The Coming of the Railway to Oldham

From : The Manchester Times and Gazette of 26th July 1845.

Main interest is the list of local people it has in it.
There is a lot of coverage of this company in the press for the following two years until it became part of Oldham Alliance Railways.

by Stephen Darlington

(Part of Stephen's on-going project at MLFHS, Oldham & District, HERE)