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The Railways Act 1921 did not extend to Ireland, but Irish lines owned by constituent companies became part of the LMS: Northern Counties Committee lines (NCC) 265 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (427 km) (owned by the Midland Railway) Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Railway (DNGR) 26 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (43 km) (owned by the LNWR)
Total length of the British railways at 1 January 1923 was 19,585 route miles (31,336 km). From the end of the 1920s, when it was obvious that the motor vehicle was in the ascendancy, dozens of little-used branch lines began to close: some to passenger traffic, many completely. Although few railways were constructed, some new works were undertaken.
The 1920 Tube Stock consisted of forty cars built by Cammell Laird in Nottingham, England.These cars were the first new tube cars to be built with air operated doors. The batch consisted of twenty trailer and twenty control trailer cars, which were formed into six-car trains by the addition of twenty French motor cars built in 1906 and modified for air-door operation.
The growth in road transport during the 1920s and 1930s greatly reduced revenue for the rail companies. Rail companies accused the government of favouring road haulage through the subsidised construction of roads. The railways entered a slow decline owing to a lack of investment and changes in transport policy and lifestyles.
The history of rail transport in Great Britain 1830–1922 covers the period between the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), and the Grouping, the amalgamation of almost all of Britain's many railway companies into the Big Four by the Railways Act 1921. The inaugural journey of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, by A.B ...
Great Britain's Railways: A New History (Amberley, 2018). Perkin, Harold. The age of the railway (1970) online; Reid, Douglas A. "The ‘Iron Roads' and ‘the Happiness of the Working Classes’ The Early Development and Social Significance of the Railway Excursion." Journal of Transport History 17.1 (1996): 57-73. Simmons, Jack, and Gordon ...
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British Railways, by name British Rail, the former national railway system of Great Britain, was created by the Transport Act 1947, which inaugurated public ownership of the railways. The history of rail transport also includes the history of rapid transit and arguably history of monorail.