The LNWR had 3 rly undertakings that made the towns they were situated in to be considered rly towns.?

Question

Which were these towns and what was each town providing for the LNWR

Answer 1

Crewe was the HQ of the LNWR and in 1922 they took over the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) whose HQ was at Horwich. Locomotive building continued at Horwich into LMS days.

I believe various places could contend for the 3rd, e.g. Wolverton (carriage works), Rainhill (site of Locomotive Trials in 1829), Manchester (home of locomotive builders Beyer, Peacock & Co.) & site of large loco depot at Longsight.

Euston Station in London has the distinction of being the first London rail terminus to open (1837) therefore London itself has the distinction of being the first capital city in the world to have a rail connection (London & Birmingham Railway, later absorbed into LNWR).

Answer 2

They had a locomative works in Crewe

And a cariage works in Wolverhampton.

I don't know about the third

Answer 3

Crewe (loco works) and Wolverton (carriages) as mentioned by others.

The third could well be Earlestown in Lancs on Liverpool Lime St - Manchester line , there used to be a wagon works here.

Answer 4

The LNWR was formed in 1846 with the merger of the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway.

The GJR and the L&BR initially had their workshops at Edge Hill but the latter quickly moved to Wolverton. The Grand Junction built a new works at Crewe in 1843, while the Manchester and Birmingham's works was at Longsight.