railway]. |
| / /1863 | [Busby Railway] Act receives Royal assent |
| / /1864 | [Wansbeck Railway] Extended from Scot's Gap to Knowe's Gate. |
| / /1865 | [Wansbeck Railway] Extended from Knowe's Gate to Reedsmouth ([Border Counties Railway]). |
| 01/01/1866 | [Busby Railway] Line opened from Pollockshaws to Busby largely in connection with quarrying. |
| /03/1866 | West Riding and Grimsby Railway Adwick opened |
| 16/07/1866 | [Potteries Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway] The Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway and Shrewsbury and Potteries Junction Railway merge to form the Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway |
| / /1867 | West Riding and Grimsby Railway Adwick renamed Adwick-le-Street and Carcroft |
| / /1871 | Sunderland, West Hartlepool and Middlesbrough Railway Two similar independent lines were proposed in response to the [North Eastern Railway]'s Wellfield to Stockton route. |
| / /1871 | [Wansbeck Railway] [Newcastle and Berwick Railway] Curve (authorised in original [Wansbeck Railway] Act) put in to allow [North British Railway] trains to run into the main Morpeth station in either 1871 or 1872. The two companies built the curve towards each other, meeting in the middle. On opening the [Wansbeck Railway] trains stopped using the Blyth and Tyne Railways [Morpeth Branch] terminus. |
| / /1872 | [Wansbeck Railway] Approach to Morpeth (Blyth and Tyne) closed on opening of connection to Morpeth (North Eastern). |
| 01/05/1880 | West Riding and Grimsby Railway Adwick-le-Street and Carcroft renamed Carcroft and Adwick-le-Street |
| / /1882 | [Busby Railway] [Caledonian Railway] Busby Railway absorbed by Caledonian Railway |
| 15/05/1882 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Craigendoran Pier and station opened. There was a double track station on the Helensburgh line, and a long curved single track platform which ran onto the pier. |
| / /1883 | [Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway] Opened from Loftus to Whitby (Bog Hall Junction) |
| 09/11/1885 | Abbotsbury Branch ([Great Western Railway]) Abbotsbury opened |
| / /1887 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Possilpark opened |
| 01/02/1887 | [Glasgow City and District Railway] [Coatbridge Branch] ([North British Railway]) [City of Glasgow Union Railway] [Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway] [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] [Stobcross Railway] Circular service introduced by the [North British Railway]. |
| / /1890 | Mossbeath Pit Sunk by the Cowdenbeath Coal Company |
| / /1890 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Drumchapel and Lochburn opened |
| 01/05/1890 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Drumchapel opened. |
| / /1900 | [Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway] Abbey Foregate renamed Abbey Foregate Platform |
| / /1903 | [Wansbeck Railway] Scot's Gap renamed Scotsgap. |
| 12/01/1903 | [Glasgow City and District Railway] [Coatbridge Branch] ([North British Railway]) [City of Glasgow Union Railway] [Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway] [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] [Stobcross Railway] Circular service withdrawn. |
| 27/02/1903 | [Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway] Guisborough locomotive shed burns down. |
| 03/11/1907 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Singer station on new loop line skirting round the north of the Singer factory opened. The old course of the line becomes a goods line to the west of Kilbowie Road and the old station becomes a terminus for worker's trains and is expanded to 6 platforms. |
| / /1908 | [Wansbeck Railway] Knowe's Gate renamed Knowesgate. |
| / /1908 | [Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway] Guisborough locomotive shed replaced with corrugated iron structure. |
| / /1908 | [Middlesbrough Extension] Diversion of the main line south around Tees Yard |
| /08/1910 | Port Clarence to Middlesbrough Ferry Work begins on the transporter bridge. |
| 17/10/1911 | Port Clarence to Middlesbrough Ferry Transporter bridge opened. |
| 30/09/1912 | [Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway] Abbey Foregate Platform closed |
| 01/09/1913 | [Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway][Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Westerton station opened at the junction of the Milngavie line with the Singer line. Westerton Garden Suburb was being established in what was previously farmland to the north of the line. |
| 01/01/1917 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Possilpark closed to regular services, retained for workman trains |
| / /1930 | Mossbeath Pit Re-built and linked to Cowdenbeath No 10 |
| 04/01/1942 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] New marshalling yard opened at Craigendoran |
| / /1945 | Mossbeath Pit Closed by fire but partly retained for training. |
| / /1952 | [Wansbeck Railway] Closed to passengers. |
| 30/06/1952 | [Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway] Admaston renamed Admaston Halt |
| 01/12/1952 | Abbotsbury Branch ([Great Western Railway]) Abbotsbury closed |
| / /1953 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Drumry opened |
| 08/06/1953 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Helensburgh renamed Helensburgh Central |
| / /1954 | [Leeds Dewsbury and Manchester Railway] Leeds Wellington Street closed |
| 20/09/1954 | [Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway] Guisborough locomotive shed closed. |
| 04/11/1960 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Last steam trains from Queen Street Low Level to Helensburgh as line is electrified. |
| 02/10/1961 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Maryhill Park closed |
| / /1963 | [Wansbeck Railway] Closed from Reedsmouth to Woodburn (excluded). |
| 20/07/1963 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Ruchill Goods and Hospital Branch closed. |
| 07/08/1964 | [Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway] Admaston Halt closed |
| / /1966 | [Wansbeck Railway] Closed from Woodburn to Morpeth (excluded). |
| 08/05/1967 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Singer Works station closed and electrification removed. |
| 06/11/1967 | West Riding and Grimsby Railway Carcroft and Adwick-le-Street closed |
| / /1969 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Singer Works station closed completely. |
| /07/1969 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Maryhill Park closed to goods |
| /07/1971 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Possilpark closed to goods |
| 25/09/1972 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Craigendoran Pier closed to vessels (Use of the pier was then given over to small craft for a number of years). |
| /10/1980 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Maryhill signal box burnt down, line to Anniesland closed. New box built on other side of track, but never used. The Maryhill to Anniesland section of the [Stobcross Railway] falls out of use. |
| 11/10/1993 | ~West Riding and Grimsby Railway Adwick opened |
| 02/12/1993 | [Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway] Queen Street High Level to Maryhill re-opened for local passenger service (Stations at; Maryhill, Lambhill, Summerston, Possilpark, Ashfield), trains continue to Knightswood West Junction to swap tracks. |
