I think it was because I was using a Cotton mill card, not a Manchester card. If you use the locality card, then you can build regardless the network, I guess.
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And I just now saw Benkyo’s answer in the discussion thread 
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Use my Oldham card to build a cotton mill there (12 bob a pop, I believe that is) and use my Rochdale card to build a canal to rival Yorkshire for 3 pounds more. No, wait, pesky Captbnut beat me to that, I spotted it before having to speak with my lawyers…
I guess it will be only a coalmine in Rochdale for another 5 quid.
I didn’t build that canal so go for it
EDIT: seems like I cannot build a canal there without a building first, so coal mine it is.
The cotton mill was £12 and the coal mine was £7. The mine is tier 2 so it won’t be removed from the board at the end of the canal era.
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Play a cotton mill to build a canal to Bolton £3.
Play Fleetwood and take a £30 loan.
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Turn order is: @GeeBizzle, @Benkyo, @Chewy77, @Captbnut
Income:
@GeeBizzle: £2
@Captbnut: £0
@Benkyo: £1
@Chewy77: £3
Player boards and cash at the beginning of the next round:
@Benkyo (£69)
| Tier | Cotton Mills | Ports | Shipyards | Iron works | Coal mines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IV | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 |
| III | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 |
| II | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| I | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Locked | - | - | 2 | - | - |
@Captbnut (£26)
| Tier | Cotton Mills | Ports | Shipyards | Iron works | Coal mines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IV | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 |
| III | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 |
| II | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| I | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Locked | - | - | 2 | - | - |
@Chewy77 (£3)
| Tier | Cotton Mills | Ports | Shipyards | Iron works | Coal mines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IV | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 |
| III | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 |
| II | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| I | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Locked | - | - | 2 | - | - |
@GeeBizzle (£49)
| Tier | Cotton Mills | Ports | Shipyards | Iron works | Coal mines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IV | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 |
| III | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 |
| II | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| I | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Locked | - | - | 2 | - | - |
Reference player board:
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Play 1 cotton mill to build mill in Bolton (£14) taking coal from Oldham.
Play shipyard and sell cotton from bury and Bolton to elesmere. (Fully expecting a one good to one port rule here. So may be scuppered?).
After consultation with my lawyer I’ll flip both ellesmere and Liverpool.
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Play Preston to build mill for £16 + £2 iron, coal from Rochdale(!) Oldham.
Discard Manchester to sell cotton to Lancaster Liverpool.
I use a Lancaster card for a loan of £30
I use an Iron Works card to overbuild my Factory in Preston (£7, I believe) using that coal from Oldham, or do I need to use mine from Rochdale first?
Edit: Thanks Benkyo, I had missed how the Oldham coal was used. Rochdale it is.
Use Oldham card to overbuild coal mine (£7) - in Brass Birmingham I would get the income boost from the overbuilt mine, but no end of round scoring, I assume that’s the same here?
Edit: changing second action
Use Preston card to develop a port and a cotton mill (1 iron from @Chewy77 in Preston (tile flips), £1)
What I’ve seen on playthroughs is that you do get the new coal, the new income if flipped, but you lose the initial VPs for the lower category building replaced.
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That’s right. Although to be pedantic I hadn’t scored the points for the flipped tile yet, so I don’t ‘lose’ them
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Yes, but if level 1 was say 5 points, and level 2 say 7, you would have scored 12 building them separately, and now you will only score the 7…
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Ok so after further legal advice it has been brought to my attention, I can’t count.
Play shipyard and sell cotton from bury to elesmere.
Play Burnley and build coal in burnley.(£7)
Don’t think that mucks up anyone’s follow on moves sorry.
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Burnley isn’t on the network I’m afraid
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You can play a location card to build in that location, even if it isn’t on your network.
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