Weaver Junction

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Weaver Junction is a railway junction on the West Coast Main Line (WCML). It connects Ditton to the WCML via Runcorn Railway Bridge and opened on 1 April 1869. Trains bound for Liverpool from London diverge from the WCML at this junction. Weaver Junction is the oldest flying junction in Britain.[1]

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  1. ^ Marshall, John (1975). The Guinness Book of Rail Facts and Feats, 2nd, Enfield: Guinness Superlatives, 65. ISBN 900424 33 8. 


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