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The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) had the largest 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. In 1905 they took over the Goole Steam Shipping Company. By 1913 they owned 26 vessels, with another two under construction, plus a further five under joint ownership with the London and North Western Railway. The L&YR ran steamers between Liverpool and Drogheda, Hull and Zeebrugge, and between Goole and many continental ports including Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Hamburg, and Rotterdam. The jointly owned vessels provided services between Fleetwood, Belfast and Derry.
References
- ↑ History of the Fylde of Lancashire. John Porter. 1876
- ↑ The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. Volume 2 John Marshall. 1969
- ↑ Railway and other steamers. C Duckworth, G Langmuir. 1948
- ↑ Railway Gazette. Volume 76. 1942