Papers relating to the Warrington & Altrincham Junction Railway: copy draft agreement between Legh Richmond, agent to Lord Stamford, and Gilbert Greenall MP, chairman of the Warrington & Altrincham Junction Railway, for conveyance of lands in the event of the promoters obtaining Parliamentary approval, 1 Feb 1851 (/1); schedule of lands purchased by the Railway from the 7th Earl of Stamford, recording the number on the plan, the name of the lessee and tenant, and acreage of each parcel, n.d. [c 1851] (/2); plan of land to be conveyed by Lord Stamford to the Railway, from Barns Lane in Dunham Massey to Broadheath in Altrincham (/3); 2 large plans and sections of the proposed extension of the W. & A.J.R. from Broadheath in Altrincham to Stockport, through Altrincham and Baguley, Nov 1852 (/4-5); copy agreement between Legh Richmond, agent to Lord Stamford, and Gilbert Greenall MP, chairman of the Warrington & Altrincham Junction Railway, for conveyance of lands in the event of the promoters obtaining Parliamentary approval for the extension to Altrincham, 20 May 1853 (/6).
[The Warrington & Altrincham Junction Railway Act authorizing construction of a line from Arpley near Warrington to Timperley received Royal Assent on 3 July 1851. The line opened as far as Broadheath in Altrincham on 1 November 1853. On 4 August 1853 an Act was obtained for extending the line to Stockport, and the company changed its name to the Warrington & Stockport Railway. Source: G.O. Holt, A regional history of the railways of Great Britain, vol. x: the North West (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1978), pp. 86, 89-90.]