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Britannia and Baltimore Mining Company to prospect for and mine gold in the United Kingdom. Although some gold was produced it was not enough to make the company viable. During this
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The period of 1844–45 proved to be especially busy with new lines from
Birmingham to Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Newton, and Chester,; the Yarmouth Junction, from Diss and Beccles, the Irish Great Western, from Naas, by Tullamore, to Galway, the Metropolitan Counties Junction, from Gravesend, by
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in 1847 was notable as "Castleman' Corkscrew": its promoters insisted that it should serve as many of the local communities as possible. At this time, Moorsom surveyed the line from Exeter and
Plymouth to Falmouth, the West Cornwall Railway, from Truro to Penzance.
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Reigate, Dorking, Weybridge, Staines, Rickmansworth, St. Albans, Chelmsford, and
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