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After grouping, it was owned half by the Southern, and one-sixth each by the LNER, Metropolitan and District. Length 5 miles (8 km). Managed and operated by Met; goods traffic by LNER. Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Committee: prior to grouping, owned by the Metropolitan Railway and GCR; post-Grouping, Metropolitan and LNER.
The Railways Act 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5.c. 55), [1] also known as the Grouping Act, was an act of Parliament enacted by the British government, and was intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, by "grouping" them into four large companies, dubbed the "Big Four". [2]
The "Big Four" was a name used to describe the four largest railway companies in the United Kingdom in the period 1923–1947. The name was coined by The Railway Magazine in its issue of February 1923: "The Big Four of the New Railway Era". The Big Four were: Great Western Railway (GWR) London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS)
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS [a]) was a British railway company.It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act 1921, [1] which required the grouping of over 120 separate railways into four.
On 10 February 1941, an express passenger train overran signals and ran into the rear of a passenger train at Harold Wood, Essex. Seven people were killed and seventeen were seriously injured. [52] On 28 April 1941, a fire broke out on an express passenger train which was brought to a stand at Westborough, Lincolnshire. The rear three carriages ...
In 1923, the Southern Railway took over 24 + 1 ⁄ 2 route miles (39.4 km) of railway electrified with overhead line at 6.7 kV, 57 route miles (92 km) of railway electrified with a third rail at 660 V DC, and the 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile (2.4 km) long underground Waterloo & City Railway. [14]
Glasgow and South Western Railway became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act 1921. Ardrossan and Johnstone Railway opened 6 November 1831; became the dual-tracked Ardrossan Railway on 23 July 1840; Bridge of Weir Railway opened 1864; Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway opened 12 August 1840. [1]
September 27 – Following soon after the washout of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's bridge over Coal Creek (near Glenrock, Wyoming), a passenger train falls through the washout, killing 30 of the train's 66 passengers. The accident is the worst railroad accident in Wyoming's history. [12]