The Pre-grouping Railways: Their Development, and Individual Characters Parts 1, 2 & 3

Christine Heap & John van Riemsdijk

ISBN 10: 0112901530 / ISBN 13: 9780112901532

Published by London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1985

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Condition Notes: Gently rubbed at the edges of the spine and wrappers of all three volumes, volume I more heavily, otherwise a well presented set. Paperback. Physically 9½" x 7¼" (1 kg); 95/89/83pp; Contains: Black & white photographs; Facsimiles; Colour plates; Maps; Frontispiece; ISBN: 0112901530 || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #182836|| Condition: Seller Inventory # 182836

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Title: The Pre-grouping Railways: Their Development...

Publisher: London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office

Publication Date: 1985

Binding: Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.)

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

The grouping of the railways of Great Britain under the provisions of the Railways Act of 1921 took effect on 1 January 1923, though there had been some important amalgamations just before that date. The names of the four group companies, with one exception, were new names, in which the historical and even some of the more precise geographical associations of the names of the smaller companies were lost. The one old name perpetuated was that of the Great Western Railway, a company so individualistic that it could not be joined to either of its obvious rivals, and which at the grouping absorbed, rather than amalgamated with, a large number of small companies with which its tracks were linked. The other three company groups were the Southern Railway, the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, and the London & North Eastern.