The L&YR was incorporated in 1847 by the Manchester and Leeds Railway Act (No. 3) 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. clxiii), being an amalgamation of several important lines, the chief of which was the See more

• The Helmshore rail accident on 4 September 1860 saw 11 people killed and 77 injured when the rear portion of a Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway passenger excursion train became detached … See more

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway locomotive works were originally at Miles Platting, Manchester. From 1889 they were at Horwich.
During its existence the L&YR stationed its locomotives at around sixty different depots, some of … See more

Surviving coaching stock of L&YR origin go as far as 1878, with Directors Saloon No. 1 being privately preserved at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. Multiple coaches are preserved by Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Trust, at the Keighley & Worth Valley … See more

The L&YR had the largest ship fleet of all the pre-grouping railway companies. In 1902 the assets of the Drogheda Steam Packet Company were acquired for the sum of £80,000 (equivalent to £10,970,000 in 2023). In 1905 they took over the Goole Steam Shipping Company See more

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• Locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway See more

• Awdry, C. (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-049-5.
• Beaumont, Martin (2015). Sir John Hawkshaw 1811–1891. Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society. ISBN See more